Meg Tilly Talks War Machine and her journey from the Oscar nominated tragic nun in Agnes of God to co-starring in War Machine as the invisible spouse of a deluded US Army general played by Brad Pitt, oblivious to both the reality of war and women. Tilly also touches on her best self versus her human self, suppressed identity and awareness with age, and aspiring to be the same person with everyone that she is at the grocery store.

** "The simplest thing in the world, imagine three lines in Japan, thousands of leaves of grass of our own American bard, millions of variations throughout the world - published between your ears, the simplest thing is the greatest weapon against the chaos, the fear, and war..."

Poetry Corner: Julia Stein in a conversation with eminent veteran people's poet, prophet and political visionary Jack Hirschman, alias Red Poet. The designated San Francisco Poet Laureate of 2006 reads from his work as well, referencing Hart Crane, Dylan Thomas, Joyce, Haiti, communism, Plato, the Bible, and an inspiring letter Hemingway wrote to Hirschman as a young poet. Part one.

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** "So much of the event seems to want to embrace the social ills of contemporary Europe and at the same time deny them, subsuming them in a wash of consumerist glamour."

Bro On The World Film Beat: Cannes Film Festival Wrap-Up Report. Arts Express Paris correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on location at Cannes. With its transformation into a film festival police state, metal detectors on the red carpet, and theater security forces seizing, detaining and deactivating Broe's double chocolate muffin -  as a seemingly junk food weapon of mass consumption. Along with migrants forbidden on the red carpet, the Cannes audience clapping at carnage on the screen, one inconvenient sequel, a mummified husband, and how we may now all be couch potatoes perhaps as our comeuppance.

** "The children knew there was something wrong, they all hesitated even as they were being handed those heavy semi-automatic guns or automatic guns, I don't know one gun from another - I was kind of disoriented by this madness around me, feeling like I had stepped into an alternate world."

Crime Scenes: Mayday, Mayday. Stunned and horrified investigative sleuth Jack Shalom is on the case of a seemingly secret yet public US Military tanks and weaponry spectacle in progress, discovered by chance somewhere in Brooklyn on Memorial Day. Conjuring fascism and Nazi flags unfurling, and potentially affecting vulnerable generations to come. An Arts Express undercover exclusive.

** "I think today in light of the G7, which is really the most spectacular, most conspicuous moment of political theater, we witness the absolute powerlessness of our leaders today - they are incapable of making decisions, and all they can do is sell illusions, the only response they can offer is the marketing of illusions."

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema. On the line from the film festival
unreeling at Lincoln Center is Italian director Roberto Ando, presenting his disturbing drama, The Confessions. Delving into the dark machinations of a G7 gathering, and the economic elite controlling and destroying the world. While concurring that, "We've cheated the world of hope, at least we can give them illusions."

The American Media & The Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy Review

An exhaustive, enthused and thoughfully probing inquiry into what - or rather who - may have really been behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963, John Barbour's The American Media & The Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy covers already well trodden ground in assembling his case. Nevertheless, introducing these detailed revelations to younger generations not privy to those discussions and debates over the years as older audiences have been, is a worthy and enlightening endeavor.

Emmy Award winning television host turned director Barbour revists in particular impressive evidence provided by the late Jim Garrison, then New Orleans' District Attorney from 1962-1973, implicating the CIA as behind the assassination, along with a complicit mainstream media. Less convincing is Barbour's idealizing of JFK as a determined peace president resisting the germination of the US military machine into the evolving dreaded spectacle of global conquest and genocide that it has become - and that had he not been assassinated, he could have halted this deplorable reality existing today. This speculation begs the question of JFK's demise too early to tell, not to mention presidents who have come and gone initially promoting peace - even Trump - and in the final analysis like Obama, responsible for more bombing and genocide than any preceding leader. Whether naivety, or deviousness.

Likewise, a glaring MIA elephant in the room - the profiteering corporations who have the most to gain by far from these endless wars. And, a more extensive inquiry into JFK assassination collusion with disgruntled Miami Cuban elements and those who lost their lucrative gambling and prostitution racketeering operations in Cuba as a result of JFK's decision not to follow through with a massive invasion of Cuba - like Oswald assassion Jack Ruby - would have added an intriguing and refreshing new twist. In addition to the omission of assigning credit in the film to investigative journalists in Cuba regarding this matter, who actually happen to agree with Barbour.

Prairie Miller