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About Patrick Losey

  • Michael James Kacey began his career as an actor before embracing filmmaking. He has written, directed and produced two feature films through his company Anthracite Films: "Daybreak" and "The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin." His current project, a detailed look at radio in America, is called "In The Public Interest."
NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 11, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 11, 2024

They’re dead as clay for the rights of men, For people the likes of you, And they ask that we do not fail them again Tomorrow, tomorrow.   “14 August” as published in the book “Untitled and Other Radi ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 4, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 4, 2024

Canned laughter is a form of self-praise. It has the advantage over external praise of being able to be laid on thickly and in the right places.   “Can the Laughter” from the book Holes in a Stai ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 28, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 28, 2024

But Honorable Judges, the office of pimp is performed by purveyors of distinction, since their labors gratify not merely one, but three parties; to wit, the seeker of recreation; the willing collabora ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 21, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 21, 2024

Tell him the choice rests in the care of what fragile peace we have, including his trusteeship, if he but live to his majority. One or nothing, wealth or laying waster; Jew or Gentile’ men or the colo ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 14, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 14, 2024

In addition to making little of big things, trivialization can also make big of little things. A classic example out of ancient history was the Trojan war, fought for over ten years, we are told, over ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 7, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 7, 2024

I have always suspected that war as we know it and have practiced it and as others have practiced it, that young men die of the mistakes of old men.   “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview wi ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 30, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 30, 2024

The due rank of peace is proudest above all earthly dignities. Believe it, and ensue it so.   “Not Choose Not” from the book Overkill and Megalove (1963) ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 23, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 23, 2024

The relationship between media and politics is one that is flexible and responds to the political situation. In a time of reaction, the media tend to be drugged by, influenced by, the government’s att ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 16, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 16, 2024

Mediocrity is a business, like making low-quality shirts for low-income consumers at a low price. With this important difference—mediocrity cuts across all arts and professions, all layers of society, ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 9, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 9, 2024

Sex as a source of pleasure, as distinct from its services to procreation, has been frowned upon, openly or tacitly, by the establishment. But at the same time, violence as an instrument of national p ...

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