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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 July 12, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 12, 2015

It slanders hell to compare it to war, because the hell of mythology and religion, although superheated and stocked with torments, are in their way, discreet and proper. Only the wicked are punished. ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 5, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 5, 2015

The ultimate in trivialization is to reduce the capacity and will of people to think for themselves. In that exercise mediocritization has always had its strongest support, corroboration and collabora ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 28, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 28, 2015

And greetings, immigrant multitudes who were bid good morrows and good fortune by the Statue—the millions who came, saw, toiled and begat, who created as descent a society as ever this venerable world ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 21, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 21, 2015

I never have an outline before I begin. It’s all chaos.   From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994)   ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 14, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 14, 2015

Broadcasters are invariably miffed by criticism of their product and practices, and they protest as invariably that they are only giving people what they want. But the people have been conditioned to ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 7, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 7, 2015

We communicate by words that were minted, wrought, jointed, conjugated, inflected by workers in language.   “More Fun than Fun” from the book “Holes in a Stained Glass Window” (1978)   ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 31, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 31, 2015

Beaches without beachheads. Jobs without sergeants. Gunners who tilted the guns of battleships and stoked them in epic combat, will ride the level ferries of bay and river.   “Fifty Years After 1 ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 24, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 24, 2015

They’ve given their noons to their country, They’ve trusted their girls to you. They are face to face with an ally’s earth For a bunch of tomorrows. “14 August” broadcast August 14, 1945 on CBS ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 17, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 17, 2015

Man is the only animal that smiles, and Americans are the only people who have made an industry of it.   “Ready, Aim, Smile ” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 10, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 10, 2015

However, in the matter of the kid who used to deliver folded newspapers to your doorstep, flipping them sideways from his bicycle, And who died on a jeep in the Ruhr, There is no fixed price, and no a ...

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