Reading Time: 2 minutesThis opinion essay will appear in Greek in the Greek periodical Alieftika Nea A new Law The new Greek Law 5179/25, which establishes monetary fines even for end users of pirated content, brought back memories from 1981 when I was at McGill for my graduate studies. Back then Back then, Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a series of previous posts that started in January 2024, I have searched Ngram for the names of 54 iconic actors and actresses from the Hollywood era. Among them Elvis Presley has the highest fame, 53 famons. He is closely followed by Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra. Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTokyo is my favorite city. The food is excellent and there are excellent, small and cozy restaurants, both cheap and otherwise. The street food market is superb. The people are very friendly. The metro is top of the line. The streets are big Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSeoul is a modern city. It is clean and beautiful with large streets. It is dominated by modern high-rise buildings, outside of which there is always a big sculpture. There are many modern shopping malls and aquaria. The people are very nice and polite. Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesFame levels of various actors and actresses In a previous post I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The Ngram tool produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Loved the Bomb is a 1964 movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. The cast includes Peter Sellers (he plays three different roles), George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden. It enjoys a very high IMDB score of 8.4. The film Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI visited Vienna from the 29th of December till the 6th of January 2024. The New Year eve was impressive as is Vienna in general. During all these days I continuously walked throughout the city, enjoying the Viennese coffee and hot chocolate, strudels, krapfen, sachertorte, and Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie The dramatic movie The Seventh Seal was released in 1957. It was directed by Ingmar Bergman. The cast includes Max von Sydow, who has until recently participated in many blockbuster movies, Gunnar Björnstrand and Bengt Ekerot. The movie marks the turning point in Bergman’s career at which Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cinema cannot exist on a blank screen, no matter how good a 4K or 8K screen is and how deep the black is. We must project something on the screen and this something is most often a movie. Movies are a key form of art, an important source Read more