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Jessica Rieder, Writer for Leverage (TNT) and Hawaii-Five-O (CBS): Culture Makers Who Influenced the Culture Makers of TV

Jessica Rieder, Writer for Leverage (TNT) and Hawaii-Five-O (CBS): Culture Makers Who Influenced the Culture Makers of TV

With this week’s wrap of TNT’s long running series Leverage, we thought we’d repost our interview with one of the writers who helped Leverage gain such popularity. Jessica Rieder lists the writers, shows, films, and musicians who have most deeply influenced her life.

It’s a Wonderful Life and the Courage to Live (and Create Art) Idealistically

It’s a Wonderful Life and the Courage to Live (and Create Art) Idealistically

Few of us will ever get an invitation to an early screening of our life’s work like George did. Yet we will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. To be a two handed warrior is to live for that heavenly red carpet affair, not its pale imitation at the Kodak theatre. Part 3 of our annual repost of one of the most read THW series.

Capra’s Tale of a Depressed Idealist: It’s a Wonderful Life, Part 2, by Gary David Stratton, PhD

Capra’s Tale of a Depressed Idealist: It’s a Wonderful Life, Part 2, by Gary David Stratton, PhD

Part 2 of annual repost of most read series in THW’s brief history:
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) provides a wonderful expression of the complicated interplay between modern Physicalism and Idealism as life-interpreting stories in the life of its main character, George Bailey.

The Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais’ Atheism and Sentimental Hogwash: It’s a Wonderful Life, Part 1

The Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais’ Atheism and Sentimental Hogwash: It’s a Wonderful Life, Part 1

Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais’s Atheism joke and recent essay in the Wall Street Journal “Why I’m An Atheist,” provide a great background for examining an all-time great Christmas movie and one of the best defenses of Theism in Hollywood history–It’s a Wonderful Life.