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About Tom Tangney
By day, you can hear Tom on Seattle's Morning News, and by night, he sits in the dark, making snide comments about what he sees on the silver screen.-
April 24, 2013 @ 7:30 am
Even terrorists have families
The Tsarnaev family is now nationally, even internationally, notorious. While investigators around the globe look into whether family members have any ties to terrorist networks, I've become fascinated with the family dynamics at work behind the scenes. Continue reading > -
April 23, 2013 @ 9:24 am
Man in a Garbage Can
It's relatively rare for an established Seattle art gallery to host a painter's first-ever commercial exhibition. But it's almost unheard of for an unknown artist to break into the art world at the age David Byrd finds himself to be. Continue reading > -
April 22, 2013 @ 11:07 am
Photos: Tom's trip to South Africa
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April 19, 2013 @ 7:03 am
'Oblivion' is very satisfying entertainment
Tom Cruise's specialty is big budget action movies and his latest venture comes with a sci-fi twist. Continue reading > -
April 17, 2013 @ 8:41 am
'The Central Park Five' not your typical Ken Burns movie
Ken Burns tends to make masterful but rather deliberately paced documentaries, long contemplative series about the Civil War, or baseball, or National Parks. Continue reading > -
April 16, 2013 @ 9:16 am
Stories of family tragedies emerge from Boston marathon bombing
One of the most heartbreaking stories to emerge from Monday's terror attack at the Boston Marathon so far concerns the 8-year-old boy who died. Continue reading > -
April 12, 2013 @ 7:30 am
Director Danny Boyle is a master, but 'Trance' is not his masterpiece
Danny Boyle is certainly Great Britain's best known movie director, having won an Oscar for "Slumdog Millionaire" and is the mastermind who staged the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics. Continue reading > -
April 10, 2013 @ 6:35 am
New book 'Vatican Diaries' full of surprising revelations
This new book on the Vatican has it all. Sex scandals, both gay and straight; back-stabbing Cardinals and backroom power politics; petty turf wars and rhetorical gaffes; financial mismanagement and kickbacks, even personal papal peccadilloes. Continue reading > -
April 8, 2013 @ 12:18 pm
Remembering Margaret Thatcher with a little help from BAFTA winner Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep won her most recent Oscar for portraying Margaret Thatcher in the movie "The Iron Lady." Continue reading > -
April 5, 2013 @ 10:31 am
Ryan Gosling's favorite director?
Actor and heartthrob Ryan Gosling is very much in demand in Hollywood these days. But a young and up-and-coming director named Derek Cianfrance has snagged him TWICE. Continue reading >











