Norman Corwin

Even though we have not seen this film yet,
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
is doqublogs' favored choice to win the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 2006. Not that it will, just that we want it too. For the record, the other nominees in the most elusive and excluded Oscar pool category are: The Mushroom Club, The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club, and God Sleeps in Rwanda. For the record, we haven't seen any of them either. doqublog was born in part to see if the blogosphere is powerful enough to push a film very few have ever heard of to the one everybody has to see. Including me.

At this point, doqublog makes its first link to hughhewitt.com Future posts will elaborate on doqublog's close connection to Hugh Hewitt "the man so nice, they named him twice" and the epitome of what "Bop" (our pet name for my very best friend Whitney's father, Presbyterian minister Reverend Dr. Benjamin J. Lake) would refer to as "a gentleman and a scholar." Hugh is a nationally syndicated talk radio host on the Salem Radio Network and broadcasts locally in doqublog's media market on KRLA 870am. Most Fridays, Hugh devotes the final blocks of his broadcast week to the 'movie hour,' a lively rhetorical roundabout with resident silver screen scholar Emmet of the Unblinking Eye. During this segment, Emmet discloses his specially selected "top ten list" of theatrically released films in a category chosen by Mr. H. These categories have ranged from "train movies," "films involving Vermont" and "obsessed fan films."

Sometime around the bottom of the hour, engineer Adam Youngman hits the button storing the drum roll and rimshot effect, and Emmet announces "the #1 --[fill in the frame]-- movie of all time. When Hugh opens the lines to callers to complement, criticize, change, or contribute to the list, it is customary for the doqubloger to contact producer Generalissimo Duane (a.k.a. radioblogger) to be put on the board as "Mark in Mid-Wilshire" to add an interesting documentary film title or two that fit with the list of the Unblinking Eye's regularly reasonable rankings.

The story of how the doqublogger became a familiar phone-inner during the movie hour of Hugh's show goes back a decade and may appear in a future post. No guarantees. Blogs and radio shows are a one day at a time. doqublog is now here in the blogosphere but right here is just getting started. Please stay tuned while we tune.

If you find yourself reading this now, please click this link to the official website of
Norman Corwin and listen to the three and a half minute audio excerpt of his legendary VE day radio broadcast. I am very curious to find out how many people know the name Norman Corwin, have heard any part of "A Note of Triumph," or are moved now discovering his century long biography, deft wordcraft, and precient-perfect prose. doqublog hereby seeds the February Oscar blogswarm to support this decidedly deserved Acadamy Award nomination honored documentary film.

A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin