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Author and award winning filmmaker Richard Martini has written and/or directed 9 films. A former free lance journalist for Variety, Inc.Com, Premiere and other magazines, Richard will talk about the findings of his extensive research for his best selling book Flipside: A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife (#1 at Amazon in its genre twice) his debut non-fiction book on a topic that's been haunting him since the death of a soul mate, upon which his 90 minute documentary of the same name is based. The new book It's A Wonderful Afterlife examines near death experiences, between life sessions and includes a chapter from Robert Thurman on the Death of Death.
After a dream vision of visiting his friend in the Great Beyond, Martini went on a literary quest to find out what the prevailing science and philosophical opinions on the Afterlife are. He journeyed into Tibetan Philosophy, made documentaries in Tibet and India, and eventually was introduced to the work of the Newton Institute, founded by renowned author and hypnotherapist Dr. Michael Newton (Journey of Souls). The new book includes interviews with post materialist scientists Gary Schwartz, Bruce Greyson, Mario Beauregard and examines a number of NDE's and LBLs that have remarkably similar stories about the afterlife.
He's also directed documentaries; "Tibetan Refugee"explores the Tibetan community in Dharamsala, "White City/Windy City" explores the relationship between Chicago and Casablanca in the Eisenhower "Sister Cities" program, and "Journey Into Tibet", follows Buddhist scholar and author Robert Thurman on a sacred journey around Mt. Kailash in Western Tibet. COPIES OF THE BOOK AND 90 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY "FLIPSIDE" WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.
David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?
We have bid a tearful farewell to The Good Place, NBC's hilariously inventive, yet thoughtful, take on the afterlife. The show delivered rich characters and plenty of laughs, but it also challenged us to ponder deeper questions of what it really means to be a good person. Consistently intelligent and insightful, particularly about human foibles, each season held enough surprising turns and unexpected twists to keep a typical sitcom running for twice as many seasons. But The Good Place was never a typical sitcom. I'm pleased to report that in the series finale, the writers didn't blink while grappling with (among other things) the troubling implications of an infinite afterlife for finite humans.
It soon turned out she wasn't the only person mistakenly admitted. The silent monk Jianyu (Manny Jacinto), soulmate to the rich, perpetually name-dropping socialite Tahani (Jameela Jamil), was actually a dim-witted DJ from Jacksonville, Florida. We also met Mindy St. Clair (Maribeth Monroe), a former corporate lawyer whose final act of charity (while high on cocaine) made her the sole inhabitant of the Medium Place, where everything is just kind of... okay. The season ended with a genuinely shocking twist: Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani were actually in the Bad Place; throwing them together was a novel form of torment, whereby they tortured each other. Michael was a Bad Place demon architect in disguise, and once found out, he rebooted the entire experiment, wiping the fab four's memories in the process.
S2 dug deep into the question of whether it is possible for a damned soul to become a better person after death. Eleanor kept figuring out they were really in the Bad Place for a whopping total of 803 reboots. When the demon staffers revolted, Michael joined forces with Eleanor & Company, meaning he, too, ended up studying moral philosophy under Chidi's tutelage. The many philosophers name-checked include Immanuel Kant and his categorical imperative, Aristotle, Kierkegaard, and T.M. Scanlon's seminal text What We Owe to Each Other. The series may be over, but we'll always have Chidi's brave attempt at a Kierkegaard rap, and Michael's brilliant-but-bloody simulation of the Trolley Problem.
S2 ended with another radical reset: Judge Gen (Maya Rudolph) gives the Soul Squad one more chance to become better people on Earth. It was a bold move, since Earth just isn't as interesting as the crazy surreal illogic of the show's brilliant conception of the afterlife. But S3 soon hit its stride. Among the standout moments: Michael's mind-bending mini-tutorial about how time works in the afterlife. Time isn't linear. It "doubles back and loops around," and the resulting timeline just happens to look like the signature of the name Jeremy Bearimy. (The dot over the "i" is Tuesdays. And also July. And occasionally never.)
Who could forget Chidi's momentary breakdown upon hearing this, making a huge pot of "chili" out of Peeps and candy? When Janet whisks everyone off to her void, they all take on her appearance, causing Eleanor to have an identity crisis and giving Chidi the perfect opportunity to pontificate on the philosophy of the self. (It's quite a performance from Carden, who must mimic each character's idiosyncrasies.) The scene where Eleanor and Michael debate determinism and free will is The Good Place at its best: delving into deep philosophical quandaries with intelligence and a light touch.
Then Michael learned that no human had earned enough points to get into the Good Place for more than 500 years and suspected the system was rigged, or at least hopelessly flawed. In the S3 finale, Michael convinced Judge Gen to repeat the original experiment of S1 with four new humans, chosen by the Bad Place. The Soul Squad would be on hand to assist. But there's always a catch when the Bad Place gets involved, and this one was particularly heartbreaking for fans of the Eleanor-Chidi soulmate coupling. Chidi was rebooted along with everything else, which removed his memories of Eleanor.
S4 brought everyone back to the afterlife, with all the cheesy puns and comic absurdity that comes with that goofy eternal realm. For instance, there's a magical game of Pictionary in which the drawn images come to life. It ends in utter chaos, thanks to a terrifying mutation produced by Chidi's crude drawing of a horse.
Those reboots were the key. Maybe all human beings need is more time to learn from their mistakes. In the new afterlife, all humans will have the chance to be rebooted, as many times as necessary, until they show enough improvement to earn admission to The Good Place. Bad Place and Good Place architects will collaborate on designing custom scenarios to challenge (or "torture," from the demons' perspective) each person. Shawn reluctantly agrees, and the judge approves the new system.
For saving all of humanity, the Soul Squad finally gets into the Good Place. On any other show, this might have been the perfect ending, but when Chidi meets one of his philosophical heroes, Hypatia of Alexandria (a cameo by Friends star Lisa Kudrow), we learn that an eternity of perfection is not all it's cracked up to be. The Good Place residents are frankly bored, and "Patty" (as Hypatia calls herself) mourns the loss of her once-sharp intellect due to the lack of any kind of challenge. Meanwhile, Michael is tricked into taking over the Good Place, and the former staffers flee.
This was my favorite twist of all, because let's face it: perfection is boring. It's why Dante's Inferno is far more powerful (and more widely read) than his Paradisio. It's why the first version of The Matrix failed to keep humans lost in the fantasy world; their minds couldn't accept a construct of a perfect world. Perfection for infinity proves unbearable: there's only so many times you can fulfill all your deepest desires before it just becomes run-of-the-mill. Heck, one reason Shawn agreed to Michael's original concept, and the new afterlife, was because he was bored with the usual torture. After your umpteenth penis-flattening, the joy really fades, even for a Bad Place demon.
And that is the solution to the Good Place dilemma. Michael announces that he has created one last door. Anyone in the Good Place, when they feel they are ready, can simply walk through it and end their afterlife. Maybe. What happens beyond the door remains an unknowable mystery, much like that faced by humans on Earth pondering what happens after you die. It's the fact that life ends, and we don't know what comes next, that gives our lives purpose and meaning. It's why our actions, relationships, and so forth matter so much. The episode closes with Eleanor and Chidi snuggling on the couch, watching a perfect sunset.
Many is the mother the world over who announces that she won't die happy until she has lived to see her daughter (or son) happily wed. And so, out of a familial condition that transcends ethnicity and geography comes It's a Wonderful Afterlife, the Gurinder Chadha movie that carries this shared fretfulness one step further, throwing in curry jokes as it goes. What would happen if a mum were so desperate on her daughter's behalf that she resorted to murder? The answer is best pondered as and when this London-set Indian romcom is released on DVD, at which point you can watch it in the company of your own home, a chicken tikka kebab at the ready.
That dietary staple turns out against the odds to be one of the lethal weapons by which various upstanding Southall citizens are falling over dead into their tarka dahl. ("Naan slaughter!" shriek the headlines.) What do these victims have in common? Alas, they all have either spurned or further humiliated the very available, ever self-pitying Roopi (Goldy Notay), an Asian semi-equivalent to Bridget Jones whose ailing mum, Mrs. Sethi (Shabana Azmi), won't go to her wished-for grave until she has got her daughter hitched.
For a while, no one has a clue why the local populace is perishing more quickly than you can say the word "papadum". All that's clear is Roopi's luckless love life, which isn't helped by a general awareness that she has "a bottom like a buffalo". But as the corpses mount, the cadavers form an impromptu back-up chorus of sorts to the increasingly desperate Mrs. Sethi, who leaves them trailing after her as Roopi's moods darken. Poor Roopi is "tainted goods", or so goes one theory, while another is that her failure with men may be due to the fact that she's a lesbian. (And why not?)
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