Todd Jacobucci

I was surfing channels yesterday and came upon a film from 1997, "Good Will Hunting".   This was a critically lauded movie.  I hadn't seen it in years.  I happened to catch it just when the scene begins that Robin Williams' (Dr. Sean Maguire) character initially meets Matt Damon's character (Will Hunting).  Williams steals the scene - he's outstanding.  I was inspired  to finish the film.  Unquestionably a very good movie - however, to me, Robin Williams performance stands out. I was aware that he won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance.    I thought, I wonder if I can find another Best Supporting Actor victory in the decade of the 1990s that tops his.  I could not.  I decided to go back to the 1970s and do a decade by decade study of Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winners all the way up to the 2010s.   Could I come up with one performance from each decade that stood out above the rest?  I believe I have.  Here is what I came up wi

Yes, I am 53 years old and yes I still work out.  I do some form of exercise every single day of my life.  I've been involved in some kind of exercise program since I was 16.   This isn't particularly relevant, what I do think is relevant though and may be helpful to other individuals out there that are physically fitness minded as myself, are the changes that need to be made as you get older. You must change your routine as you get older, its as simple as that - if you dont, you will end up hurting yourself.  I have found I can basically do all of the same things I did as a young man - the only difference is Ive changed how I do it.  So, I will explain the differences. Weightlifting:  As a young man I lifted weights every other day.  I lifted year round.  As the year would go on I would increase the amount of weight I was lifting.   I did many different types of weightlifting exercises (all for upper body strength), always going for 3 sets of ten with each.  I also did chi

Isn't that an interesting question??  Its an especially interesting question if you are from Generation X as I am.    Why?  Well, because if you are from Generation X , Pamela Smart is a contemporary - someone that you are going to be able to relate to much more because you are from the same age group.   And there's much more.   I don't know if most people remember but neither the OJ case nor the Menendez Brothers case was the first nationally televised trial that turned into a media circus - the very first and original circus was the Pamela Smart case.   It was a big time story in that place in time, the early 1990s.  It was the first introduction to Court TV.   And certainly, it was fascinating.   Pamela, a married Media Coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in New Hampshire faces off against a bunch of teenagers that killed her husband and blamed her for it.  Who was right?   Who was wrong?      If we go back to that place in time,  I was 100% anti-Pamela Smart.  I th