Out of the two US presidential candidates which one do you think is worse, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?
Strange as it may sound, the question evokes in me a conflict between my gut and my heart. My gut reaction is the country is going into a period of anarchy where the better angels of our nature are betrayed and lost from sight. In that country, I suppose someone like Donald Trump is the better president, although I’m at a loss to say why.I don’t see Trump holding the country together, unifying or building. He seems intent on doing the exact opposite. I do see his movement as a reaction to the excesses of political correctness but for all the rhetoric, that seems trivial.Hillary I see as the president if I feel the country will last another hundred years. That there will be a United States to lead the world further in the directions of the Founders and the Age of Reason. That may sound opposite or obtuse to some who’ve internalized the rhetoric of Originalists, but I feel and think it’s accurate.The conflict between these two impressions sorrows me overall.
How do you find out if someone has died?
I have found that Googling their names can be helpful. Try putting the name with the word “obituary” in the search. Browsing through free online obituaries in the cities or states where you have known them to live can help. You can also try Facebook. There are many sources available. You will get some free information this way but you will also see paid sites pop up. These are businesses that will get all the information you want on an individual but will charge a fee. When first visiting them, they get you to put in all kinds of information and when you get to the next page they hit you with the necessity of signing up and paying for the service. Avoid these if you are just looking for death confirmation. It should not be that hard to find.
Why don't we screen old movies in cinema?
There actually are some theaters here and there in the nation that show older films. As Fred notes in his answer, New York and Los Angeles for example have theaters that regularly show older films, even silent films in fact. They are few and far between, but at least they do still exist. I had the great pleasure of seeing Taxi Driver at a theater in New York last year, the first time I've seen it on the big screen with an entire audience around, and it was awesome.Today, the reason most theaters don't show old movies is due to a large number of factors, but the most obvious one is MONEY. If you put even a very well-liked and famous film in a theater alongside the newest movie releases, the newer film is going to make more money. Far, far more money.There are a few rare exceptions, like for example old Disney classic films that sometimes get re-released, or the Star Wars (creative franchise) films. But for truly "old" films, there isn't much market for them in theaters when you can watch them on cable TV or DVD for much cheaper, and since most of the audiences want to see new content.A significant factor in why there isn't a larger audience for older films in theaters also relates to expectations. Audiences nowadays are used to certain things, in terms of effects, camera work, color, and other aspects that change over time. What were definitely great advances and effects and brilliant innovations in filmmaking at their own time have become common and improved upon over the many decades, too. Some of us can love and appreciate how great War of the Worlds (1953 version) was, but to some younger audiences weaned on Star Wars it's perhaps not going to have the same impact.Our sensibilities are such that older films lacking profanity and with more overall comparatively chaste sensibilities likewise cannot compete for the attentions of jaded audiences, either.There are also licensing issues, deals with studios, and other reasons that are less obvious. And then there's the upcoming problem -- theaters are switching over to digital-only projectors, so after the next couple of years most theaters won't even have film projectors anymore. Since most older films are not converted to digital and won't be converted, those films will eventually be lost to us for theatrical viewing anyway.