Hi, I’m Patrick from Los Angeles. I would like to tell you a little about myself and about my twin passions, movies, and medicine.
Originally from Ireland. I’m a medical doctor. However, I am also a passionate movie lover and have been as far back as I can remember. Growing up in Ireland, I devoured every movie that would come my way, often, over a year after it had opened in the US. During my decade of medical studies in Galway, I got a part-time position writing about movies for “In Dublin” magazine and later, I started authoring articles for “The Irish Times”, which I continued to do after I moved here in 1992.
My favorite director is Hitchcock and, fittingly, “Vertigo” is one of my two all-time favorite movies; the other is Polanski’s” Chinatown”. I recently started working fewer hours as a doctor, so I thought that I might try my hand at a Blog.
My medical specialty is Hematopathology which is the diagnosis and prognostication of cancers of the blood and bone marrow such as leukemia (both acute and chronic), lymphoma (both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin), multiple myeloma, the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)and the myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) such as CML, PV, and ET.
Recently, I have been working on clinical trials for new drugs – let’s call them SMART DRUGS, primarily for multiple myeloma but also for follicular lymphoma (FL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and an exceedingly rare blood cancer called blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN).
The SMART drugs belong to the classes of chimeric antibody receptor T-cells (CARTs), bispecific T-cell engagers (BITEs), and antibody-drug conjugates.
I have never thought of my love for such disparate disciplines as movies and medicine to be unusual or contradictory. In fact, I find them to be complementary: after all, it was my Fellowship in Hematopathology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA that brought me to Hollywood.
Coincidentally, I have always loved the Southern California sound with musicians such as Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell remaining my favorites to this day!
The blog was born during the COVID-19 isolation and has spread its wings. @TheBrownees is a play on my name. Thank you for reading this, and I hope you enjoy the blog. I can also be found on:
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Seventy Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967)
Seventy Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967) Table Summary
https://thebrownees.net/seventy-queer-films-of-the-new-hollywood-1967-1981
Seventy Queer Films of the New Hollywood (1967-1981) Table Summary
https://thebrownees.net/my-70-all-time-favorite-original-movie-scores/
My 53 All-Time Favorite Horror Movies – TheBrownees
The Great Cinematographers of Hollywood’s Golden Age – TheBrownees
Hollywood Songwriters -The Great Lyricists. – TheBrownees
Hollywood Songwriters – The Great Tunesmiths – Part 1 – TheBrownees
Hollywood Songwriters – The Great Tunesmiths – Part 2 – TheBrownees
Eight Legendary Foreign Actresses Who Did Not Make It In Hollywood. – TheBrownees
https://thebrownees.net/la-nouvelle-vague-the-french-new-wave/
https://thebrownees.net/films-directed-by-sidney-lumet/
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
The Anderson Tapes (1971) Film Review F – TheBrownees
The Group (1966) A Lost Opportunity C – TheBrownees
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
The Maltese Falcon (1941) Film Review A- TheBrownees
Sylvia Scarlet (1935) Film Review B- TheBrownees
The Women (1939) Film Review A- TheBrownees
Adam’s Rib (1949) Film Review A – TheBrownees
My Fair Lady (1964) Cukor’s Late-Career Triumph A+ – TheBrownees
Spartacus (1960) Film Review B – TheBrownees
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Film Review A – TheBrownees
Barry Lyndon (1975) Film Review A – TheBrownees
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
https://thebrownees.net/the-best-films-directed-by-elia-kazan/
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
https://thebrownees.net/the-best-films-directed-by-joseph-l-mankiewicz/
All About Eve (1950) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
Suddenly Last Summer (1959) Film Review C- TheBrownees
There Was A Crooked Man (1970) Film Review B+ – TheBrownees
The Films of Edmund Goulding – TheBrownees
https://thebrownees.net/woody-allens-oscar-nominated-screenplays/
https://thebrownees.net/best-final-movie-made-by-a-great-director/
https://thebrownees.net/the-42-most-honored-directors-in-cinema-history/
https://thebrownees.net/hitchcock-made-seven-perfect-films/
Rebecca (1940) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
Notorious (1946) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
Rear Window (1954) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
Vertigo (1958) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
North by Northwest (1959) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
Psycho (1960) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
Rope (1948) Film Review A- TheBrownees
Strangers on a Train (1951) Film Review A- TheBrownees
The Day of the Jackal (1973) Film Review A – TheBrownees
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Queer Subtext A – TheBrownees
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Film Review A- TheBrownees
Some Like it Hot (1959) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
Double Indemnity (1944) Film Review A+ – TheBrownees
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971) Film Review A- TheBrownees
