Terrible writing will strangle a great concept in its crib and you’ll be left there weeping. Many writers advise to build a novel, script, or short story from the character outward. I agree completely. We have to like the guy or gal we’re riding piggyback with or nothing will pan ...
Over the last near-decade, this site has been a place for me to talk about movies as I watch “the canon,” whatever that means, and 2022 was the first time since I started doing this that we got a release of theSight and Soundlist of director and critic top filmsof the decade. I...
I believe we rented their house for a couple months in 1958 before we moved into our house in Hollywood, Florida. I think this might be Alice and John on the left, but I’m not sure. The other man was named Ollie. But that’s all I know. The next photo might be the last photo...
Even when we went there was a bit of a mismatch between the location and crowd and the kitchen. This was good cooking. But outside the restaurant was one of those “Hollywood crowds” of very young people undressed to kill. The music was loud. The default service seemed to revolve around...
This was not the only time this tactic had to be used with Universal. With all the “everyone grab your stuff and head to the office at the other end of the hall” moments, I don’t know how we even finished the game. But we didn’t win every battle. Crash’s girlfriend Tawna ...
s profound case of historical amnesia, we might have both candidates rather than just one making the case for turning the page on a too long period of division that too often boils over in rage. In a better world, we would remember the still unfinished business of the Civil Rights Act,...
As they used to say, things are tough all over. Everybody could use a little fun. So today we’re just going to have a silly visit with the Scoobies — Velma and Daphne. ♣ ♣ ♣ Daphne: Jeepers, Velma! What the catscratch is that supposed to be? Velma: I’m learning to ...
At the time, Manhattan College was in the process of erecting a twelve-story student residence overlooking Van Cortlandt Park, and we wouldgather with our JHS palsat the construction site on weekends, running around the unfinished edifice with automatic squirt guns, playing out the movie’s gleef...
She was actually doing Tunisian crochet, which she has taught herself THE NIGHT BEFORE WE ARRIVED!!! (The project on the left is her first project. The project on the right is the fancy crochet she started the night before we arrived). If she was a huggy type person, I would have flu...
Consider every time you’ve left unfinished strokes, gray ideas over top solid shapes, quick side queries, blank spaces, wobbly lines and figures. Happens all the time, right? These indeterminacies, or“flaws,” which reflect our indecision, are great pointers to new design directions. We los...