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Glenn Kenny says ...

Thanks for the link, it's an awfully good piece and I can't wait to read the whole thing.

Scorsese has really grown into a wonderful writer. I remember back in late '89, I commissioned an essay from him for the magazine "Video Review," and he wasn't quite so confident in his prose skills, so we did it in an "as told to" style.

About ten years later, at Premiere, I asked him for a consideration of the recently departed Robert Mitchum and James Stewart, and he flew solo. The piece he gave me, "The Men Who Knew Too Much," was beautiful, and went into the magazine with nary a comma touched. I believe it was later anthologized in that year's "Best Film Writing" series.

I'm so proud of him!

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Joshua Mooney says ...

G.K.: I remember "Video Review" very well. I liked it tremendously. We had a subscription at the Movieline offices.

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The Hoyk says ...

As a kid beginning a movie obsession, what made me fall in love with Scorsese was that while he was the arthouse darling at the time (Siskel & Ebert constantly championing him), he did a print ad for Mitsubishi TVs - in fact I think I saw it in Video Review - where he discussed how the first few years of Johnny Carson on "THE TONIGHT SHOW" were lost. The notion that a great artist valued something so seemingly ordinary to me at the time meant that he was a grounded man of the world and not an ivory tower type - granted, I was only 12, so I wouldn't use those big words - and so I began a lifelong love affair.

Now that WOODSTOCK is out, any chance of a remastered WOLFEN? I heard a rumor that Wadleigh recorded a commentary for it long ago and it was dropped by WB.

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MikeSchaeferSF says ...

Wolfen is one of the great lost fiilms of the '80s -- speaking of Siskel & Ebert, whose raves about it got me into the theater at the time.

It hardly ever shows up on TV, while AMC shows every crappy Death Wish sequel multiple times each month.