Last night’s Colbert Report appearance proved yet again that Barack Obama could, if he chooses, handle a TV talk-show gig without too much difficulty. Or something involving public speaking and audience interaction. The really exciting thing would be if Obama ran for a seat in the House of Representatives, like John Quincy Adams did after his one-term Presidency. Or for the U.S. Senate, like JFK said he might do after leaving the White House after the end of his second term on 1.20.69.
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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