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Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
Posted on September 10, 2011 | 1 CommentIn the days before everyone's grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet's greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn't have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
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Rooster Deathmatch: John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsJeff Bridges was morally unfit to serve in any John Wayne movie precisely because he was as wild and anti-authoritarian as the Ringo Kid, except that he stayed that way.
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Real True Grit
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 2 Comments“Well, there is no beat of a good friend.” –Deputy Marshal Rooster Cogburn, in the novel, True Grit. “He is not my friend.” –Young Mattie Ross, speaking of Rooster Cogburn,... -
Towering Humanity: Turk Pipkin’s Building Hope
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 1 CommentDisabuse any inkling that Building Hope is cinematic broccoli. It’s a majestic and transformative entertainment and this documentary packs more emotional connectedness, stark naked compassion, unyielding gumption, and inspirational heft than a GooGooplex full of Hollywood fiction.
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Animal Kingdom
Posted on March 31, 2011 | No CommentsI had never heard of the Australian gem and terror of a film Animal Kingdom until Jacki Weaver was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her sweetly... -
Anlo Sepulveda’s Brilliant Film “Otis Under Sky” Premieres at SXSW Film Festival
Posted on March 8, 2011 | 1 CommentOtis Under Sky, a visually enchanting film by Austin director Anlo Sepulveda, makes its World Premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. As an Austin native who grew up roaming the... -
I’m Voting Republican…
Posted on October 6, 2010 | No CommentsI’m voting Republican because the faster we run this country into the ground, the faster we can build it back up properly. On second thought. Nah. That’s not even funny.... -
Interview with Oscar Nominated Screenwriter/Director Oren Moverman
Posted on August 24, 2010 | 4 CommentsScreenwriter Oren Moverman made his directorial debut with THE MESSENGER (2009), a film about an injured Iraq War veteran who returns home to find he has been assigned... -
I’m a Joiner
Posted on July 31, 2010 | 9 CommentsIn one scene in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, Baby (Jennifer Grey’s character) is about to go meet dashing, dangerous Johnny (played by the dear, departed Patrick Swayze), but she... -
Evangeline, the Oil Spill and Highway 61
Posted on June 14, 2010 | 5 CommentsI was 18, skinny, out of money and in New Orleans for the first time after some Appalachian adventures and a visit to Nixon’s D.C. I faked a cocky walk...