If someone tells you online or in person that he’s just read a book by a given writer and pronounces it superior, you cannot win an argument about the quality of the writer by declaring that you gave up reading that writer’s works twenty years ago, and especially not if you hated one book that […]
As President-Elect, Donald Trump is already demonstrating that he has absolutely no idea how to ignore or finesse a small embarrassment until it goes away, and giving those of us appalled by his election reason to hope for the results when, as happens to all Presidents, he suffers a major public relations crisis. Now he’s […]
Taking a necessary break from watching a movie I know practically by heart, Billy Wilder’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY. (Had stuff to do that needed to be done right away.) And before I get back to it, this observation, complete with SPOILER WARNING for what I hope will be the very few of you who haven’t encountered […]