Originally published on Facebook 22 July 2014. Novelist Bel Kaufman has died. She was 103. She wrote UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE, which, for those of you who haven’t read it, was a powerful tragicomedy about a teacher’s first year in an inner-city school; better than the movie, in that it was a trendsetter in style […]
For the life of me, I will never ever understand the whiny male bitches who get upset at female protagonists in action movies. And I’m not speaking from the point of view of ideology. I’m speaking as a lover of stories, a guy who both produces and consumes them. When Laurie Strode proved the one […]
A movie thread encountered on a friend’s Facebook wall included a reply that, in all seriousness and with no leavening irony, painted THE GODFATHER and THE FRENCH CONNECTION in particular, the movies of the early seventies in general, as the dark age that STAR WARS rescued us from. Gad. God. Gad. When I reacted with […]