I saw "Longford" after I had lunch with the film's writer - the funny, talented, and charming Peter Morgan - a former actor with the sort of authoritative voice one finds intimidating at first blush,...
Socrates wrote, “Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.” If this is the case then we should want to know who is wearing the perfume and what deeds have they performed heroically. Not really a...
Paul Newman is dead. He died of lung cancer at age 83, at his home in Connecticut. He is survived by his wife, five children, and two grandchildren. He was one of the last of the great old stars, the...
I have bemoaned the fact that politics these days are all about gloss and image, simple statements and sound bites, with little to no room for complex thought. That it matters more whether a...
I find celebrities just a little presumptuous. Not all celebrities, really - mostly just the A-list actors. What bothers me isn’t their posturing, their preening, or their living in giant houses...
Unless you are just now joining civilization, you may have heard of a little film called "Batman: The Dark Knight." It is not the first Batman film, of course; the popular character from the comic...
As certain factions speculate that the world is headed toward a new Cold War, Mark Farnsworth examines the artistic legacy of this phenomenon. Director, screenwriter, and producer John Milius has...
As certain factions speculate that the world is headed toward a new Cold War, Mark Farnsworth examines the artistic legacy of this phenomenon. "The Thing" is the darkest film in the Kurt Russell...
When challenged to use the word horticulture in a sentence the writer, poet, and critic Dorothy Parker retorted, “You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.” Parker, the...
It feels instinctive to say that the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn marks an end of an era. Which era, though? Solzhenitsyn's life spanned many eras: WWII, the gulag, the Khrushchev years,...
