going to one's grave unrepentant & RIGHT! Unlike McNamara, who grieved his mistakes and the lives they cost, Donald Rumsfeld is driven like a rivet in rectitude and will die that way. because in his personal code that is the most important thing. this is the zeitgeist. the last refuge from powerlessness is in being…
Read morethe reason why movies fail to move
I think has something to do with the McKee-ization of cinema.Everyone's got the formula down pat, the herky jerky elaboration of plotSo that the elements are an afterthought, plug them inKind of like how Henry Kissinger viewed people, or populations, whole countriesas elements of realpolitik to be manipulatedthe currency must be a given, gotten out…
Read moremovie: guy gets fired
only job listing is motivational speakercan't do itsomeone gives him a pilltransforms his personalitydoes it
Read morethe helplessness of liberals facing the tea party evil unfolding
has to do with some feeling that it's their fault. they took their eye off the ball during the Clinton years and let this unaddressed pain and its ignorant hateful expression metastasize.
Read morePolanski’s The Ghost Writer
In an interview he called it a film for adults. I think it was fun and suspenseful, a Hitchcock type of strength, but not for adults, not in the real sense. It's not a real film, just an entertainment, like Scorsese's Shutter Island was–in fact, they share a lot — must be zeitgeist. Great filmmaking…
Read morea celebrity
whose children have become screwed up porn stars just wants to lose himself in provincial Chekhovian world where nobody knows he's famous
Read morefuckups
the comforting thought sometimes that others are too
Read moreforces militating against art in the world
are like thugs keeping doctors from ministering to patients in critical condition
Read moreBeing Right, the last refuge
as the world burns, be unrepentant, never a misstep, never having been wrong. a kind of coccooning. everyone does it, from enviros to tea partiers. anodizing ourselves. anodyne more like.
Read moreHyena Rule
Don't a be a hyena. A snickering wound licking scampering opinionator.
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