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Apr.30.2009
Seven Pounds is confusing—not because of its complex plot that leaves you bewildered for the first twenty minutes (or longer if you miss the significance of the killer jellyfish) – but because of the life and death questions it evokes. I saw the movie with a few teenagers and wondered as we sat in...
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Apr.29.2009
Okay, I admit it, I'm torn.
I'm a Trekkie...I'm a Trekkie and I've confessed as much in other forums and there's no getting around it, no twelve-step program or intervention is gonna save me. I hear about a new Star Trek movie, one that takes us back in time to where it all began and my widdle...
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Mar.19.2009
I’m glad no one took my blood pressure as I watched “The Class,” for it would have been soaring. The movie – which takes place almost completely inside a high school on the edge of Paris – is great (as nearly all reviewers agree). So it wasn’t the quality of the film that nearly gave me a stroke....
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Mar.15.2009
I’ve Loved You So Long 10 03 2009
Elsa Zylberstein and Kristin Scott Thomas
Don’t get me wrong, I love my country, but when it comes to testing the acting chops of any thespian, I’d say French cinema is the primary place to go about such measures. No...
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Feb.07.2009
Script Frenzy is nearly upon us, and the great minds at the Office of Letters and Light (more commonly known as NaNoWriMo) and their fearless leader, Chris Baty, have joyously flung open the doors of insanity and recklessness to script writers.
As with NaNoWriMo this past November, in which I had...
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Jan.12.2009
My latest column for The Frisky is called To Movie Date or Not to Movie Date? I'm pro, my interviewees are anti movie dates. What do you think? Share your thoughts at The Frisky!
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Dec.07.2008
Last night my wife came home from her part-time job as a reference librarian so worn out, even her shushing action couldn't shush. During the week, she runs a library at an all-girls high school and is deeply adored. She took the extra job not so much for the money, but for the pleasure. The South...
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Sep.15.2008
Dear All,
Please red my article
The Flight of Dragons: One of the Best Animated Films Ever
This 1982 animated film is so good but not out on DVD. It can also be a great live-action movie, and I gave casting suggestions for it. I will be making a petition for both to Warner Bros., the one who...
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Sep.12.2008
I just read in Publishers Weekly that Palgrave-Macmillan signed a contract with Sheila Isenberg for the biography of Muriel Gardiner: Her War: The True Story of an American Heiress in the Resistance against the Nazis. This was great news. I grew up spending summers on a farm outside of Princeton...
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Aug.20.2008
The last time John and I were on Topsail Island, we were having dinner in a restaurant when John suddenly said, "Do you see that waitress over there? That's Dawn."
I figured he must mean the character Dawn in my latest book, Before the Storm. I turned to look at the waitress. She was a...
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