Diary

Watching the Supreme Court for 30 Years

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LINDA GREENHOUSE covered the Supreme Court for the NY Times during the past 30 years. The review of her experience is a great read and a superb civics lesson. 2,691 Decisions By LINDA GREENHOUSE (NY Times) WASHINGTON But not this year. I am retiring from The New York Times to write and teach at Yale Law School. So this image [Read More]
Movies, Phantasy

Penelope

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My expectations about this airplane film were modest. A family is cursed and the fist female bay will be born with a pig’s nose. Ok. A little children’s movie. Yet to my surprise Penelope is one of the most clever films I have seen in a while. It is Cinderella, Romeo and Julia, Miss Piggy image [Read More]
Diary

Where has Obama’s Magic Gone?

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The last couple of weeks my excitement about Obama’s candidacy has cooled considerably. BOB HERBERT (NY Times) has articulated well what is bothering people like me. I wonder whether the fund-raising machine will work without a message that is one of change rather than putting together a convenience coalition. Obama has stumbled before and come image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

We Own the Night

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We Own the Night transports you back into the disco era. Drugs were a big part the Studio 54 scene (I visited famous disco once before it closed and marveled about Grace Jones’s rooftop haircut). One son of a family of senior police officials son a night club. Before long he has to choose image [Read More]
Humor, People

An Ideal Husband

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To fully appreciate this story you have to know that Oscar Wilde wrote over a hundred years ago the comedy “An Ideal Husband,” and later on was thrown into prison because of a homosexual relationship. Maureen Dowd, the writer of the column, as far as I remember is single, and once remarked about her own image [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry reminded me of an episode of the Love Boat in the 1980s.  After yet another romantic disappointment, a lady decides that she had it with men. She meets a notorious womanizer on the boat. To get the woman “into the sack”, the gigolo plays the role of a image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

I am not there

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About three years ago I acquired a collection of the best Bob Dylan records. I was surprised how many songs I knew, reminding me just how influential Dylan’s music had been during the past four decades. I am not there is an artistic experiment that manages to be a total failure. Todd Haynes wants to image [Read More]