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Speaking of Kenneth Turan, LA Times movies critic, here’s a 1-minute video of him in Cannes, moments after emerging from the world premiere today of the latest installment in the Indiana Jones saga. Sounds like a big thumbs up!  Raiders of the Lost Ark is such fantastic entertainment

In his review of Iron Man in the LA Times (5/1/08), film critic Kenneth Turan complained about the movie’s lack of “dramatic unity,” and he thinks he’s figured out one big reason why: “Though this feeling is inescapable throughout the film, a key part of the

“When you’re in love with a married man, you shouldn’t wear mascara.”  — Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), The Apartment (1960), written by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond Comment Archive

For a few years, Kurt Brown and I have sent each other ‘poems’ comprised solely of computer spam subject lines. The point, if there is one, is that these ditties say something about contemporary culture — or maybe not. Here’s Kurt’s latest effort: STARS FORETELL THE BEST OF LIFE

“I’d like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him.”  — Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding (Morgan Freeman), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), screenplay by Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen

It might seem to be an odd place to start a conversation about writing — a book published in 1923 by philosopher Martin Buber — but the more I write, the more I become convinced of the value of Buber’s ideas to the creative process. In his book “I and Thou,