A Late Starter Dawdling Through Life
The Wizard of Oz is a great movie. No question. Like most people who grew up on it in the age of television, I’ve probably seen it close to a hundred times. It’s an Easter perennial, like The Ten Commandments … Continued
I’ll miss Gene Wilder. And my five year old daughter, whether she knows it or not, will miss him as well. To her, he’s Willy Wonka, the star of a movie she watched for the first time at the beginning … Continued
Nearly forty years ago, I rode two separate buses to get from my house to a movie theater several towns away where the original Star Wars was playing. Since there were two theaters in downtown Rockville Centre, this was no … Continued
Imagine for a moment that the film Boyhood did not take place over a twelve year period. Imagine instead that the film’s director, Richard Linklater, filmed the movie over three months, and that instead of using the same children and … Continued
I’m starting to shake. It hasn’t been long, but I feel jittery and nervous. My stomach’s a wreck. When my wife asks me a question, I snap at her. When my daughter wants to play, I brush her off. I … Continued