West Side Story has always been one of my favorite films. For someone who generally doesn’t like musicals that’s saying alot. Of course it wasn’t born a movie. That didn’t come along until 4 years later. It was conceived as a new kind of Broadway musical. As it turns 50 this year I’m remembering what […]
On the occasion of the October release of “Atonement” a film adapted from Ian McEwans award winning book, I discuss the origins of creative work and the question of plagiarism and share a 2002 audio interview with the author himself.
For those who don’t know her, Svetlana Maksimovroskrakghaya is the global “escort” to the rich and infamous. This week her clients include Andersen Cooper, General David Petraeus, and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Fresh from the Toronto Film Festival she rips the new Brad Pitt movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as […]
Harry Potter director Alphonso Cuaron turned a request for a book blurb into an award winnng film. Meet the author of The Shock Doctrine and see the entire film now!
On the heels of the long awaited progress report on the troop surge in Iraq comes a potential cure for the collective amnesia that allows politicians and their appointees to revise history as it suits them. In a reply to L. Paul Bremer III’s simultaneous denial and defense (what an odd combination) of his dismantling […]
