“I create my own reality,” she says when he says something about something being real and having to be faced. She’s a new character on a TV show called Mercy; she’s t... Read more
I doubt that President Obama will adopt the line “Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation” as he and his party head toward the November Congressional elections. But Julia Roberts’... Read more
The President I am in no way disposed to argue in some timeless/placeless way the concepts of just war or the virtues of turning the other cheek or the meaning of Matthew 10:34: “I have come... Read more
Nick Schager, in a review of Crazy Heart which registers the magnetic charm of the Jeff Bridges’s character, calls Bad Blake, Bridges’s character, “a jalopy of a man,” a “dilapidated has-bee... Read more
For Americans, the aughts began with the fearful Y2K and ended on Christmas Day 2009 with a terrorist attack, thankfully failed, on board a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit. Call these ‘macro... Read more
Perhaps this lone vigilante Dexter, who cleans up—that is, ritualistically kills and dismembers the mess that our system of justice creates and cannot clean up itself—and who constrains his... Read more
Let’s get the obvious —not out of the way— but listed: Who wants to be “up in the air” after another Islamic terrorist managed to board Flight 253 and almost blow it up on Christmas day? Cou... Read more
The Existing Conditions I believe this is mandatory – to set the surrounding scene of present existing conditions – even if one is dealing with a TV show about a Hell’s Angels-like club of b... Read more