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Opera vs. Cinema: It’s not a Remake, it’s Reimagined

It was Milos Foreman’s “Amadeus” that introduced me to classical music. The film is like an appetizer platter, offering its […]

Every time I go into Barnes and Noble, I am sorely tempted to purchase one of their coffee mugs. It’s […]

Ahh, the film franchise. A popular film with interesting characters and a decent premise soon spawns a sequel, then becomes […]

I purchased this blog last year on a Black Friday whim, thinking it might motivate me to finish my novel. […]

Deep in their egomaniacal hearts, most writers like to believe they have talent. But it’s not enough to *know* you […]

When I first created this blog, I thought to myself “This will be a fun way to reflect on my […]

Before he passed away, the great film critic Roger Ebert started (but did not finish) a short story entitled “The […]

Perhaps my earliest memory of Roger Ebert comes from an episode of “Sesame Street”, in which the bespectacled critic got […]

All too often, a funny thing happens on the way out of the movie theatre: a friend or family member […]

There it was, sitting in boldface type: an unopened email bearing the name of the first contest I had entered […]