A friend over on Google + suggested that this riff we had going about writing and plotting would make an interesting blog post so I decided to heed her advice, and try to put this in a coherent form. This all began because I got a call from GRRM (George R.R....

I love writing scripts, and for the most part I have enjoyed my time working in Hollywood, but damn the place can be narcissistic which is why either The Artist or Hugo is probably going to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. In an earlier post I've outlined the...

I stayed up too late again last night and watched The King's Speech.  I love this movie and I will get hooked by it every time.  Happened again this morning as I was preparing breakfast.  Partly it's the performances.  Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush...

I've been invited into an anthology in my very frequent role as pinch hitter.  When somebody drops out I step in, and usually there is time pressure.  All of this is by way of background.  The real point of these musings is about the importance of...

This is what passes for soaring rhetoric from Mitt Romney.  "I  believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” Wow, I'm ready to go...

I despise Newt Gingrich.  There are a lot of reasons.  His not so subtle dog whistles to racial bias.  His ego and grandiosity.  His support for torture.  His stand on abortion rights even in the case of rape and incest. But what is really...

A rather heated discussion erupted over on my Facebook Wall when I posted about a woman in South Carolina's dog whistle statement about "Putting Juan Williams in his place."  What came out of that was one Republican's intense discomfort with the field with which...

I just heard a woman at a Newt Gingrich rally complimenting the former Speaker for "putting Juan Williams _in his place_"  Juan Williams is a black journalist. Wow.  Is he "uppity" too? I'm having a hard time believing it's 2012, and not 1912.  They're...

I loved this movie.  My love affair with John Le Carre began with his books -- Tinker Tailor and Smiley's People.  I watched the 7 part BBC mini-series with Alex Guinness, and that was amazing.  Then last night I saw this film which comes in at 2 hours...

Here is Peter Beinhart summing up Gingrich's problem with minorities and by extension the Republican party.   "I’m sure Gingrich also sees nothing offensive in calling Obama the “food stamp” president. After all, under Obama the number of people...