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What am I supposed to say that everyone doesn’t already know? Robert Redford, in so many of the important ways, was that guy, always was that guy, and now that he…
Forty years ago, this week, a movie that in many ways belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of misguided ‘80s fantasy/camp/delusion/propaganda (along with Top Gun, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Scarface) as films…
On Art Monsters & Immortality i. It continues to be a joy and honor to have my work appear –alongside so many excellent writers– in Exterminating Angel Press. The theme of…
Nice to see some great tributes to Val Kilmer rolling in (and this one in particular, by Esther Zuckerman in the New York Times, where she offers the astute and, to me,…
Once upon a time when I was sixteen I had the great good fortune to be driving my father's car when the alternator died (making it, at least initially, my…
It's going to be all The Shining all the time, but the lead sentence of Shelley Duvall's obit should be that she appeared in 3 Women and Annie Hall *in…
I was the ideal demographic: alive while he thrived on Saturday Night Live, old enough to catch Animal House on cable, young enough to think The Blues Brothers were amazing…
Curb Your Enthusiasm has been a ceaseless source of joy for me the last two decades, and my capacity to revisit certain episodes (in general) and specific scenes (in particular)…
Boy has America gotten a lot of mileage congratulating itself for being a big, diverse, inclusive land of opportunity. The American Dream as melting pot, wherein our differences don't define…
Sean Murphy