So my wife says: “Martin Scorsese made a comedy?” Yes, well, but it’s a dark comedy.
It’s called After Hours (1985), and Scorsese directed it after studio bosses canceled his long-dreamed-of project to film The Last Temptation of Christ. He received that devastating news just as he was setting up shop near Jerusalem, and, in the [...]
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Downtown Loco
Posted in Movies on 10 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Getting to Be a Habit
Posted in Movies on 6 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A little more than halfway through the classic Hollywood musical 42nd Street (1933), Mohandas K. Gandhi makes a quick cameo appearance. That is, I think it’s Gandhi, or rather an actor playing him. I don’t know who else a middle-aged white man, made swarthy by make-up, wearing big round eyeglasses on his nose and only [...]
“Bingo” Was Its Name
Posted in Movies on 26 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For years now, I’ve been playing Scrabble with my wife, and usually losing to her, often because of her ability (which I lack) to deploy all seven of her letters in one move—a feat that carries a 50-point bonus and leaves lesser players (me, anyway) fumbling with their little wooden tiles and joking lamely about [...]
School of Hard Knocks
Posted in Crime Fiction, Movies on 23 April 2007 | 1 Comment »
High school, as everyone knows, is a sterile-fecund, thrilling-deadening, freedom-graced prison house, a place that we can’t wait to escape, right up to the point when we do escape it and then can’t wait to return. We struggle there to carve a path to adulthood, and then spend our adult lives pining for the warm, [...]
