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The Iron Lady

Posted on 25 January 2012

The Iron Lady is an interesting example of the limits of movie biography and the manner in which contemporary political and social trends leak into motion picture storytelling.

Starring the incomparable Meryl Streep, whose unique talent allows her to create and mimic the persona of the most challenging of female characters plucked from real life or fiction, The Iron Lady purports to tell the intimate story of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most powerful British prime ministers of recent vintage.

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Will the Tablet Kill the Novel?

Posted on 19 January 2012

The electronic punditry, with their technological, elitist mindset, is now making noises that the single-use e-readers like Kindle, Nook and the SONY Reader are merely stopgap devices that will one day merge into the tablet, offering immersion reading, like the novel requires, as merely one of a million other ways to gain "information" and fill leisure time.

They argue that a single-use device is inherently obsolete in the face of the multitasking onslaught of the tablet, which packages in one carry-around-gadget everything one needs for the fulfillment of most communication activities from video to gaming to record keeping, scheduling, shopping and most other entertainment and information requirements.

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Doing Carnage to Carnage

Posted on 19 January 2012

Some, but not all live theatrical productions transfer well into movies. The movie Carnage is one of those most unfortunate cases. When I saw the award winning play, written by Yasmina Reza on Broadway, I found myself howling with uncontrollable laughter. The movie was somewhat somber and alarmingly unfunny.

Briefly, the plot goes something like this. Two eleven year old boys get into a fight resulting in one of them being injured. The parents of the injured boy invite the parents of the alleged perpetrator to their apartment to discuss how best to reconcile the boys.

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The Artist, the Pinnacle of the Movie Maker’s Art

Posted on 13 January 2012

There is a subtle subtext in the movie, The Artist, which powerfully grabs your imagination in ways that define the essence of storytelling and the manner in which movies can reach into the emotional truth of the human condition.

Something stunningly clever is at work in the minds of the French filmmakers who have created this exquisite original that not only grabs your total attention but also encompasses the many reasons why movies have had such an enormous impact on our lives.

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Leaving Well Enough Alone: A Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Posted on 10 January 2012

I have always enjoyed the books of John le Carré and greatly admired the elegant prose, the subtle nuanced plot constructions and robust characterizations of people engaged in conspiratorial endeavors.

He was clearly a master of the narrative of the behind-the-scenes battles between the intelligence bureaucracies of the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, the latter under whose aegis he was gainfully employed for a time before being bitten by the novelist's bug.

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A Smorgasbord of Kinky Sex

Posted on 30 December 2011

Having read all three of Stieg Larsson's novel trilogy featuring his super heroine Lisbeth Salander, and having seen all three of the Swedish movies adapted from those books as well as the American version, I have arrived at one conclusion.

The Swedes win, at least when it comes to the first film adaptation of the trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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So Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

Posted on 20 December 2011

I have written often about the three questions invariably asked of authors. The first two engender simple and straightforward answers: "When do you write?" A simple answer suffices marking the time of day; the second question is "How do you write?"

Perhaps a bit of embellishment is needed on that one, although many of the writers I have talked with reveal their preference for the computer, with some still hacking away on old manual or electric typewriters or writing by hand. Not that it really matters in terms of quality. I use a computer.

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The David Embrace

Flanagan's Dolls

The Womanizer

Residue

Empty Treasures

Funny Boys

The Children of the Roses

Cult

Mourning Glory

The War of the Roses

Random Hearts

Trans-Siberian Express

The Casanova Embrace

Blood Ties

Natural Enemies

Banquet Before Dawn

The Housewife Blues

Madeline's Miracles

We Are Holding the President Hostage

Private Lies

Twilight Child

The Henderson Equation

Undertow

Warren Adler Short Story Contest Winners

New York Echoes

The Sunset Gang

Never Too Late for Love

Jackson Hole - Uneasy Eden

The Washington Dossier Stories

American Quartet

American Sextet

Death of a Washington Madame

The Witch of Watergate

Senator Love

Immaculate Deception

The Ties That Bind

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