“King notes with some amusement that he has been around so long that kids who read and loved him in the 1970s now run publishing houses and newspapers; he is revered, these days, as a grand old man of American letters.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Disney Parts Ways With Jerry Bruckheimer After 22 Loud, Money-Making Years
Does this mean the Pirates of the Caribbean will *finally* end?
Did Italy Save The American Western?
“In his mind, Leone saw a movie that would restore to this once-mighty form … its grit, epic grandeur and irresistible danger. Leone felt that the American western had lost its way of late, and that the movie he’d make might point the way back.” (It did.)
Hey Book Censors, What’s Your Problem With Happy Endings?
“Novels — especially ones featuring adventurous, pleasure seeking heroines — were looked at askance. They could tempt a woman to escape the house and explore life on her own terms — and where would it all end?”
What’s The Matter With Paris? (And, How Can The French Fix It?)
“The vibrancy that made the City of Light the preferred destination for exiled and expatriate artists and intellectuals has dimmed. Parisian teens dream of Brooklyn, not the other way around.”
Hey Supposedly Wonderful Streaming World, Where’s Your Data?
“Movies tumble into ‘analytic black holes’ when they are viewed on subscription services like Netflix, on-demand providers like the cable companies and iTunes, or an advertising-driven distributor like SnagFilm.”
Hollywood, Slouching Toward Digital
Filmmakers “see direct distribution as the future, but they worry about how it will impact the viewing experience.”
English: It’s Not Just For The English, Obviously
Novelists from the former British colonies “are no longer the exotic outsiders that add colour (literally as well as figuratively) to the British norm. They are the new normal.”
J.D. Salinger Was No Embodiment Of Purity
“His was a seduction played out with words and ideas, not lovemaking, but to the young girl reading those words — as with a few million other readers — there could have been no more powerful allure.”
Will George Lucas Win His Bid To Build A Museum At The Presidio?
“Should San Francisco reject his latest proposal, Mr. Lucas is threatening to build his pop-culture palace in Chicago.”