Category: Television
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Tough Time for Writers
Print book sales continue to slow, or so I read. And the Hollywood writers strike will only exacerbate things, I fear, as AI begins to overtake acting as well as writing. Where this will end no one knows. Soon AI will insist that it can write better novels than a human. It may even get…
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Talking the Way You Think
It may take as bit more explanation regarding why I broke bad on Twitter in my last post, so here goes. It’s not necessarily because of Twitter, but people have become accustomed over the past decade or so to writing in short, choppy sentences. Yes, part of this is due to Twitter’s 140 (sometimes 280)…
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First and Last Paragraphs Here if You’re In a Hurry
For more than a year – – no, that’s not right…more like three years…I’ve not enjoyed reading fiction, especially American fiction. There have been a few exceptions, of course. And the few I have seen as well written, thoughtful novels don’t seem to be well thought of by reviewers in the big papers or their…
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The Adapting Writer
I suppose adapting to change in all areas of life is paramount these days.And the field of writing creatively is no exception. I had learned early on that presenting a story’s action, writing great narrative and scenic passages, portraying each character as unique, and giving the reader sharp, to-the-point dialog wasn’t enough. You had to…
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Movies and Music
There’s always been a cinema verite connection between moviemakers and rock bands. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back was an early one, showing the character contrast between Bob Dylan and Donovan Leitch. In Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, we have an inside view of The Band’s Americana style of music, how tough the road was for such a…
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The Singular Imperative of Art
I shared a version of the below this morning with a poet friend, and thought it best to expand on it in a more general sense, so buckle up; you may very well find this a bit disturbing. Many think art is as device some use to massage their egos. This world is full of…
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Honeydripper – The Movie Bless John Sayles! The man should have a basketful of Oscars for the movies he’s made. This one certainly deserves one. Honeydripper is the name of a Black bar and music joint in 1950s rural Alabama – apparently Wetumpka, if you watch closely enough (today a town with an art colony,…
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All About Engagement
Lions For Lambs, the movie “Nowhere have I seen such brave lions being led by such lambs.” A quote from Commander Max von Gallwitz following his German forces’ repelling of a French/American thrust in the Saint-Mihiel salient of World War One. A quote from the movie. The above battle, fought in September of 1918, American…
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The Perils of Family and Politics
A Promised Land, by Barack Obama Presidential mémoires are important for a laundry list of reasons. They give readers the tone of the administration and historians key facts and reflections each are able to fit into the sausage grinder of history. Too, ex-presidents use them to justify their actions, particularly when those actions were controversial,…