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Robert Towne Was A Master For the Ages; the obit for IndieWire

Towne and Jack Nicholson (here as Jake Gittes in "Chinatown") met in an acting class in the Sixties

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The Biggest Fool That’s Ever Hit the Big Time

The Biggest Fool That’s Ever Hit the Big Time

“Might win an Oscar, you can’t never tell…” Buck Owens, “Act Naturally” “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true...mass propaganda discovered that its

David Lynch Was "A Designer, Builder, Artist" Says His Brother in Art Jack Fisk

David Lynch Was "A Designer, Builder, Artist" Says His Brother in Art Jack Fisk

The painful news of David Lynch’s passing this week brought forth a reaction from film people that was both reverential and slightly stunned. The community had known for some time that he was suffering from disabling emphysema, as he advised even as he cited hopes for the future: “I

Saoirse Ronan, in "The Outrun", "Rides It Like A Soldier"

Saoirse Ronan, in "The Outrun", "Rides It Like A Soldier"

Who here can stomach a medium-grade blast of positivity? I ask because the current entertainment climate, as depicted by blogger Ted Gioia in a post this week, is trending away from hopefulness and joy. “The pop culture audience today,” he notes, “craves darkness and dysfunction.” The mission of today’s

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