I watched dumbfounded as Texas Senator Ted Cruz (always dumbfounding to watch) gave a passionate defense of President Donald Trump from the Senate floor las week. I could not help…
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# Journal Entry
There have been several Quasimodos, even a cute Disney animated version. The best known were played by Lon Chaney Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, and Anthony Hopkins. The movie lore is…
It has been nearly sixty years of carrying around the guilt of it. Me, a (now emeritus) professor, an academic cheater, one who has committed the mortal sin of academe. …
Since we are on this subject . . . I can still hear Sal’s hoarse voice as we stood side by side at urinals at a rest stop on the…
Remember that old saying about “the sun never sets on the British Empire”? It was true once. But it hasn’t been for a long time and the apt saying today…
Since I first wrote this essay it has obviously done nothing to reduce the scourge of fantasy films. They continue to pour out of Hollywood and elsewhere to thrill…
An angel gets his wings ©RKO Pictures It’s that time of the year again; time for Zu-Zu’s petals. But first, a few words on a related “seasonal” film; one…
I will begin with a little confessional. I decided to take a nom de plume—Sébastian Gerard (you already know who I really am)—back in 2004 when I commenced my first…
No, it’s not one of my typos. You read it correctly—Homo Sepia Sapiens. What the hell is that, you ask? I don’t blame you; a lot of the things I write…
It has taken a brutal murder by a barbarous people of the Middle Ages to remind us that it is long past time that America, a country with a notorious…