After thinking about Escape from New York and how our current times are worse than John Carpenter’s vision, I wondered how the rest of the Dystop-a-June list would stack up against the world of today.
I have said this before, but I shall say it again with greater emphasis. When Muslims attack and murder Jews, the problem is not anti-semitism.
The inability to say no, when it needs to be said, has always been for me a major weakness. I once foolishly took a job as managing editor of a magazine in the Midwest. I promised my wife two or three years and we’d be back in South Carolina—five years at most.
What first struck me about the murder was the fact that the lady of the house was the photographer who had taken the portrait photo for the cover of The Art of the Deal.
On FB today, someone who often comments on Catholic topics referred to Cardinal Archbishop Cupich as a “centrist.”
I’m not even going to quote President Trump’s disgusting comments about the late Rob Reiner, murdered over the weekend, along with Mrs. Reiner, allegedly by their son. But the comments are the latest sign Trump is unraveling.
This is my article on Forster from The Spectator. The title was given by an editor, probably Stuart Reid.
During the 1960s I forged my conception of movies as an art form rooted in entertainment and involving performance, like theater and dance, but also narrative form, like prose fiction; the composition of line and volume, light and color to represent things and atmospheres, as in fine graphic art and painting…..
