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Heaven’s Gate
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I have just watched Heaven’s Gate as an act of curiosity, having it praised as a kind of masterpiece even with its tattered history of a fiasco by a friend. Lots of movies did not get their just due until years after their making — The Magnificent Ambersons comes to mind as well as The […]
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Comments on Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts
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Todd Tarbox, grandson of Roger Hill, headmaster of the famous Todd School for Boys, Woodstock, Illinois, along the progressive approach of A.S. Neill’s Summerhill, and the son of Hascy Tarbox, younger classmate and perhaps rival to Orson Welles contacted me after seeing some reference to Welles by me. Over the years, hear and there, I have written […]
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The New Novel Died Aborning
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As usual I dated the first page (April 1,2013), an historical thing with me as I have always dated new work since I began writing more than four decades ago. I wrote in spurts with several days between new writing and this was not my usual way which is to pour it out in blasts […]
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Memory Traces
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I went to Starbucks Sunday because I had an attack of spilkes. I ordered a cappacino grande and a piece of cinnamon cake most of which I threw away because I had to begin fasting for a blood test tomorrow, my semi-annual anxiety trip. In addition to which my physician retired with very short notice […]