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The Ghost Of Travis Bickle
November 5 2009 American writer Stephen Crane was born after the Civil War ended, so he never saw combat in that conflict. Still, his 1895 novel about the American Civil War (titled The Red Badge Of Courage) was one of the first books to portray war......Read More

Posted on: 2009-11-04 16:29:31 | Rating:

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Writers Are Troublemakers
October 25 2009 If you examine the history of any of the social or political upheavals that have taken place during the past few centuries, the chances are very good that you will find that a writer was involved. Martin Luther's The......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-26 16:55:35 | Rating:

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Selling Torture
September 27 2009 Watch old movies or TV shows from fifty years ago and you will find it easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys. I'm defining “good guys” as the movie characters whom the audience was supposed to like and “bad guys” as......Read More

Posted on: 2009-09-27 13:00:20 | Rating:

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Socially Relevant Movies
August 23, 2009 Back during the1930s and 1940s, Hollywood movies often had stories that touched on social issues of the day, such as The Great Depression , racial discrimination or prison conditions. That kind of social commentary is completely absent from......Read More

Posted on: 2009-08-22 19:21:40 | Rating:

| Views: 62 | Comments: 2 | Tags: movies

Desperate Writers
August 8 2009 I posted this article for the first time more than a year ago. Readers seemed to like it then, so I'm posting it again. ***** Despite the fact that Toronto is a large cosmopolitan city, writers conferences are rare here. Consequently, when I saw an ad......Read More

Posted on: 2009-08-08 11:13:01 | Rating:

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Soap Flakes
July 31 2009 If you watch any daytime TV at all, you'll soon realize that the most popular shows on the air are daytime serials, affectionately known as "the soaps". These programs provide the same sexual fantasies for women that porn does for men. Even though I'm......Read More

Posted on: 2009-07-31 11:55:15 | Rating:

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Reality TV
July 23, 2009 With so many "reality shows" on television these days, you might think that just about every variation of the concept has been explored already. I disagree. Actually, I have some ideas for fresh new reality shows that would probably be popular with today's viewers.......Read More

Posted on: 2009-07-23 15:01:44 | Rating:

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Advice For Movie Villains
July 22, 2009 Over the years, I've seen many movies and one thing has always been obvious to me. Movie villains have a terrible time. If they don't die horribly by the end of the film, then the best they can anticipate is to be sent to prison. I realize that the movie heavies themselves are......Read More

Posted on: 2009-07-22 17:22:39 | Rating:

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Scenes I'd Like To See
July 15, 2009 How many times have you found yourself watching a movie that's so predictable you know where the story is going after watching for just the first five minutes? These stale films would benefit from just a few changes to clichē ridden scenes. Here are some examples: The......Read More

Posted on: 2009-07-15 15:04:29 | Rating:

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Whose Movie Is This Anyway?
June 8, 2009 Every great movie director has his or her own individual style that shapes each picture. For example, think about how differently the film classic Casablanca would have turned out if it had been given to each of these directors: Directed By Alfred Hitchcock......Read More