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Whatever Happened To Film Noir?
April 1 2008 One reason why many younger people show no interest in film noir is because the classic noir movies were almost all made during the late 1940s or early 1950s. For twenty somethings, that makes these films about as relevant as watching the plays of Euripides in the original......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-01 17:30:00 | Rating:

| Views: 237 | Comments: 0 | Tags: film noir

Meet The Press
April 3 2008 You might think that we writers get interviewed often by the media, but you'd be wrong. I'm sure that Stephen King and J.K. Rowling have journalists and TV anchors calling them every day to beg for their opinions. The rest of us ink stained wretches are lucky if our own......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-03 11:47:55 | Rating:

| Views: 223 | Comments: 0 | Tags: interview newspaper

Political Gender Bending
April 7 2008 By now, there is probably nobody on the planet who doesn't know that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are competing to be the Democratic Party candidate in this year's American presidential election. However, there is one irony of this competition that the US news......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-07 11:03:38 | Rating:

| Views: 209 | Comments: 0 | Tags: masculine feminine

The Ghost Of Travis Bickle
April 9 2008 American writer Stephen Crane was born after the Civil War ended and he never saw combat, except as a war correspondent, but his 1895 novel The Red Badge Of Courage was one of the first books to portray the hideous face of war rather than glamorizing it. Since Crane's time, a......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-09 13:55:09 | Rating:

| Views: 228 | Comments: 0 | Tags: war veteran

The End Of Science Fiction
April 13 2008 One way to get noticed by the media seems to be to pronounce the end of something. About twenty years ago, a book titled The End Of Ideology received much attention. The premise of this book was that, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the perceived triumph of......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-13 13:22:58 | Rating:

| Views: 217 | Comments: 0 | Tags: science fiction

Obama Versus Two Republicans
April 14 2008 One of Barack Obama's handicaps in his push to be President of the United States is the fact that he has two Republican opponents, John McCain and Hillary Clinton. No doubt eyebrows will shoot up in surprise when I call Clinton a Republican. While it's unlikely that she......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-14 10:27:52 | Rating:

| Views: 223 | Comments: 0 | Tags: candidate Republican

Politics And American Movies
April 16 2008 Many American conservatives are convinced that Hollywood has always been a stronghold of leftism, but this isn't true. During the history of American movies, the political tone of Hollywood films has shifted from right to left and back more than once. These shifts have......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-16 14:45:31 | Rating:

| Views: 252 | Comments: 2 | Tags: movies politics

Ghostly Movies
April 20 2008 Movies about the supernatural usually do well at the box office. The genre can be further subdivided into such types as the vampire flick, the werewolf movie and films about marauding zombies, but the most popular form is the ghost story. So popular are ghost stories that......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-20 15:35:58 | Rating:

| Views: 244 | Comments: 0 | Tags: ghosts

Growing Old In North America
April 24 2008 Have you ever been discriminated against because of your age? Even if you haven't, you almost certainly will be. In North America, people are living longer and the fastest growing segment of the population is made up of people over the age of sixty-five. For the first......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-24 10:24:47 | Rating:

| Views: 252 | Comments: 3 | Tags: old age

The Curse Of Race And Gender
April 26 2008 Back at the start of the current American presidential primaries, many mainstream media pundits talked blithely about how the United States had moved on, past racism and sexism. This would be an electoral contest fought on the issues and a candidate's color or gender wouldn't......Read More