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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Just A Question
April 30 2008
I don't have time to do an essay today (Don't all cheer at once.), so I'll just post a brain teaser. If you answer this one correctly, take a bow for being very...
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