I am grateful to the critic and scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum for a good many reasons, and most recently I find that I owe him for steering me in the direction…
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I hesitate to publicly take issue with Rob Sheffield for several reasons. First off, I find him an engaging, sharp, funny writer. Second, I'm acquainted with him and we share…
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I. I sometimes wonder the extent to which the much-celebrated Katz's Deli "I'll have what she's having" scene in Nora Ephron and Rob Reiner's 1989 When Harry Met Sally affected…
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My old friend Joseph Failla emails: "With all the distractions you have with assignments and deadlines, you may have missed that today is the 45th anniversary of the opening of…
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My old buddy and Cleveland rocker par excellence, Mr. John Petkovic, has, for his day (but still pretty rock and roll) gig at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, written a lovely…
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