John Rogers, the Kung Fu Monkey, on working with Tim Hutton in the pilot for the show Leverage: On the next take, in the middle of five pages of dialogue,…
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Paul Verhoeven is one of those directors that has no hand-brake, regardless of the subject matter. For ice-pick wielding murderers (Basic Instinct) or giant alien bugs (Starship Troopers) this damn-the-torpedos…
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There’s very little that can conjure up a childhood memory like familiar TV theme music (the smell of Play-Doh, perhaps) and the creator of the most familiar all those tune…
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As recounted by celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks in a recent New Yorker, amnesia is a fascinating condition. In the article he tells the story of classical musician Clive Wearing who,…
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James Ellroy on Dashiell Hammett: Hammett's male-speak is the gab of the grift, the scam, the dime hustle. It's the poke, the probe, the veiled query, the grab for advantage.…
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