From the end credits of A Girl's Best Friend, Henri Pachard, 1981 My Life In Pornography is the title of a memoir I completed in the summer of 2012. Its…
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Art Pepper, the jazz saxophonist, wrote, with his wife Laurie Pepper, one of the great books about art and addiction, his memoir Straight Life. After describing his childhood, and his…
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Above, in Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999. This one hurts particularly badly for a variety of reasons. My thoughts and prayers are with him, his family, and his family of…
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The daily grind: Tim Jenison learns to make pigments prior to attempting a Vermeer. Tim's Vermeer reviewed for RogerEbert.com; Brightest Star reviewed for same. One's good and interesting, the other…
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Kathryn Ryan and the team at Nine to Noon started back earlier this week after the long summer break. This week, I spoke breathlessly about the big summer movies including…
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We do the American Hustle with David O. Russell and his cast of Oscar-nominees, take a trip to Burma with The Railway Man, ask whether it's true that there's no…
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