Gerald Peary
Like me, Phyllis Rose frets about the zillion fine books out there that nobody bothers with. Why their neglect? She reasons that it’s because no one pedigreed has championed them.
Read MoreSo what was so impressive about the lineup of films at the 17th Maine Fest? Catnip for me are 35mm films on the big screen..
Read MoreA Coffee in Berlin is described accurately in its publicity as “a slacker comedy.”
Read MoreThe haughty, witty Gore Vidal, my role model, was never happier than when going against the madding American populace.
Read MoreThe Grand Seduction has some mawkish moments, but it’s still a very sweet movie, skillfully made and charmingly told.
What’s not to adore about this super-friendly, hedonistic, 24-hour street party, what summer resident John Waters celebrates as “a gay fishing village,” and what I might label, oxymoronically, a “queer New Orleans.”
Read MoreUnlike Sundance, where “independent” has been stretched to allow for expensive non-studio movies with slumming Hollywood stars, the films we watched at Seattle were mostly low budget.
Read MoreMost of HBO’s “The Normal Heart” is a pretty decent adaptation of the 1985 stage script, with some good things added, including an effective pre-credit section set on Fire Island in 1982.
Read MoreThe best corned beef in the Boston area by far is, get this, at an Italian lunch joint in Downtown Crossing, Sam LaGrassa’s.
All that WASP self-reliance and fortitude, and I, the Jew, am thinking, “Isn’t anyone getting hungry? Doesn’t anyone want to use the potty?”
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