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It’s Best of time again, and here are my best of choices from this past year. Best Song No question on this one. Someone Like You by Adele. With lyrics like regrets and mistakes, they are memories made, there is nothing more to be said. The only issue with this song is that they are playing it too much. They did that to Celine Dion’s song for Titanic and I wanted to shoot myself every time it came on the radio. Chris Martin (the ...read more I was at lunch with some friends today, and one of them said she had been offered a job in Texas. “You can’t take a job in Texas,” I said firmly. “Why not?” “Because it’s a lawless country. Didn’t you see The Thin Blue Line?” The Thin Blue Line, for those of you who don’t go back as far as 1988, was a documentary film that terrified me and the rest of America. It showed a man wrongly convicted of a murder in Dallas ...read more I know. I never heard of it either, but not only is fragging a real thing, it’s a really awful thing. I am in a screenwriter’s group. (Ok, although I’m in this group, I haven’t presented my screenplay yet. But writing it as if I were really ready to accept my Academy Award is tons of fun.) Last night, someone who had been in the military in Afghanistan was presenting his script and talking about how a new officer can come ...read more I never heard of him until this week, and now he’s dead. Troy Davis, a man of color, convicted of shooting an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard on a long-ago dark night in Georgia, was put to death by lethal injection on a gurney with a bunch of people watching. Who are we as a people? Troy was no saint, although in recent pictures he looks like a studious man from law school—calm, clear-eyed, and full of strength. He ...read more After all these months, the only thing they can agree on is that they can’t agree, so let’s apply for more credit cards to pay the increasing debt? Such a deal. There is nothing to celebrate. I don’t get it. And frankly, you Washington idiots should have kept me out of the discussion because we all know that ignorance is bliss. When you all screwed up in the past, you were smart enough to keep us, the unsuspecting, uneducated, naive public, ...read more Arnold, Arnold, Arnold. Really? And as for the housekeeper/assistant—you couldn’t resign when you got pregnant? You had to stay in the household for ten more years? You had to provide Maria and the children with memories of yourself as an integral part of their personal lives, and all the while you were the mother to their husband’s/father’s child? Really? This story is not a new one. In other countries, it’s not a deal-breaker the way it is in the US of A. ...read more I get it. Ding dong, the witch is dead. Really? First, the man was the tallest man in the Middle East, tethered to a moving hospital, and it took us ten years to find him. The ‘greatest’ country in the world took ten years to find a man who was hiding in plain sight in a country that was supposedly our friend in a town where many retired Pakistani military live. In contrast to the image we had of him running ...read more I love a movie that does everything right—dialog, cinematography, acting, plot, redeeming value, relevance—and Miral is just that movie. Miral is a must-see. And for those of you with an aversion to subtitles, there are only a few, so you will be fine. Based on Rula Jebreal‘s novel about her own life, the movie walks us through the inception of the State of Israel and the ensuing escalation of the Palestinian conflict that followed, all through the eyes of a young ...read more So, it’s tax time again, and I’m getting ready to add up what I paid in taxes and then evaluate the return on my investment in my country. I always get excited about doing that. I know it’s not all about me—I’m a Democrat by nature—but I like to list the pros and cons on paper to make sure I don’t want to move to Monte Carlo, where you pay no taxes and your country doesn’t enter into wars that bog ...read more On Saturday a mentally ill man killed some truly exceptional individuals, and last night the leader of our country asked us all to be part of an American Family, three hundred million strong, and be our best selves. The blind shrink once asked me, “When are you going to start to behave the way you want to be remembered?” Last night, Obama asked us to do the same thing. He asked us to live up to the expectations of nine-year-old ...read more |
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