I celebrated the passage of the health care reform bill by going to see a movie about the Republican vision for health care. “Repo Men,”…
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45 years ago, as a 17 year old high school senior, I cringed as I saw the pictures of civil rights marchers being brutally beaten…
Given my choice of movies, the execrable Michael Jackson puff piece/pseudo-documentary *This Is It* would have remained near the bottom of my list, but on…
All right, maybe I exaggerated a little bit. There were a few weeks of spring before summer hit with full superheated force. As I was…
For many years afterward I’d approach this date with deep, dark trepidation, convinced that some sort of disaster was certain to befall me. The one…
In my younger days I had a habit that I thought was amusing but which I imagine most people found very annoying. It consisted of…
My first trip up Spy Rock Road must have been late in the summer of 1980. My brother-in-common-law had bought a place at the top…
On the day I arrived in the Bay Area I got to Berkeley just an hour or so too late to catch some films at…
Though I was never a huge fan of the man or his music, there's no denying that Michael Jackson was prodigiously talented, and if I…