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Category Archives: Hollywood
Screenwriting 101: Mastering the Art of Story
Angus Fletcher writes: * In comedy and tragedy, the main characters are eventually forced by the action of the plot to conform to the big rules of their story world. But in heroic scripts, the opposite happens: The main characters … Continue reading
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Are We What We Watch?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * It’s amusing how 90% of mental health issues are rich girls following fads – social contagion. All the teen girls wanted to be depressed around the time of Prozac Nation. I read somewhere about a … Continue reading
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Mrs. America
I enjoy watching this show but its main character, Phyllis Schlafly, is the only character you are consistently manipulated to loathe. Comments at Steve Sailer: * Steve: Cate Blanchett is playing conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly who defeated the Equal Rights … Continue reading
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Richard Jewell – My Favorite Movie Of 2019
Steve Sailer wrote Dec. 18, 2019: Richard Jewell is director Clint Eastwood’s well-acted, solidly scripted biopic about the racial-profiling fiasco that undermined the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing investigation. The FBI monomaniacally targeted an innocent rent-a-cop for being a Frustrated White … Continue reading
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The Seven Basic Plots
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NYT: Al Burton, 91, Dies; Sitcom Producer With an Eye for Youth Culture
From the New York Times: Al Burton, a television producer who began his long career in 1949 with a show about teenagers in Los Angeles and later helped develop programs as diverse as “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and “Win Ben … Continue reading
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Hollywood Reporter: Woody Allen’s Secret Teen Lover Speaks: Sex, Power and a Conflicted Muse Who Inspired ‘Manhattan’
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Many “aspiring models” end up being “escorts” or have “sugar daddies” i.e. become prostitutes to wealthy men. As they age out, some of them transition to assistant positions to these men where they assume madam … Continue reading
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Theater Thursday: The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
00:00 KMG on The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs 1:00:00 Smart Tattoos Could Change Color, Indicate Health Issues 1:05:00 The Biggest Losers of Trump’s Presidency: His Voters 1:10:00 Richard Spencer vs Nick Fuentes, this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLxKpr1qzvM 1:24:00 Tinder and OkCupid have … Continue reading
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Theater Thursday
Every Thursday evening on my Youtube channel, Kevin Michael Grace and I discuss a movie. * Jules and Jim (1962) * Fish Tank (2009) * The Irishman (2019) * The Fountain (2006) * The Apartment (1960) * The Night of … Continue reading
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Judge Kavanaugh And The Case Of The Mysterious Disappearing Accusers
00:00 Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers 55:00 The Virgin Spring 1:44:00 Journalist Maggie Parker (with that thousand yard stare) lists her exes in lurid detail prior to getting married Okay, I’ll begin laying out some information concerning Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against … Continue reading