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My Life with Blue Hair

It’s true. At one point in my adult life, I dyed my hair blue. This graph should put the incident in perspective. *These personal pie charts represent estimates and are only as accurate as is possible, given my poor powers … Continue reading

Personal Pie Charts
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My Life with a Beard

*These personal pie charts represent estimates and are only as accurate as is possible, given my poor powers of recall. They illustrate the “official numbers” on a given subject, as of the date of the post.

Personal Pie Charts
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Tabu

Tabu A sensual island masterpiece, Tabu began as the collaboration between two talented Hollywood outsiders — accomplished documentarian Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North), who had recently been fired from his first attempt at fiction filmmaking, and German expatriate Friedrich … Continue reading

Movies, My Writing, Old Movies, Reviews
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The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye Robert Altman was at the top of his craft when he made this revisionist detective gem in 1973 — one of a string of similarly skewed genre masterpieces that included McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Nashville. Elliott … Continue reading

Movies, My Writing, Old Movies, Reviews
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I Am the Greatest!

I Am the Greatest! This rerelease of Cassius Clay’s legendary 1963 recording provides the champ’s fans with a portrait of the pugilist as a sassy young man. Divided into eight playful “rounds” of verbal shadowboxing, I AM THE GREATEST! features … Continue reading

Comedy, My Writing, Reviews, Sports
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The Gift

The Gift Director Sam Raimi delivers a long-awaited gift to fans of his earlier genre triumphs with this slight return to the voodoo of horror pictures past. Cate Blanchett stars as Annie Wilson, a widowed mother of three young boys … Continue reading

Horror, Movies, My Writing, Reviews
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Interview with Charlie Kaufman

[Q&A from an interview with Charlie Kaufman, originally written for Barnes & Noble.com] DG: A lot of people pushed you to explain the meaning of Being John Malkovich, or talk about its significance; did that get tiresome after a while, … Continue reading

Interviews, Movies, My Writing, Writing
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