Last night, watched SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (1959), starring Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift, which Gore Vidal expanded off the one-act play by Tennessee Williams. First time for me, recorded off TCM. Oh, boy. With dialogue and performances occupying the precise intersection between poetry and overbearing pretension, the story’s about a wealthy southern matriarch […]
Originally published on Facebook 26 June 2016. Look. Science fiction is one of the things I write. I publish some in ANALOG, a magazine where some of the stories hinge on the finer points of engineering. I understand that some of the folks plying this trade pride themselves on accuracy to multiple decimal points. But […]
WALKING DEAD fans: if you’re among the folks who think so-and-so’s survival is “a total cheat,” grow up. Listen: characters in action-oriented fiction, which this particular show is, survive building collapses, ground-zero explosions, falls from great heights into water, and rollover car crashes, all the time; they do so because part of the power of […]
