Mill Valley Film Festival
May-December screenwriter Samy Burke was a terrific post screening conversation at the after screening party.
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Giant Sequoias script inspiration
I don’t have to use my imagination at all. The story of our climate emergency is volunteered by people I meet while I travel near and far.
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wells can be so overused as to trigger a complete collapse of the aquifer, the result renders a desert region like Arizona utterly uninhabitable.
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My doctor believes I have the nerve to tell it like it is— silly me.
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Occupational hazards abound for the writer. Sitting at a desk all day, incessant use of reading glasses, fighting off the flurry of notifications our digital overlords have embedded on our phones, iPads, and desktop computers. Exercise patterns have changed, there is now a daily bike ride to account for. I’m averaging 100 miles a week, […]
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We all know about the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security and of then the more familiar Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation. Reading today’s Financial Times the sage reporting of Ed Luce by way of a feature story Lunch with the FT-Christo Grozev spills the spy craft beans. […]
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For my money Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan’s apex directorial moment. His impulsiveness reminds me of the challenges Robin Williams presented when trying to contain the great performers tendency to be let loose and run unbridled. Nolan isn’t as frenetic; he doesn’t fly off on some stream of consciousness riff, his challenge is the same as […]
Read More barbie goes BAZILLION—groundwater giveaway caper
There are a lot of theories about how this deal got made, but nobody that knows is talking, most of the players in what has been characterized as a sweetheart deal have since left the Land Department.
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See you on the other side of Independence Day, we can get to work on the campaign to oust the gay haters who have lied their way onto our nation’s highest court—
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Flatiron’s two best pilots are both Black American women, both skilled pilots, there is Major Emma Bezel and Lieutenant Colonel Dovey Doverspike.
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