Recently, I watched a making-of video on YouTube of the movie Casablanca1. This movie came out in 1942 when Hollywood was called a factory (or Dream Factory) because it put out one film after another. Hollywood indeed had some bad practices during that period and in subsequent times. Humans are humans, and when money and
My first post-school exposure to writing came when I needed to teach my children. I home-schooled my son and daughter for two years because familiar problems for them cropped up. My son had reading issues from his need to hide much of what he could do, confusing his teachers. My daughter, a top student in
Directed by Rupert Sanders Screenplay by Jamie Moss, Willian Wheller, Ehren Kruger Based on Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow Produced by Avi Arad, Steven Paul, Michael Costigan, Starring Scarlett Johansson– plays Major Mira, Ms. Johansson also played Natasha Romanov in Avengers movies 2015-2021, Midge Campbell in Asteroid City 2023, Lucy in Lucy 2014,
Writing is a journey that is both sweet and tortuous. If you have this gene, you know what I mean. Sweet in that it fills your head with visions of grand and gentle scenes but always intriguing and rich because it comes from what you find enticing. It’s built around you. Torturous because those visions
Fantastic Voyage Director Richard Fleischer Produced by Saul David Screenplay by Hary Kleiner Story by Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement, Adaption David Duncan Starring Stephen Boyd played Grant. Raquel Welch played Cora Peterson. Ms. Welch also played Loana in One Million Years B.C. Edmond O’Brien played General Carter. Donald Pleasence played Dr. Michaeals. Mr. Pleasence also