Celebrating the Living: Whoopi Goldberg
I have to admit it. The thing that made me smile most when going through…
Dissolve On (9/3/2017-9/9/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Attention Must Be Paid: James Wong Howe
I recently read Five Came Back, a fascinating book about five major Hollywood directors who…
Disney Byways: “Plane Crazy”
The studios were in general startled by the arrival of sound. A lot of things…
Year of the Month: Scott Broussard (scb0212) on The Prisoner
Fifty years later, writer/director Patrick McGoohan’s spy-fi show The Prisoner remains as entertaining and bewildering…
The Solute Record Club/Year of the Month: Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos
A nearly objective measure of the necessity of J. S. Bach to the Western musical…
A Look Back At The Ten Biggest Movies At The Summer 2017 Box Office
Back at the end of April, for the third year in a row, I typed…
Year of the Month: Babalugats on Danger: Diabolik
An armored truck barrels down the street flanked by a battalion of police motorcycles. But…
Celebrating the Living: Kevin Kline
One of the recurring hazards of this column is, “Wait, I haven’t done [person] yet?”…
Dissolve On (8/27/2017-9/2/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…