Doctor Strained
DOCTOR STRANGE may have mystical superpowers, but still can be felled by one small act: a lame First Act. Hollywood producers are wrong...
Oy, Gestalt!
"The audience will not undergo anything the protagonist does not undergo. For the journey is the same, and the audience members...
Enduring Freedom
Dalton Trumbo was a champion of the "little guy." You can hear his advocacy in movies such as SPARTACUS, PAPILLON and THE BRAVE ONE. Of...
Slap Me Five!
A good story is like a Russian nesting doll. Initially, you are drawn to it by its trappings, the plot, the pictures, the promise. Then,...
Think Big
What's the Big Idea? Who knows... but I better have one for my presentation at the Walla Walla Public Library this Friday night. If...