Archives for April 2010

The African Queen, Revisited

This week, I covered The African Queen in my Analyzing the Script on Screen class. I love that film. It is such a paragon of great screenwriting. But, lately, whenever I use it in class, I always feel compelled to precede it with a disclaimer. It is a sad fact that these days, almost 60 [...]

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Truly, Madly, Deeply

I haven’t been to the movies much lately cause I’ve been busy watching the third season of Mad Men now that its out on DVD. Last night, Ed and I holed up with disc number four and finished off the season. And today, like Don Draper showing up at the apartment of his latest sexual [...]

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Jesus and the Great Dark Frog

Last weekend, I went to church and got a lesson in storytelling. This is, of course, how it has been for centuries – go to church, hear a story and learn something. I happened to be visiting my parents and it was  Easter Sunday. So off we went. Not long into the service, the minister [...]

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