Pump this up, please: And I live in Canada. The reason I’m here is that I saw such American arrogance being born in the Clinton Administration with Janet Reno’s assaults upon violence on television. They were as ominously totalitarian as
For me the human being is a miracle. For Progressive Americans, however, because of the particularly Progressive Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade Decision of 1973, the human being has become less than ordinary. The human being is now an easily
It was a small bar and restaurant in the West Village of Manhattan … and, while you read this, do me a favor and pump up this performance of The Nearness of You by the infinitely soulful and dangerously loving
L. Arnold Weissberger! I am very proud to say that he had been the first and unquestionably finest “representative” within my entire career. I hesitate to use the title of his profession … lawyer … since, indeed, its implications are,
Marlon Brando once visited the Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, to request money for a film about the First Nations that he and Abby Mann were working on. Following the very unfruitful meeting with Trudeau, Brando declared,”That’s the most
On The Waterfront! Hmmm … As Hamlet says, mortality “must give us pause”. Therefore, “Hmmmm ….. ” On what must be my tenth viewing of that American masterpiece, I realized how tragically prophetic it has proven to be. What inspired
Today, with the help of Big Hollywood’s Leigh Scott, I begin my tribute series to Governor Sarah Palin. Scott Leigh, a horror film-maker reminiscent of my not-always-so-hard-times spent with Larry Cohen, had this to say about what the Left fears
I was a mere teenager in the fifties when it was broadcast widely that the Chinese “don’t really have the same love of life that we do.” Apparently the Americans at Jonestown were part Chinese, eh? Here is the Last
Our President’s favorite movie is The Godfather. “You disrespected me …” says Don Corleone to a favor-seeker. That’s one of President Obama’s favorite phrases from Marlon Brando’s Godfather. The, by now very boring, Judeo-Christian civilization has raised us to “disrespect”
I met Sidney Poitier for the first time in the summer of 1994. He was starring in the television film, Children of the Dust. I played a supporting role in that project, a character who just happened to be married
Before we begin… Perhaps it’s genetic and, because I’m Irish-American, I’m sounding like Joseph McCarthy when he railed against Communism with his Un-American Activities Committee. Plus, with a name like Moriarty, given that’s the “handle” for the major villain in
Rather than proceed with the more obvious examples of Hollywood Left … as I had promised, films like Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Reds and Inside Man, I’m drawn to a much subtler message in the great classic Casablanca. Perhaps every movie
The fearless yearning of the human soul! That is what I’d like to talk about in this editorial. Amidst the urgency of combating the Obama Nation’s disgusting ambitions for shrinking the United States of America into a docile and obedient
Despite the darkening clouds of increasingly Marxist/Islamic sympathies in the White House (“This is no longer just a Christian nation …”, said the President) and regardless of the Obama Nation’s success at “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” into
Well, I think I’ve been fairly calm and forgiving of Law and Order for about fifteen years. Living outside of the U.S. has certainly helped in more ways than one. Out of sight, out of mind. Law and Order has,
Dead End? The film with Joel McCrea and what finally became known of as The Dead End Kids? Saw it … in its entirety … for the first time, two nights ago. The authors, of course, Sidney Kingsley and Lillian
To begin with, writing this first editorial for Big Hollywood feels as threatening as the moment I entered California to do my first big film-role in Glory Boy, originally and more comprehensively titled, My Old Man’s Place. “Do I really
