WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

He's a master of timing, which you have to be as a magician. Frankly, I think he was more in tune with that profession (or trickster) than what we would consider a film auteur - someone whose concern (among others) is cinematic art above all else. A film like Ambersons is nostalgic but devoid of the...

Its my all time favorite novel. Even after 5o years I still get time to re-read it, I do this in every couple of years. Maybe now's a good time to get it down from the shelf again. I know Heller was unhappy and frustrated about not being able to write another novel that 'caught' readers like Catch 2...

I have seen this movie recently on star movies. I heard that it is based on true events but don't know how true are they. But what I found from my movie experiences that it is a mixture of three stories. The killers, a principle male assailant and female accomplices, is based upon Charles Manson and...