Spitball Army

“Skeleton Dance” (1929), a Disney Silly Symphony

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“Don’t forget to turn the lights out when you’re through, will ya.”

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“That’s what makes me dangerous…I’m the new kind of other woman.”

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Stand up! Stand up with me! Stand up and fight! Fight for your individuality! Be a maverick! Bring reform to Warshington! Fight for oysters and snails!

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And when he got going good he was completely lost in his work, so absorbed that he had no idea what a comic face he was making. His tongue lolled out in a fat roll, his cheeks puffed out, and his eyes popped out and crossed themselves.

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I approached this documentary with some hesitation.  After all, who would willingly settle, with any enthusiasm, into a screening of a film about suicide?  The few reviews I had read about the film were positive, so I watched it, hoping to learn something new. The film is beautiful.  That is to say, the footage and photography […]

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It looks like a special effect, as if the prop man had tied fishing line to the end of his nose and was tugging at it from off-camera.

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I once sat on a board that included among its members one Richard Scrushy. Does this make me a perpetrator of corporate fraud or a millionaire?

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Roger Ebert’s “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” was generally prefaced by a thoughtful analysis. I favored his choices, as they tended to agree with mine most of the time. To this day, if I need an opinion about a movie, I go to rogerebert.com to see what ol’ Roger has to say.

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“There will be devastating consequences to our economy if we do not hold a secret meeting at the exact same time as the debates!”

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