THE ESSENCE OF TYRANNY
  There: look at the me I want you to. Tall, thin, 20something. It is all so simple. I am at my peak, I think. I am sure. It is what I tell you. I am born on Candlemas/Groundhog’s Day/February 2 nd, 1965, to a single mother alone in a home for unwed mothers (how quaint!). Forget that. This is just what I have been told.>>>

TAKING 5: NEEDING SOMETHING TO SAY
There has been controversy over the film The Third Man, made in 1949 in the U.K., & released a year later in America. The controversy rests not with the film’s content (as many current movies use to market themselves) but its provenance. The reasons stem from 2 facts. 1) The nominal ‘director’ of the film, Carol Reed, never before nor after came close to the cinematic heights of this post-World War 2 film noir masterpiece (20 years later he directed Oliver- widely considered 1 of the worst Oscar winning films ever). Reed was a prototypical studio director who took assignments rather than championed works, directing pedestrian fare like Odd Man Out (1947) & The Fallen Idol (1948). 2) The ‘nominal’ star of the film was Orson Welles- 1 of the greatest & most influential directors cinema ever produced. >>>