Monthly Archives: May 2006

Brando and Newman and Me

This week’s entry is a short one. It started as another email conversation with my father, poet Rowell Hoff, who currently lives with his wife Carol in China. Dad: We just watched last night the Paul Newman movie “Nobody’s Fool“. We sort of think he may be, if there is one, the best actor around. [...]

Baseball Movies (Believe it or Not) and Passion

I recently saw the end of Field of Dreams on television, one of those movies that whenever I stumble across it I end up watching from that point to the end. (Two others are The Usual Suspects and Shawshank Redemption. I’ve watched the end of those movies more times than I can count.) When Field [...]

Woody Allen, Manhattan and the Art of Film

Some people don’t like, or don’t get Woody Allen and wonder why he is so revered. I think he can be brilliant. The films of his that I have liked, I have loved. Manhattan is one of my favorites. Yes, it is, as some might say, about “whiny aimless people with boring neuroses”. That, I [...]