January 1, 2009 – 11:13 pm
Dear _______, I apologize for writing this email to you, but I need to express it to someone and you are as good a person as any. I am a little in my cups at the moment and you can completely ignore this message if you want, I don’t mind in the least. Over tea [...]
September 28, 2008 – 12:12 pm
On a radio show recently, the question was put forth, “does art have the power to change a life?” Although I’ve always thought a life without art is a dead life and a society without art is a dead society, I’d never considered the question quite in that way. It started me thinking about my [...]
As you can probably tell, I love movies. I love them unapologeticly. I would often rather go to a movie than have a good meal or sit by a roaring fire with a brandy or watch the waves of a blue and green ocean spread toward me an a beautiful summer day. As I say, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The following is part of an email conversation I had recently with my father, poet Rowell Hoff, who now lives in China with his wife, Carol. Dad: We watched, on recommendation of a friend, “Once Upon a Time in America“, Sergio Leone’s long movie about — about what?? Me, I didn’t like it at all. [...]
