April 15, 2008 – 10:32 am
As a young boy in the remote New Jersey town called Flatbrookville, I hated peas, those grey-green orbs piled on my dinner plate threatening to roll over into the mashed potatoes (a favorite) and pollute Grandma’s wonderful pot roast. They smushed on my tongue into a slimy mess that tasted unnatural with an undercurrent of [...]
August 11, 2006 – 2:47 pm
Second Day – Wednesday, August 10, 2006 Utah is in a different universe. And as you go further east (at least on the 70) it gets more and more alien. The western end has green and looks normal, but it starts to get strange very soon. I was told that, as you travel along the [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
