Sunday, June 25, 2023

Quentin Tarantino's Recent Thoughts on the Bond Series

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Quentin Tarantino name has come up before in relation to the Bond films. Back in the '90s he actually aspired to make a film adaptatio...

Social Withdrawal, or Social Rejection?

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When those who attend to the matter of those who have withdrawn from society write about them their tendency has been to emphasize the actio...

Another Take on the Cult of Celebrity

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My usual first thought regarding the cult of celebrity is its foolishness--and the second, its essential backwardness, reflecting as it does...

Remembering Spin City

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Recently considering the politically "safe" character of the '90s-era sitcom I found myself recalling the sitcom Spin City , p...

Nineteen Eighty-Nine and the Way the Summer Box Office Used to Be

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Recently I remembered here the year 1989 at the box office--both the hype that surrounded it, and the ways in which that year did anticipate...

Is the World Already Crawling With Artificial Super-Intelligences?

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Amid the present furor over progress in the area of chatbot development many a commentator is raising the tired old specter of inhuman intel...

H.G. Wells' "Bookish Illiteracy"

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In his Experiment in Autobiography there is a point at which H.G. Wells suggests that the "caricature-individualities" of his rea...

On Longtime Fans

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I remember how when I first started to look into science fiction seriously, and read some of the history and criticism of the field in the c...

Remember When They Thought the Action Film Was Dying Out?

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Probably not. But that was the way the entertainment press was talking circa 1990, believe it or not. What brought that on? Simply put, th...

Red Forman's Vision of the '70s on That '70s Show

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Watching That '70s Show years ago (mostly in reruns) I found it a mixed bag. Some of it worked, some of it didn't. The antics of ...