by Sarah D. Bunting
The Movie: Turk 182!
The Crush Object: Timothy Hutton
The Story: When his firefighter brother Terry (Robert Urich) gets hurt saving a little moppet from a blaze while intoxicated (Terry is intoxicated, not the …

The Crushed Film Festival is a series of pieces in which I and various colleagues admit to/review films we saw because, and pretty much only because, an actor or actress we had a crush on …

A question besides “Why do I watch this sordidry?”, that is, because there’s no good answer to that.
No, my question is: Does anyone else wonder why Jen is in charge of that house if she’s …

[T]he comma separates items (including the last from the next-to-last) in a list of more than two — e.g.: “The Joneses, the Smiths, and the Nelsons.”   In this position, it’s called, variously, the serial …

It’s stayed with me for a few days; Werner Herzog, who narrates as well as writing and directing the documentary, has a way of musing in voice-over about the prospects for human life’s continued tenure …

My latest 90210 recap is up on SOAPnet.com.   “Weezy”?   Really, writers?
Also, in case you don’t plan to fly US Airways in the near future, you can read my Brooklyn piece in the in-flight …

Please join me at King Killer Studios on Saturday January 31 for a show by The Kites (the handsome peeps above).   Their punishing metal riffs…no, wait, they’re a folk trio, but Nat can probably …

Operation Filmmaker isn’t perfect, but does a great job of pulling the viewer back and forth between sympathies (or antipathies, as the case may be).You see the producers’ point (this is his job, and the …

Resident sucker for oral histories yours truly recommends the one on Daily Beast about the inauguration changeover.
I nearly can’t believe it’s finally come: the last day of the Bush presidency.   I watched his farewell …

An editor walks a tightrope.It’s part of an editor’s job to let and/or to help the writing be what it is.It depends on the content undergoing the editing, of course, and whether a house style …