'I can feel it,' Marlou said to me one day, a winter day, although the season hardly mattered. 'I can feel it spreading.'No further details required, cancer filling in not only the bodily cavities but the mind's fear spaces so readily that the listener automatically completes any descriptive sentence. Feel it. The body expanding. Interior parts never experienced now touching others. Followed by painful invasions. Then dryings and drippings. Followed by those pervasive, wrenching experiences of offness Read more [...]

Do Hollywood directors actually yell 'action' when the camera rolls? In this digital age, do cameras even roll? As for me, am I on a roll...or rolling to a stop? And if I knew either way, why would it matter? More to the point, what if a director...actually, the 1920s silent variety, complete with knickerbockers and megaphone...walked right through my open front door and yelled 'action' at me? Several times a day, in fact. Wouldn't this be good? I mean, really. For closely allied to FDR's famous Read more [...]