The alchemy of baseball makes possible the elongation and compression of time.
Easter is a time for resurrectiing Hollywood's biblical epics.
Our secret fantasies were made public by Elvis Presley. If you want to understand the legacy of Bill Clinton forget the Elvis analogies and remember Orson Welles, who created film characters marked by their own self-corruption. The function of beauty is to connect our innermost being to the world. They may not truthfully reflect the way we live, but sometimes the big and small screen present honest explorations of the way we dream. The year 2000 gave us some exceptionally fine works in this regard.