I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.