As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

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

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

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!

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.