I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.