Alan Dale earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He currently works as a corporate tax attorney in Portland, Oregon.
He is the author of What We Do Best: American Movie Comedies of the 1990s and Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies.
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It's a ballad, it's a novel, it's amazing.
Irony down to the happy ending, and presumably beyond.
Almost like being there.
Two martyrs, three movies: totalitarian "justice."
Grand theft acting: David Morse boosts 16 Blocks from both Bruce Willis and Mos Def.
Fateless, Life Is Beautiful, Naked Among Wolves, Kapò: children's experiences in Nazi concentration camps.
Underwrought, overwrought, rot.
Woody Allen soars way beyond the level of his incompetence.
It's not a gay western, it's a gay soap opera.
A hit and a miss. The moral: know what kind of book you're adapting.
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