"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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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Text vs. performance: gimme the white-hot stars!
A polluted oasis for refugees from "positive," heartwarming, family-friendly entertainment.
Somebody tell the guy with the race goggles at the Washington Post: Harold Lloyd's work is universal because of the slapstick.
The romance of Edward R. Murrow, and the misconstruction of the "McCarthy era."
Lighten up, ladies.
A completely convincing portrait of a functioning comfortless marriage and a triumph for Julian Fellowes and his cast.
Aestheticism and the fallen man.
A melodrama, a comic book, and their authors' recreational politics.
Two animal documentaries: an ironist rushes in where romantics fear to tread.
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