Imagining [the Wizard Of Oz]

Movies Have Been Doing So Much Of The Same Thing - In Slightly Different Ways - For So Long That Few Of The Possibilities Of This Great Hybrid Art Have Yet Been Explored.

Sex Is The Great Leveler, Taste The Great Divider.

I Believe That We Respond Most And Best To Work In Any Art Form (and To Other Experience As Well) If We Are Pluralistic, Flexible, Relative In Our Judgments, If We Are Electic.

There Seems To Be An Assumption That If You're Offended By Movie Brutality, You Are Somehow Playing Into The Hands Of The People Who Want Censorship. But This Would Deny Those Of Us Who Don't Believe In Censorship The Use Of The Only Counter-balance: The Freedom Of The Press To Say That There's Anything Conceivably Damaging In These Films - The Freedom To Analyze Their Implications. How Can People Go On Talking About The Dazzling Brilliance Of Movies And Not Notice That The Directors Are Sucking Up To The Thugs In The Audience?

I Am Mystified. I Know Only One Person Who Voted For Nixon.