John Steinbeck, chronicler of the Depression-era common man, has created many indelible characters, but few resonate with us with the impact of those odd couple drifters, George Milton and Lennie Small, in Of Mice and Men. A symbiotic team where most migrant workers are loners, scrappy, parental George is unusually protective of hulking, slow-witted Lennie. For quite … [Read more...]
Powerful ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ a thinking person’s thriller
Hollywood’s view on the U.S. intelligence organizations’ “enhanced interrogation techniques” that have been violating Geneva conventions since 9-11 is pretty clear. Rendition, Taxi to the Dark Side, Standard Operating Procedure -- these features and documentaries all take the correct liberal position on the issue: that torture is shameful and ineffective, a moral blight on this … [Read more...]