OUR FRIEND: A CLICHÉ-FREE TEARJERKER
I was tempted to dismiss Our Friend as just another movie about a loved one’s battle with a fatal disease. Then I watched it. Yes, it’s a tearjerker, but it’s derived from a first-person article from Esquire that won the National Magazine Award.…
REMEMBERING THE DAUGHTER OF A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND
Time was when you could count on the Hollywood trade papers and local press to track the births, deaths, and marriages in all of show business. Lately, however, my wife Alice has taken to reading the paid death announcements…
