Directing...

Day 28 - Favorite movie from your favorite director

In all my long list of favourite movies, I don't think the same director directed any two of them. I don't much like the work most of the really famous Hollywood directors.... so I'll simply cut to the chase and name Peter Jackson for his brilliant work on The Lord of the Rings.

He did the impossible.

Questions about books...

for August 19, 2010:

( Questions and answers about reading... )

55. Favourite guilt-free, pleasure reading?

I never feel guilty about what I read. I have no shame.

Looking at Shakespeare...

James Baldwin: Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare.

...I feared him, too, feared him because, in his hands, the English language became the mightiest of instruments. No one would ever write that way again. No one would ever be able to match, much less surpass, him.