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I'm a writer from Maine. I have an MFA degree in Creative Writing and a BA in Political Science; neither of which has made me rich.
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Author: Steve Allan

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Best of the Decade: #20: Death to Smoochy

Dec 8, 2009
#20 Death to Smoochy This has to be one of the most criminally under appreciated movies of the last decade. Roger Ebert actually chose this as the worst movie of 2002, but he was so wrong. Death to Smoochy is a work of dark comic genius. Its comedy...

Best of the Decade: #21: Mystic River

Dec 8, 2009
#21 Mystic River To give you an idea of the impact this film has had, I'll outline a familiar conversation I've had with a lot of people. It goes like this: "You went to grad school for writing?" "Yeah." "Any famous instructors?" "Dennis...

Best of the Decade: #22: Changing Lanes

Dec 7, 2009
#22 Changing Lanes The studio wanted you think this was some revenge thriller in the same vein as Double Jeopardy or some other piece of shit. It's not, it is something much more gripping than a superficial concept. Instead this film is about two men...

Best of the Decade: #23: Zoolander

Dec 7, 2009
#23 Zoolander Oh, how many of these types of lists fail to mention the stupid? Sure, you have your Schindler's Lists and Raging Bulls, but what about the movies that make you laugh because they are so ridiculous? To rectify this injustice, I give you...

Best of the Aughts: #24 Road to Perdition

Dec 4, 2009
#24 Road to Perdition The role of Michael Sullivan is not your typical Tom Hanks nice guy. He's a mob enforcer working for crime boss Paul Newman; but he's not malicious about it. He's almost a sympathetic mobster (probably the one sort of false note...




Paul B.
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  Interesting indeed!
Posted 12/14/08 3:12 AM


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  how can words paste the puzzle together, it slips away from the aged hands that are trying to complete the maze that life has given her. she sits by the bedside, with dim light, hopeing that someone remembers that she is there. Sartre jumped off the train outside Paris, with Genet, they decided to be hobos on the Seine... roscoebeauregard.blogspot .com dare to read. dare to burn a book. for literacy.
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