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Back from Hiatus

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Hey! I took a vacation, too! (No. No, I did not.) It is increasingly difficult to write about entertainment these days, but I think it’s important to. It’s not a matter of distraction with bread and circuses (we have state-sanctioned media for that); the arts are what can sustain us at the highest and best levels, spiritually. At the very least, a movie, a play, a concert, a TV show can give us a break from the madness of our current  Over the past three weeks, I’ve been laid up (and recovered, thank you) and preoccupied with what precisely I do want to write about (other than politics over at the other place). It’s not as though I haven’t watched anything over the past three weeks. Quite the contrary, I’ve watched a shit-ton of stuff. There’s been an embarrassment of riches; repertory cinema over at the River Oaks and (surprise!) my local Regal theater. The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and more. In the wake of Robert Redford’s passing,   The Sting   and  ...