Penn, Depp … and Campbell Scott

“What is a blog? Will you explain that to me?” Campbell Scott politely asked last week over chicken noodle soup, head tilted to one side, listening intently to the answer. “So it’s different than a chat, then?”

The ‘T’ in ‘chat’ was clipped, the consonant-stomp a hallmark of a voice trained to project nuance from Read More

Ouch! The Secret Life of Dentists: Weird But Faithful Pros

Alan Rudolph’s The Secret Lives of Dentists , from a screenplay by Craig Lucas, based on Jane Smiley’s novella The Age of Grief , is the most passionate defense of monogamy and marriage from a male perspective that I’ve ever seen in an American movie. Yet too many reviewers have undervalued the film, describing it Read More