As I draw ever closer to the end of life, I’ve become an utterly committed process geek, obsessively studying the way things work –– or don’t. This obsession is particularly acute in matters of group dynamics among striving humans, which is most often focused on the fates of actors and musicians coming together in pursuit of what they hope will be a transcendent outcome –– or on the fate of teams
*This story about fatherhood was written in the summer of 1996, when my dad was 72 –– the same age that I am now. The Fourth of July holiday gives me a chance to take my immediate family up to the desert above L.A., out to where my parents have settled now that my father has retired. The whole family gets together up there for this occasion, and my brother Greg puts together a clan-wide Croquet To
*This is a follow up from A Martinez after his previous piece on the Academy Awards and the Best Picture Nominees. As per the Vegas line, Nomadland did indeed win, and if we consider that Chloe Zhao also won for Best Director and Francis McDormand for Best Actress, it’s probably fair to call the picture’s victory a rout. Anthony Hopkins, the very definition of the lion in winter, was honored as B
The 2021 Oscar race is like no other in memory, as watching at home became the default for those millions of us who love the movies. Bathroom breaks got exponentially easier, and so did the possibilities for greater intimacy in the storytelling. In that vein, many wonderful films that might have gotten lost in a ‘normal’ year gained our attention, and though the other categories are equally worthy
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