Thomas Hines

Two American Actors

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Possible Opening #1: Defensive Apologies --They'll tell you that art imitates life and that popular art reflects popular life. They'll

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P ITY THE poor immigrant: Russian movies have a tough time of it here in America. The usual schema involves

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We live in perilous times--or at least splayed ones. It's not so much that things are going to hell in

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The first U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week declared unconstitutional a Massachusetts law that had allowed the Holy Cross

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A BOUT ten minutes into Cutter's Way, something strange happens. What's gone before has been strictly cinematic--scenes that have become

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The woman stared at Nunheim dully and said, "I don't like crooks, and even if I did. I wouldn't like

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S AM SHEPARD lives in that very rare space between hallucination and vision. It is the place inhabited by all

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M EASURE FOR MEASURE has always been one of the most problematic of Shakespeare's plays. It's kind of mutant tragedy,

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I've never read Gentlemen's Quarterly, and I've never really liked anyone who did--they always struck me as people who thought

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"Here's the thing," a man from Burgaw County, North Carolina, is telling me. "It weren't like what people think." Burgaw