![]() (Only in New York!)ģ) Maggie Gyllenhaal, "World Trade Center" That clinched my job at the ever-contrarian Voice, and I have simply gone on from there.So, how contrarian is the "reviled revisionist" 46 years later? Let's see: I have long ago become resigned to my fate as a reviled revisionist ever since my first column in The Village Voice in 1960 hailed Alfred Hitchcock as a major artist for "Psycho," and inspired more hate mail than any Voice column had received up to that time. So, with the proviso that I still have a great deal of catching up to do, here are my considered choices for the various 10-best categories, and one of my patented 10-worst lists under the provocative heading of “Movies Other People Liked and I Didn’t.” I am not at all deterred in dishing out my annual supply of negativity by the correspondent who informed me last year that he preferred all the films on my 10-worst list to all the films on my 10-best list. In his New York Observer year-end wrap-up (and ten-best list), Andrew Sarris attempts to steal the thunder of one of his New York "alternative weekly" rivals.įortunately, modern technology makes it almost impossible for a good movie to get “lost” because of end-of-the-year mental exhaustion. Besides, it was a nice afternoon in Vancouver and her condo has a view of False Creek.smile. For of all the friends I have, she's the most different from myself the contrast between us, a never-ending source of delight. I saw her recently and took photos so that I might show and tell, in here. ![]() We lost touch after high school, moving in different directions til in the wake of a trip to Venice and eager to practice my bad Italian and bore friends with tales of my travels abroad, I sought her out again.We've kept in touch ever since, meeting whenever schedules permit Marta traveling more than most (she's a wine Sommelier) living partly in Lucca, Italy, and happily in sin with her significant other, the great Francesco. Micheal's where I met my Canadian-Italian chum, Marta Chiavacci (key-a-vah-chee) who was born here to Italian immigrants. Peter's, Our Lady of Mercy (which was anything but) and finally St. Marie writes: I attended three different elementary schools St.
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