Praise Without Merit Is More Harmful Than

The Ability Of So Many People To Live Comfortably With The Idea Of Capital Punishment Is Perhaps A Clue To How So Many Europeans Were Able To Live With The Idea Of The Holocaust: Once You Accept The Notion That The State Has The Right To Kill Someone And The Right To Define What Is A Capital Crime, Aren't You Halfway There?

Of What Use Is Freedom Of Speech To Those Who Fear To Offend?

Some Movies Run Off The Rails. This One Is Like The Train Crash In The Fugitive. I Watched It In Mounting Gloom, Realizing I Was Witnessing Something Historic, A Film That For Decades To Come Will Be The Punch Line Of Jokes About Bad Movies.

I Don't Require Movies To Be About Good People, And I Don't Reject Screen Violence.

Nothing Ever Seems Straightforward In Venice, Least Of All Its Romances.