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...talking to yourself is just a way of thinking things over, of processing ideas through articulation, a sort of audible shadowboxing. The deaf woman turns her brain waves into fast-forward hand dancing. Same thing." As a writer, I talk to myself in order to try out ideas--a rough draft recited to the pigeons--before writing them down. A playwright must speak the lines aloud. What's crazy about that...
Truman's trek will take him on a rough sailing to the edge of his universe--so close he can literally touch it--and to the shattering answers to the questions consuming him. This makes The Truman Show a quest movie. Our hero's need to know himself and his place in the universe gives the viewer a passionate rooting interest. But like any supple parable, the film allows for several plausible interpretations. It is also about control--the control we try to exercise over ourselves and others, using stratagems of love, hope and fear. Most people think they have...
DIED. MONTIE MONTANA, 87, rough-riding cowboy who left the Montana range to appear in silver-screen westerns alongside John Wayne and Roy Rogers; in Santa Clarita Valley, Calif. A skilled lassoer of barnyard beasts, Montana was more famous for hitching humans: he roped President Eisenhower during Ike's 1953 Inaugural parade...
...Monsters (1968), from the oversize Japanese nationalist who takes on a visiting American ape in King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) and from the wholesome environmentalist wrestling a mess of sludge in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1972). Poor thing. With apologies to Sondheim: "First you're everyone's rough-hide scamp; then the other monster; then you're camp...
...Rough Road to Recovery...