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Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

  By Dave Smith | December 15, 2014 - 8:01 pm | Miscellaneous
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NOTE: Spoilers follow. Where to start with Birdman? It is brilliant to have Michael Keaton, who has always been first rate, carry as extraordinary a picture as this one. All those years since the Batman movies doing smaller, sincere pictures, cable work, and voiceovers, and now here he is in … Continue reading →

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Revising Oron

  By Dave Smith | December 1, 2013 - 3:43 pm | Miscellaneous
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Oron, originally written in 1973-1974 and published by Zebra Books in 1978, is going to be reissued by Wildside Press/Borgo Press—next year, I hope, but relatively soon, in any event. I’ve scanned in the text—all 93,000 words of it—and am now revising the novel. I have several reasons for doing … Continue reading →

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Building a Story: Walt Disney’s Cinderella

  By Dave Smith | November 4, 2013 - 9:16 pm | Miscellaneous
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If I were ever to teach a class in basic storytelling, especially one in which the class and I discussed popular imaginative fiction, I might very well start off with this book as a perfect example of how to structure a story. The edition of the Walt Disney Cinderella story … Continue reading →

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The Years That Pass That Are Not Past

  By Dave Smith | October 26, 2013 - 10:10 am | Miscellaneous
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When I was a kid—10, 12 years old and later—I used to stay up late at night on Fridays and Saturdays and watch old movies. Monster movies hosted by Ghoulardi on channel 8 in Cleveland, for a while there, in the early sixties, but later, just about anything—film noir from … Continue reading →

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