Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.
My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.
Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.
For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically.
As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.
Actors are the neediest people you're ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the wranglers, the money, everyone throwing everything at them every day of their lives -I think they're pretty much who they were before.
The Clash, in particular, transcends any category.
I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.
When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities - or even worse, injuries.
I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.
Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?