Writing
Notes from the work
Six decades in film and publishing, written down as it happened — on producing, writing, the industry, and the people in it.
Essays
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Animals Aren't Human
What sets us apart from the animals, our ability to laugh, to see the funny side of things. Animal lovers will always insist that their pet dog, cat, mongoose, fish or lizard is laughing, smiling o…
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Nationalize Me Too!
Like most of you we are struggling through the global financial meltdown. Personally I have a solution, which I shall now float to you, my peers, to see if it is reasonable.
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A Hope
When you leave the players building that leads to the Centre Court of the world famous Wimbledon tennis championships there are a couple of lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling that read, “if you can…
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Why It's Wrong
Certain things seem so obvious to me that I feel there should be no need to write them in a blog or article. But then something comes along that shakes the foundations of your beliefs.
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The Three Ages
William Shakespeare wrote about the seven ages of man. I think there are the three ages of exercise. I am fairly long into the third age but maybe there’s also a fourth age beckoning, when I just t…
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Human Faces
No one can criticize the Beijing Olympics for their efficiency, scope or scale. It is simply awe inspiring and magnificent. Nevertheless its enormity renders it impersonal and somewhat robotic.
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Fascist Future
The Fascists in pre-War Italy and Germany took away liberties whilst re-directing the attention of their populations. It was the same kind of cheap trick that a magician might use, the trick of sle…
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Editing
There is something mysterious happening with the news on our televisions in Britain. I have worked in and taught about the media, so I know a little about how it’s organized. We all realize that th…
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WORDS WE WON’T USE
I don’t know about you, but I am getting so fed up with certain words. Every day I hear these words, and every day I get more annoyed by them. I’ve come to the conclusion that they use these words …
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Films And The Super Ego
This started out as a series of reviews on current films, Ad Astra, Downtown Abbey and Rambo Last Blood and a new TV series of Catherine the Great and then it turned into something else.
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Sports Morality
There have been several sports stars, both in the UK and US, who have behaved appallingly. It’s not hard to imagine that this has always happened, but in days gone by it was largely unknown. There …
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ASSUMPTIONS
You know the saying, don’t ASSUME, as it can make an ASS out of U and ME! This is very clearly true when we measure our reaction to other cultures and civilizations. We believe we have the ultimate…
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DAN AMATEUR SPORTSMAN
Today I have given over my space to a visiting writer, my son, Dan Klinger. He is, according to his mother, about 6’6” of solid, masculine magnificence. To me he is also a paragon of everything tha…
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Passion
Passion is a word that we in the UK don’t employ very easily or readily. We have become easier with passion in recent years, so it’s said, since the huge public emotional outpouring which followed …
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A GOOD MAC STORY
Sometimes we should give credit where it's due. A very good friend purchased a Mac Mini and Thunderbolt Display from Apple last year. There were some problems and the guys at the Genius Bar and the…
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Museum in Docklands
This week I was at a meeting in London and had the good fortune to be able to give the MUSEUM IN DOCKLANDS a quick visit.
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Scotland – Enough Already!
We've all heard every conceivable argument as to the pros and cons of Scotland either becoming an independent nation or staying within the UK. We are confident that democracy has been amply served …
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Lessons from Pops
My grandfather was not an economist, he was a tailor’s presser, not far up the food chain in terms of macro economic theory, but he possessed more common sense in one of his strong fingers than our…
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SONGS OF INNOCENCE?
I'm listening to the new U2 album, Songs of Innocence, which arrived via social media as a free download. Is this the future of marketing and digital delivery; the consumer will receive new creativ…
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Film
What makes good entertainment? Perhaps its obvious, but needs saying nevertheless, different forms of entertainment entertain different people. Thus an ever widening, diverse and changing menu of e…
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"How to get a film Made"
Almost every day I get asked by someone how to get a film made. The answer is simple, but doing it is difficult.
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Being Insured
I am a fervent believer in insurance. My belief is that if I am insured nothing can happen to me. It’s my good luck wrapped in a policy. Bad things cannot happen to those that are insured. I acknow…
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GENDER FLUIDITY - IS THIS HOW YOU GIVE ME A BREAK FROM BREXIT!
I suspect I’m like you and am so happy to be away from Brexit, even if only for the odd moment. As a person who has been on this earth quite a while, I promise it will all get settled one day in th…
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Old Fashioned Values
A few days ago a cousin telephoned to tell me that her cousin, on her dad’s side, was in town from Georgia, USA. Would I like to join them for dinner?
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