Reviews, San Miguel de Allende, Writings

For author and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, writing is a lot like poking the tiger with a stick

In 2003, I walked out of a San Diego theater struggling to explain the movie I had just seen. This was bad news in a way because I’m pretty sure that I’d been assigned to review it for the newspaper.

Maybe not. Reviewing movies was not my full-time gig with the paper. But I knew I had to write about it.

“It’s like … It’s like.” I stopped. Closed my eyes. Inhaled.

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Reviews, San Miguel de Allende

The charm of Molly Ringwald had the hearts of writing fans thumping Author! Author!

Cheer up all you ink-stained wretches of a dying breed, Molly Ringwald finds editing sexy.

Well, to be specific, she finds standing over the shoulder of her husband, the writer-editor Panio Gianopoulos, and watching him edit is very sexy.  Well, close enough. Maybe not enough to bring back editing in the Artificial Intelligence Age, but comforting just the same.

Somebody out there likes us!

Come to think of it, Molly Ringwald is pretty easy to like, too.

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