I became enchanted with movies when I was very young.  I have seen thousands of them in my quest to find films of intelligence and heart.  What great happiness whenever I discover a great film I did not know!

           I was chairman of the Oberlin College film society.  I carried Pauline Kael in my arms across the mud at the Cleveland Airport and perhaps something from that experience rubbed off on me—more Pauline than mud I hope!  After teaching English at Tunghai University in Taiwan I returned to America and acted off-Broadway with Spalding Gray.  (I was a half-naked Indian beaten up and dragged across the stage by Spalding and his fellow soldiers!)  I was the film critic at ArtWeek in San Francisco and went on to write about film for The Boston Globe and Maine Public Radio.

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