Being Creative Is Having Something To Sell,

Picasso Has A Volatile, Explosive Presence. He Seems To Take Art Back To An Earlier Function, Before The Centuries Of Museums And Masterpieces; He Is The Artist As Clown, As Conjurer, As Master Funmaker.

Movies, Far More Than The Traditional Arts, Are Tied To Big Money. Without A Few Independent Critics, There's Nothing Between The Public And The Advertisers.

For Perhaps Most Americans, Tv Is An Apppliance, Not To Be Used Selectively But To Be Turned On - There's Always Something To Watch.

The Movies Have Been So Rank The Last Couple Of Years That When I See People Lining Up To Buy Tickets I Sometimes Think That The Movies Aren't Drawing An Audience - They're Inheriting An Audience. People Just Want To Go To A Movie. They're Stung Repeatedly, Yet Their Desire For A Good Movie - For Any Movie - Is So Strong That All Over The Country They Keep Lining Up.

There Seems To Be An Assumption That If You're Offended By Movie Brutality, You Are Somehow Playing Into The Hands Of The People Who Want Censorship. But This Would Deny Those Of Us Who Don't Believe In Censorship The Use Of The Only Counter-balance: The Freedom Of The Press To Say That There's Anything Conceivably Damaging In These Films - The Freedom To Analyze Their Implications. How Can People Go On Talking About The Dazzling Brilliance Of Movies And Not Notice That The Directors Are Sucking Up To The Thugs In The Audience?