Film Is A Collaborative Business: Bend Over.

The Most Charming Of Theories Holds That Someone Other Than Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare's Plays -- That He Was Of Too Low A State, And Of Insufficient Education. But Where In The Wide History Of The World Do We Find Art Created By The Excessively Wealthy, Powerful, Or Educated?

The Popularity Of Disaster Movies Expresses A Collective Perception Of A World Threatened By Irresistible And Unforeseen Forces Which Nevertheless Are Thwarted At The Last Moment. Their Thinly Veiled Symbolic Meaning Might Be Translated Thus: We Are Innocent Of Wrongdoing. We Are Attacked By Unforeseeable Forces Come To Harm Us. We Are, Thus, Innocent Even Of Negligence. Though Those Forces Are Insuperable, Chance Will Come To Our Aid And We Shall Emerge Victorious.

The Founders Recognized That Government Is Quite Literally A Necessary Evil, That There Must Be Opposition, Between Its Various Branches, And Between Political Parties, For These Are The Only Ways To Temper The Individual's Greed For Power And The Electorates' Desires For Peace By Submission To Coercion Or Blandishment.

No One Enjoys Being Equal.

A Man Stands Alone At The Plate. This Is The Time For What? For Individual Achievement. There He Stands Alone. But In The Field, What? Part Of A Team.