The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful book delivers almost as much fun as the film itself.

In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.

Joanne Woodward’s Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.

Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

It may not of happened the way you thought it would, but in the long run it will work out as it should.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

I graduated from college in 1980.

I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.

It's the things one might have said that fester.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.

Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.