What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.

A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.

It's not the tailor that makes the man.

The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

Black is a girl's best friend.

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

As time goes on you are given responsibility and other things to deal with. You become a husband and a father and there's another shirt of stuff.

Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.