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...Dylan is wandering around his history, making changes as he sees fit. The veteran folk-rocker says his inspiration comes directly from God. "I've had a God-given sense of destiny," says Dylan. "This is what I was put on earth to do. Just like Shakespeare was gonna write his plays, the Wright brothers were gonna invent an airplane, like Edison was gonna invent a telephone, I was put here to do this. I knew I was gonna do it better than anybody ever did it." Well, actually, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. But who says...
...site like mine is that I do not have an editor or a publisher pressuring me to give a film a good review. The editorial freedom I have allows me to blast any and all films that deserve it--something I have to do with alarming frequency. Yes, I write screenplays. Yes, I would love to see one produced someday. But lying to myself and my readers in order to ingratiate myself with the studios is not a price I'm willing to pay. MARYANN JOHANSON New York City...
...long ago, it was hard to write a column. Guys like Mike Royko used to have to get up from their desks, get into a car and ask people questions in neighborhoods that were sometimes dicey. Neighborhoods, I'm told, that had no decent restaurants for expense lunches. Back then, when the concept of news was limited to what happens to other people, editors wouldn't even consider something as monumental as a columnist's own mother's wedding to be newsworthy...
Without King, I wouldn't be able to write this column, or at least not in a way that takes only 20 minutes a week. I took King's concept of typing up every minuscule thought that crosses my head and expanded it. Instead of just wasting the thought in one sentence, as he does, I stretch each passing fancy into an entire article: I hate dogs...I never get Daylight Savings Time right...The Post Office is one well-run organization...Happy birthday, Robert Goulet...Boy, do I love porn stars...
...future, all columnists will write about me, or, if need be, themselves. Opinions on news aren't worth as much as they once were, being yelled as they are from every corner of the TV screen. Instead, in these Real World times, columnists can serve an important new role: providing a voyeuristic glimpse into the life of anyone, whether a cranky Jew in braces or an oversexed Jew who recently got his braces taken off. Either way, it can offer an uncomfortably revealing glimpse into the feelings of another person. And that, I believe, is a part of what...