Category Archives: #MyKindOfBenedy

“You and what army, Harvey?”I hate serial fiction – franchise movies, series TV, multi-book sagas. That’s funny, considering that I’ve written at least a hundred stories about a serial character – Brother Willie. Even so, serial fiction bores me pretty … Continue reading →

I have good news: The world outside your mind is a a glorious paradise of infinite possibilities. The right kind of art will show you – and your children, and everyone’s children – how to see it that way from … Continue reading →

I wouldn’t call ‘The Founder’ a benedy. More like a docu-drama – with Dogberry. The business model stuff is excellent, Shark Tank with a plot. The family dynamics is right up my street: Ray Kroc builds an empire while breaking … Continue reading →

A woman’s place is in the home –as CEO of a staff of dozens.What would be Act IV of Kate and Leopold? Act I of A Doll’s House. And when Nora Helmer finally gets everything she’s been shaling for – … Continue reading →

Just when you thought nothing could be more enduringly funny than the shopping mall choo-choo train itself…1. As always, comedy is a misleading term, since you can make fun of people either as farce or as satire. 2. That comes … Continue reading →

Everyone knows how to motivate a villain. You have him rub his hands together with an evil relish and snarl, “Nyar har har har!”Kaptain Kobold / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) I wrote this on … Continue reading →

Love conquers all? Surely there are limits…For my friend Brian Brady, a movie that won’t be made, a flavor of satire informed by pathos: Sheesh! A romantic benedy in three acts. Gordon Gecko Goldblum – so named by his parents, … Continue reading →

Like everything else, the art of romance is upside down. Righting it is simply a matter of demonstrating why well-working real-life romances work so well: Because there is a man in charge.Photo by: Andrew CrumpA while ago I wrote about … Continue reading →

Keira Knightley charms as a jilted song-writer reluctantly effecting musically-disruptive retribution with a back-from-the-abyss record company exec played by Mark Ruffalo in Begin Again – very much #MyKindOfBenedy.Begin Again, currently Netflixable, is everything I look for in a benedy, a … Continue reading →

He’s forty and can’t figure out how to shave or do laundry, but, given enough time and tutelage, even he can figure out how to be a grown-up man.Young people are screwed – almost always only in the bad way. … Continue reading →

I am proud to know you, @LOR3LE1. @LOR3LE1 follows me. I’ve never felt such visibility. To capture her could set me free from self-contained obscurity. So please don’t let’s drive her away. I am ebullient, not addle-pated. I am rich … Continue reading →

The Judds’ tune “Why Not Me?” was covered on The Voice tonight, and you might-could listen to it while we talk about it: The lyrics to the song answer the question in the headline: The song is The Chorus to … Continue reading →

Imagine local ‘Shark Tank’-like events: What better way to communicate the idea that hard work pays off than with an event devoted to making hard work pay off!I’m coming at the idea of benedy every way I can think of. … Continue reading →

When I talk about the arc of a story, I don’t think I mean what everyone else means. What I mean is literally an arc, a visualization of the ideas of benedy and maledy in the simplest possible expression: I … Continue reading →