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Wow, you don't think much of Rock in the last 40 years...;)
There are a few:
Philip K. Dick
Paul Auster
Cynthia Ozick
John Banville
W.G. Sebald
All of them are or were excellent novelists who never sold as much as they should have. Dick, of course, had a lot of his works made into films after his death, but he never saw the French and American academy recognize his works as brilliant Borgesian literature. Auster is esteemed even higher in France than in America and his Postmodernist aspect scares away readers. The same with Ozick who also doesn't sell because she's a woman who doesn't write about woman's issues per se. Banville is simply too difficult for readers, except for his Benjamin Black mysteries, and Sebald is too difficult for many as well.
What were the last three masterpieces of American film?
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I will choose post-war films:
Deer Hunter
Godfather II
Annie Hall
Dr. Strangelove
What make is the computer/smart phone you are now using?
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Apple...always
Who are the 3 greatest actresses working today?
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I will name actresses working fairly actively now: Streep, Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore is certainly talented and versatile. I think Jennifer Lawrence a bit too young to say she's great, but has talent and charisma.
Would you be an effective person working the telephones at a suicide prevention centre?
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For awhile, if trained well, sure. After too long, though, I couldn't bear listening to all that pain.
Would you change your relationship with your best same-sex friend if he or she revealed he or she were gay?
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No.
Does your primary friend or primary circle of friends have the same or similiar depths of literary, musical etc tastes as yourself?
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Not even close. Most of my closest friends are my surfer/stoner friends from high school or fraternity brothers from college.
Would you defend a friend's unjustified rudeness against someone you didn't like or would you rightly criticize it?
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I tend to be less forgiving with people I don't like due to the lessons I've learned in life about niceness - and where it does and does not get you.
Would like to remain working or in the future work in academia?
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But my question wasn't about forgiveness, my question was about criticizing rudeness. Do you always let rudeness slide, or do you just never criticize anybody over anything? You can both criticize and forgive.
So, that question and my last one: "Would you defend a friend's unjustified rudeness against someone you didn't like or would you rightly criticize it?"
Answer to yours" I've enjoyed working in academia for over 15 years, and plan to do so for at least 20 more.
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I would defend a friend if he was exercised unjustified rudenes to someone i didn't like - strictly for machiavellian reasons. This is a newer characteristic of my personality.
Do you set up a christmas tree?
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Always.
Would you teach such unethical Machiavellian behavior to your children, or would you teach them to do the right thing?
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I would teach them the right thing.
Would you live in a highrise?
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Once my daughter grows up.
Why would you teach them to do something you yourself don't believe in? If you think Machiavellian, unethical behavior is ok, why not teach them that or do the right thing, yourself? I'm sincerely curious
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Because there are many instances where doing the right thing is good for all. I cannot teach Machiavellian strategies as, in my view, such things are a bit like sex - you figure them out yourself. (the context I speak is unduly flavoured by work(corporate world) at this moment, and this is environment is absolutely machiavellian, after a certain level)
how old were you when you stopped believing in santa claus?
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But if you think defending a friend's unjustified rudeness against someone you don't like is the wrong thing, and you'd teach your kid to do the right thing and not do so because the right thing is good for all, then you shouldn't defend your friend's unjustified rudeness. You have to see that contradiction. If the right thing is good for all, then it has to be good for you as well.
So, teaching your kid to do what you consider the right thing for all, then not doing that right thing yourself, is both hypocrisy and hypocritical parenting. I say that as a parent of two who has had to walk that line myself. Being Macchavellian in no way negates the unethical nature of one's unethical behavior, particularly when one is a parent.
As to your question, what do you mean stopped believing?
What are the movies that have truly scared you?
