An incredibly indepth ("why did your mother and father commit suicide?") and long interview with screenwriter Lem Dobbs (Dark City, The Limey) :

If only the Jews still controlled Hollywood. In the late 60s/early 70s you could get a movie made starring Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Elliott Gould, George Segal, George Burns, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Walter Matthau, Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, Richard Dreyfuss, Dustin Hoffman, Mel Brooks, Barbara Hershey, Henry Winkler, Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Robby Benson, Alan Arkin, Dyan Cannon, Barry Newman, Jerry Lewis, Peter Falk, Harvey Keitel, Laurence Harvey, Charles Grodin, Gene Wilder, Elaine May, Jill Clayburgh, Ali MacGraw, Joan Collins, Anthony Newley, Goldie Hawn, Marty Feldman -- and Topol.

Today? Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Sasha Baron Cohen, Shia LaBeouf, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Connelly, Sean Penn -- and at least three of them are the progeny of older Hollywood. Notice the slight drop-off in quantity and quality? Screenwriters and directors and composers and studio executives -- same story.

On a one-week visit to New York in the early 70s when my father had an exhibition there, I went to see The Exorcist (Friedkin), Serpico (Lumet), Papillon (Schaffner), with Dustin Hoffman, Mean Streets, with Harvey Keitel, The Getaway, a Foster-Brower production, Westworld, with Brynner and Benjamin, and Woody Allen’s Sleeper.

Wanna see what’s playing in New York this week?

Here's what's playing in New York this week : Avatar, Up In The Air, The Lovely Bones, Sherlock Holmes and....errr....The Tooth Fairy.