Is there ever going to be a year I’m sorry to see end? I seem to remember that happening. In any event, bring on 2024.
2023 did turn out to be when I returned to blog-style writing. It just happened to be at Substack, that’s all. Here’s what happened at Cocktails and Crime this month.
It’s a Shane Black Christmas made its debut over there.
I started doing the program outlined in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, which meant dealing with the terrors of reading deprivation week. I also reviewed Sam Wasson’s The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story.
I decided to start taking financial advice from movie directors, a choice that I’m sure will not backfire.
25 years of Zero Effect, the great private eye movie featuring a final terrific turn from the late Ryan O’Neal.
