My contribution here is outside the mainstream of plot summaries and production teams. I get into those things when it makes sense, but for the most part I figure you can get that anywhere on the Internet or off the magazine rack at your grocery store checkout line.

What moves me to write are the bigger contexts into which movies and music and television fit. The specific struggle of a meaningful character, changed by the process we go through with him here. When you hear "I've Got You Babe" sung by Sony & Cher, what is the "all" that comes down on you to make that experience?

I dunno about you, but I can certainly share what it is to me. So I do.

Leave the high-brow stuff to someone else. Nothing goes on my website because simply it's been labeled a classic — by any source. To me, Dallas is one of the best story lines of all time, and As Good as it Gets seeks to advance one of the most reprehensible messages I can imagine among mainstream interpersonal dynamics.

Talk radio is my favorite genre, and I partake of it quite a bit. On that, let me say that Dr. Joy Browne is far superior to Dr. Laura Schlessinger when it comes to fundamentals and education. Dr. Laura, on the other hand, is a better public servant via the radio.

Did I mention controversy as piece of this area in my website?

Come on! analysis can be fun. And if this place was like everywhere else, why spend your time here? That said, you also have my promise that there's nothing gratuitous here.