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I have a confession to make.

There is a skeleton in my closet.

I've kept it hidden away for years, but the time has come to open the door on the awful truth...

I AM A RECOVERING ACADEMIC.

I'm a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Pomona College, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow with an M.A. and Ph.D from Princeton, and a former Associate Professor of English at DePauw University.

I'm so ashamed.

But I've enrolled in a twelve-step program that has saved my life as well as my very soul.

I have renounced jargon and my addiction to it.

I have suppressed my contempt for the intellectual pygmies who surround me and have embraced humility.

I am even trying hard to listen to voices other than my own.

It's a monumental struggle; there have been set-backs; and
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The End of the Affair

A ripped movie ticket in front of a movie marquee.

Those of you who know me know that I’ve always been head over heels in love with the movies. I gave up the total security of a tenured professorship to come to Hollywood and ride the Tinseltown roller coaster. The dizzying up and downs did nothing to abate my passion for film. They simply fed my romantic obsession. But now, my friends, it is my sad duty to announce the end of the affair.

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“Any movie that gets made is a miracle. A good one is the second coming.”
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“Heads roll in Hollywood, but they usually roll into another studio.”
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