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  • Guest Blog by Jane Freese: A Fine Line

    Last month I was fortunate to witness a movie being made by Jordan Freese, assisted by Brendan Jamieson and featuring my husband Matt.  It took all day Saturday and most of Sunday to film (or rather digitally record) a teleplay that will probably end up running less than 15 minutes. I now have a greater […]

  • Guest Blog by Jane Freese: Dare to Examine Romney’s Mormonism

    At the Las Vegas Book Festival (Nov. 2), Sally Denton, author of American Massacre and Faith and Betrayal said that she was puzzled by the lack of scrutiny about Mitt Romney’s Mormonism Like Denton, I am a woman of Mormon ancestry, and I too am troubled by this lack of religious scrutiny. Being a Mormon […]

  • Commentary on Fathers and Sons

    Some time back I had suggested to my son, Jordan, that he do a videotape interview with me. I had recognized that I was an old man and I wanted to leave a remembrance of myself with my son by engaging in a father/son dialogue. After all, what is life but distilled memories, a lozenge […]

  • “Horrible Mistake”

    Jacques Tourneur directed some cult classics under the producer tutelage of Val Lewton in the early 40s, “The Cat People” and “I Walked With a Zombie.” And in 1957 he did   “Night of the Demon”/ “Curse of the Demon,” (UK) which I saw with my parents. My father was surprised and let down that Dana […]