After working all night like a fool I came in and fell asleep so that the entire day was shot and now, here I am wide awake with the next 2 days being plenty busy and stressful.
I did work quite a bit on my piece on "The Public Enemy". It was a great film but it's hard to get a new angle on a film that 73 years old and an acknowledged classic. I feel justified because there are a lot of things about this film that I think most critics have missed or ignored.
For one thing the general take is that this is a view of Jimmy Cagney's character rising to the top of the mob. There's no evidence of this at all. In fact he's a stooge for a top gun, and it's made very clear that he is barely out of his teens. It's hard to imagine what I could add that would extend people's comprehension of the film and their comprehension of people. Which is why the net and blogs are so cool.
Isn't that more interesting than how stressed I am? Well, maybe if you were a film student.
I like this picture someone e-mailed me. It made me smile. This just makes you flinch:

BILLIONS AT DISC RISK Opposing studios say no way to Sony's Blu-ray format The biz is bracing for Betamax -- the sequel. In a decision reminiscent of the tech conflict that changed the industry forever, three studios -- Warner, Universal and Paramount -- have taken sides in a battle for the next-generation DVD market by endorsing a format, HD DVD, that will compete with one backed by Sony.