Filmnotes – November 2010
I hate to tell you this, but you may be too old for “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”(Universal Pictures, 2010, 112 minutes). It’s a tongue-in-cheek …
I hate to tell you this, but you may be too old for “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”(Universal Pictures, 2010, 112 minutes). It’s a tongue-in-cheek …
Cinema is a very unusual art form. Unlike painting, composing, writing, or sculpting, it is inherently a collaborative effort. To make a good movie, you …
The redneck and the black Thomas Sowell must be read to be believed. Merely to characterize him as a “black conservative,” as many people do, …
I don’t feel prepared so soon to judge Bill Bradford’s overall contributions to the movement, except to state what I hope is obvious: he sacrificed …
I called Bradford Spike. We were in Las Vegas at the Freedom Fest, the big conference put on by Mark Skousen when he was running …
It was early September 1995. The ink had barely dried on my new book, “Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical,” and Bill Bradford picked up the …
My favorite recollection of Bill relates to something that happened at Aspen in 1996. I had gone there at Doug Casey’s invitation to give a …
When Bill Bradford died, he took about half the memory of the libertarian movement with him. Bill probably knew more people of influence among libertarians …
Raymond William Bradford – “Raymond” was never used – was born in Detroit, Michigan, on Sept. 20, 1947, the son of Raymond and Eleanor Ritter …
I met Bill Bradford when I was in the ninth grade, and he was in the eleventh. We lived in a small town (about 18,000 …