Did you see The Finest Hours? That's a really good Chris Pine movie. True story too. I know that area, where the story takes place. My cousins live in Chatham, my dad lives one town away, and I grew up going to a nearby town called Harwich in the summers. I have even been out in boats in the area at sea where all the action takes place, although, God knows, the weather conditions were a fuck of a lot better when I was there than they are in the movie. But anyway, who cares about my own connections to that area... it's just a great movie, telling a TRUE STORY, and Chris Pines plays his part in a very sympathetic way. His character just tries to do his job, even when he's scared, and he ends up being just unbelievably heroic.

You make the Dungeons and Dragons movie sound promising. I hope I like it. I think I know what you mean, it looks like it must not be easy to make those kinds of movies FUN. It also must be hard to capture the excitement of th printed page... I think a lot of the fun of those stories comes from the cool names the characters and places have, and seeing them in print. Just because they usually have some kind of old-fashioned spelling, and there is just something about the words that calls up a medieval or fantasy type of feeling. That isn't necessarily easy to translate to film. I remember I used to like Krull a lot, which is a very dungeons and dragonsy movie, but that might be the exception that proves the rule.