Never stop, never stop.

Star Wars. Go ____ yourself.

Star Wars. Go ___ yourself.

I shouldn’t. Can’t. Ever stop, that is. Especially when there is a debt to pay. Never ever ever stop. Owe her.

My wife taught me about movies that need no English. How many of you have been taught by your spouse?

I taught her about Shane and The Outlaw Josie Wales. Smart me. Then she lowered the boom and gave me the greatest combat scenes any guy could ever hope to see. The lesson is called humility.

Eisenstein. Alexander Nevsky. The Battle of the Ice. Couldn’t have made LOTR without it, some 60 years later. (After repeated attempts, the Russians don’t want us to blog this masterpiece of film art.) So go see it here at Youtube.

Orson Welles. The greatest battle scene never released in a movie. Henry IV. Fought in the fog. Eerie and beautiful and terrifying.

Abel Gance. Napoleon’s Russian campaign. Heartbreaking. Even in the post 1927 version. Who was this guy? And maybe the best likeness of Napoleon ever.

Which makes it harder to explain all the subsequent hooey about you know who….

Sorry. I have to laugh. Russians are secretive about things they should be proud of. Like defeating Napoleon. Truth is, there are just a handful of people in history I’d ever want to meet. None of them Russians. Who’s on your list? Mine is in single digits. Akhenaton. Jesus Christ. Napoleon Bonaparte. Abraham Lincoln. Nobody else interests me. What would you say to Bach or Mozart? I like your work? Well, maybe Ambrose Bierce. What does it feel like to be actually evil?

If I were Sicilian, I'd be taller than Al Pacino too.

If I were Sicilian, I’d be taller than Al Pacino too.

Guys. Many times your wives are better than you. Like me, you should learn to rejoice in that fact and learn. What does she need me for? Telling the deerhound to lie down in a loud voice. That I’m good at.

Why I never stop telling her how much more I know about movies than she does. She just smiles that smile, and then we have eggs and bacon. I can ruin them the way she likes them.