Monument Valley
or Once Upon a Time at the Movies by Douglas Brode One of CNY's most prolific writers, both of fiction and non-fiction, is Doug Brode. An actor, a tv show personality, a writer, a professor, and an avid fan of film, Doug has investigated and written about such diverse personalities as Lee Harvey Oswald, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Walt Disney, Steven Spielberg, and Woody Allen. If you take a boy born in New York City as the world is moving on from the post-war era to the counterculture (or as Doug would suggest, Walt to Woodstock), put him in a movie theatre with a rapidly developing appetite for what movies have to "say," and sprinkle that with a fasciation with Westerns, culture, politics, and the "meaning" of it all - perhaps what you'd get is Doug Brode. But this reviewer would also note that the sheer size of Brode's oeuvre also indicates incredible scholarship and dedication to his art. He is on the shelves of mysteries, histories, graphic ...
