A scholar who worked with him for decades observes that what mattered to Moyers was not how close you were to power, but how close you got to reality.
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The culture wars have been around forever, but keep taking new forms, and US variants threaten to spill over to Australia – as seen in the recent (overturned) ban on same-sex parenting books in Sydney.
People might go to the movies to escape reality. Yet Barbie and Ariel choose to live in the world their audiences inhabit − and, in doing so, decide to die.
Film sagas like Star Wars transcend the screen, connecting viewers to their pasts, to one another and to the hero within.
When you tell someone a story, do you plan it out beforehand so that it’ll sound good? Do you carefully plot what you’ll say, in a specific order? Or does the story find a way of telling itself, the plot…
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