Dump Thing By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 1999 by Sarah Stegall Review of “Arcadia” Writer: Daniel Arkin Director: Michael Watkins “The thrill is gone.” — Fox Mulder Faced with the toughest housing crunch and highest real estate prices in the nation, Californians will do almost anything for a nice house in a decent neighborhood with clean streets. Even, perhaps, sell their souls for it. If you’ve recently priced single-family detached homes in San Diego, Los Angeles, or Palo Alto, the devil looks like a below-market lender without the points and fees. Sticker shock has driven more would-be Californians back to…
Posts Tagged‘tv reviews’
The X-Files: “Monday”
Practicing Random Acts By Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1999 by Sarah Stegall “Monday” Written by Vince Gilligan and John Shiban Directed by Kim Manners In Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park”, mathematician Ian Malcolm attempts to explain chaos theory using the “butterfly effect”: depending on whether a butterfly in Beijing flaps its wings, there is or is not rain in Central Park. Small, seemingly haphazard events add up to enormous, unpredictable consequences beyond our knowledge and control. And yet, in the midst of all these innumerable random events, there is order. The cynics among us may say that we humans, who specialize in…