Author Archives: Bob Hill

“I understand, alright, the hopeless dream of being – not seeming, but being – at every waking moment, alert. The gulf between what you are with others and what you are alone; the vertigo and the constant hunger to be … Read More

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“I’m one of the last of the optimists about the future of the motion picture industry and Hollywood. But I really believe that all of my colleagues who love film and know nothing else, if the end of the world … Read More

The problem with Superman – at least so far as I can tell – is that the moviegoing public has simply outgrown his iconography. This happens to be one of the few self-referential points that 2006’s Superman Returns actually nailed right … Read More … Read More

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has certainly committed to this whole Civil War Era thing. In addition to “Photography And The Civil War” and a series of related 19th Century lithographs lining the main hallway of the American Wing, the … Read More

“Two things are still the great currency, even in this golden age of television: sex and violence. If you have hot people hooking up, then you’ve got one; then you’re spending one currency. And if you’re blowing shit up and … Read More

It takes a lapse in judgment to make someone a convict, but it takes a crooked system to make someone a criminal. It’s a literary concept that dates all the way back to Dickens and Poe, if not Shakespeare and … Read More … Read More

“The Left Wing talk about giving power to the people. Anybody knows that the people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people. The people are unaware. It’s like they’re not educated to … Read More

Somewhere along the line, I had developed boardwalk eyes – an unnatural instinct for seeing the wayward angles clearly. I knew how to pinpoint which game operators were skimming money, which ride operators were skimming tickets, and which small business … Read More

Last month, the Howard Greenberg Gallery debuted “1963” – a group exhibition of black and white photos which chronicled everything from Bob Dylan and The Beatles to the assassination of President Kennedy. As of today, the gallery adds a month-long … Read More