“The Slipper and The Rose”—Symmetry in Storytelling
Though initially something of a mystery, the title of the Sherman Brothers’ 1976 musical adaptation of “Cinderella” is the primary clue to its value. “The Slipper and the Rose” proposes a symmetry, a duality of attention, in how it treats the main leads and their situations. And it is in these complementary and crossing paths…
Vintage New Year’s Eve Movies
After the Thin Man, 1936 Set immediately after the Christmastime events of “The Thin Man,” “After the Thin Man” finds Nick (William Powell) and Nora (Myrna Loy) speeding to San Francisco to spend the New Year’s holiday with her family. Between Aunt Katherine’s teetotaling reprimands to Nick, and Cousin Selma’s missing husband, “After the Thin…
MBTI Functions as Fictional Genres
It may well be that certain personality types gravitate toward particular genres of fiction; at the very least, it can be said that some genres embody many of the unique attributes of personality articulated in the functions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). In this system, each personality type has a dominant preference for either…
The Intentional Ordinary 