I'm honored to be Normblog's Friday profile today. This is a good place to develop your dossier about me. I tried to keep my answers shortish so Norm wouldn't have to cross the Atlantic to pelt me with old scones, so there were people I ended up leaving off my lists of intellectual and cultural heroes (particularly the latter). They keep coming back to me, like one of those recurring dreams that you didn't turn in that 15-page undergraduate paper about Kim Novak as auteur—oh wait, that's true. Tim Clinton, I put you on my list of intellectual heroes because you taught me so much about film, and I swear I'll finish it if you'll let me.