M.V. Moorhead: 9 Nerd-Insulting and/or Generally Annoying Things About Birdman

M.V. Moorhead: 9 Nerd-Insulting and/or Generally Annoying Things About Birdman:

A great, wide-ranging essay by my friend M.V. Moorhead (who, by the way, in 2001 directed and acted in this film I wrote). My favorite part:

The apotheosis of Raymond Carver drove me nuts during the release of Altman’s 1993’s Short Cuts, too. Carver was a fine prose craftsman, and a capable practitioner of a certain type of austere, downbeat literary short story. He was very good, at his best.

But the way Carver’s n...