Slackjaw: Stamina

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 21, 2006. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

The Orson Welles question has been coming up lately. The question being whether Welles’ slow, sad decline during the last 20 years of his life was his own doinga genius crippled by his own massive appetites and hubrisor was instead the result of a Hollywood System which crushed a true maverick. In short, was he
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Slackjaw: So You Want To Be A Film Critic?

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 14, 2006. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

Another sure thing that wasn't
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Slackjaw: Taken to the Cleaners

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 7, 2006. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

Sometimes doors just get in the way
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Slackjaw: She’s A Crack Shot, Too

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 17, 2006. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

Well, my mom said after I picked up the phone, last night it was my turn to spend the night in the hospital. I went a little numb. A few weeks earlier it had been my dad. She’d started having severe chest pains, so my dad called the rescue squad. After all the tests were
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Slackjaw: Life in Black & White

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 10, 2006. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

It was the roughest hangover to take hold in quite a while. Morgan and I had been at the bar for our share the night before, and after stumbling home I made the mistake of not eating anything. My own stupid fault. On the way into work the next morning I was still a little
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Slackjaw: Timing Is Everything

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 3, 2006. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

Attempting to forge an even minimally successful career as a writer (especially in New York) is dependent upon a number of factorsluck, connectionsof which talent is the least important, if it’s an issue at all. That’s a discouraging thing to say, maybe, but we live in a discouraging world. Besides, anyone who’s given it a
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Slackjaw: The Pain Amps Reunion

Written by Jim Knipfel on April 26, 2006. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

My old friend and partner in crime, Grinch, hates New York. It wasn’t always like that. Time was, he loved it hereloved Show World, loved the crackies who’d cluster and light up at 43rd & 8th in the middle of the day. Grinch is a connoisseur of filth, of all that is wrong and wicked.
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Still Waiting for Beckett

Written by Jim Knipfel on April 19, 2006. Posted in Books, Posts

Read all 2,136 pagesand then succumb to despair
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Slackjaw: Man in a Cage

Written by Jim Knipfel on March 22, 2006. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

I folded my cane, slipped it into my bag and entered the lobby of the office building. The lobby was empty, all but for the guy who manned the front desk, who was just wandering around. I’d been in this building before, and headed straight for the elevators. I felt my way to the button
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Slackjaw: My Coney Island of the Mind

Written by Jim Knipfel on March 8, 2006. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

It was like this. Late Tuesday afternoon, Morgan and I stopped into the bar to get a couple drinks. We’d been at another place earlier, but by 4:30 or so it had already come to resemble a frat party, so we split. We aren’t by nature bar hopperswe tend more toward hunkering down and riding
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