Clinton Stark
Stark Insider TV: Glenn Close
"Independent film is a movie that almost doesn't get made. They're called independent because they're not formula." -- Glenn Close, Mill Valley Film Festival.
Mill Valley Film Festival preview
30th Anniversary: Raiders of the Lost Ark - the Spielberg blockbuster that reinvented the serial and created a lifetime of famous quotes and catchphrases - receives a special screening.
Art of the Silicon Valley publicity stunt: Ellison vs. Benioff
Give me my million back, I'll take my dreamy keynote to St. Regis. Bagels and Clouds for all!
Stark Sips: 2010 Honker Blanc Sauvignon Blanc ($14, 88 pts.)
No one, it seems, just drinks a glass of wine anymore. They savor the terroir, wax poetic about vines... sing about exotic grapes like Fiano.
Scoring Tim Cook, Apple iPhone 5… oops 4S
And... greeting cards?! Talk about filler. Next time, they should just stop the presentation, and have us all do the downward dog.
Scoring Adobe: HTML5, Creative Cloud, Touch Apps
Cutting loose Flash and embracing open source are wins.
Napa Wines: 5 picks from Mount Veeder
Tom Meadowcroft on how he ended up making wine for the A.J. Foyt racing team: "They just called me up, and said 'Hey, I hear you make good wine.'"
Is the BlackBerry PlayBook getting axed?
It looks like it's easier for the likes of Apple and Google to sell to the enterprise than it is for RIM to sell to the consumer.