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Jeffrey Overstreet

30 Apr 2005
Filed under: On Movies & Media • Quotable • Jennifer Jason Leigh

Via Movie City News, Jennifer Jason Leigh:

"In mainstream movies the woman’s role is mostly just to prove that the leading man is heterosexual. I’m not good at that, and I’m not interested in that.”
Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings of 2025: introduction and honorable mentions

Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings of 2025: introduction and honorable mentions

If only with candles and stars Broken light from dreams like ours We will still find our way through to love . . . — Sam Phillips, “Candles and Stars” By the age of 13, I was a devoted listener to Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40. Every week, I’d turn the delicate dial
18 Jan 2026 13 min read
7 Walks with Mark Brown: a brilliant way to start a new year of movies

7 Walks with Mark Brown: a brilliant way to start a new year of movies

[Streaming on Hoopla.] Today, I listened to a podcast in which Father James Martin talks about how to begin 2026 with a “spiritual reset.” Then, I went home and watched 7 Walks with Mark Brown. And I experienced a spiritual reset.
17 Jan 2026 6 min read
A memorable evening with John Williams’s biographer

A memorable evening with John Williams’s biographer

On January 8, I interviewed Tim Greiving about his extraordinary journey to becoming the first biographer of the great John Williams.
13 Jan 2026 4 min read
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