Today I watched, Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision by pandering to the prevailing taste of the collective soul.

"The Fountainhead" is one of my favorite books and I really enjoy the movie. Gary Cooper playing Howard Roark, always knows how to wipe his brow and flick his sweat. I love the long ass speech Howard Roark gives at the end of the film. It's like, if you bore a jury, you can get away with terrorism.

There's no way you can tell me Patricia Neal isn't hot with a riding crop.

I know it's not one of King Vidor's best, but if I'm flipping through the channels and its on, I'm watching it.

They couldn't make this movie today where your main sympathetic character rapes the leading lady and has her help him go all terrorist on the development where his designs have been compromised.

After that, Turner Classic Movies played, "The Towering Inferno" and it occurred to me that with all the heat the flames were generating, that the building didn't collapse like the World Trade Center.

It was quite a movie day as I sat with my PowerBook G4 editing my Workshop videos and emailing the next wave of actors who might participate in my films.

In the background I hear what sounds like the voice of Christopher Walken. I turn the TV up and it's Adam Roarke, who once ran an acting studio in Dallas that brought great talent like Lou Diamond Phillips and an ex-girlfriend of mine to the world. I really liked Adam Roarke. He was always nice to me.

The film I was watching was one I somehow missed in all my years of moviegoing. "Play It As It Lays" is from 1972 and has some of my favorite actors, Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins and Tammy Grimes who has the sexiest voice ever and used to be heard on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

Joan Didion wrote the screenplay based on her novel. Talking with a friend on the phone she pointed out that the novel is considered to be one of the Top 100 greatest American novels of all time. I've never read it, but will now.

The film is very trippy. Very 70's. Very "Mulholland Drive" by way of "Less Than Zero."

Produced by Dominick Dunne. Costume Design by Joel Schumacher. Visual Effects by Roy Lichtenstein. Beautiful cinematography by Jordan Cronenweth, who is one of my favorites and shot "U2: Rattle and Hum," "Stop Making Sense" and among others, "Blade Runner." I always wanted to meet him, but sadly he died in the mid-90s.

Directed by Frank Perry, who did one of my favorite movies when I was a kid, "Rancho Deluxe."

I've set my Moxi to record this film when it plays again. In my phone conversation, I mentioned it has one of the most beautiful suicide scenes in any film I can remember and this is definitely an example of, "They don't make films like they did in the '70s."