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Claude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for WritersTrump’s AI Force Is a Fire Department With No Fire CodeThe Clients Who Pay and VanishThe Quotation Marks That Get Authors SuedWhen a Client Thinks the Ghostwriter Used AIWhat an AI Detector Score on Your Manuscript Is WorthWhen Your Memoir Should Be a NovelThe Work You Would Never Have StartedThe One-Hour Call Before I Quote Your BookWhat Belongs on a Copyright PageThe Hugging Face AI Agent Attack: An Operations ReadingWhen Your Own Memoir Sounds Like BraggingMonthly or Milestone: How Ghostwriting Gets BilledWhat It Costs to Fix an AI-Written ManuscriptBehind the Book: The Mysterious Island, Neb’s SideHow to Organize Decades of Memories Into a MemoirWhy Rotten Tomatoes Sucks: The Score Does Not Mean What You ThinkWhy Amazon KDP Sucks: They Terminated My Account OvernightIngramSpark: How I Publish Now and WhyWhy Fiverr Sucks for Ghostwriting: The Buyer’s SideWhy eBay Sucks Now: A Seller’s Numbers and a Buyer’s WarningThe Ghost Story TraditionThe Gothic TraditionThe Christmas Ghost Story TraditionResurrection as a Narrative StructureBooks to Give a WriterThe Beach Read ArgumentWhy It’s a Wonderful Life Failed on ReleaseWhat to Read in SpringWhat to Read in SummerWhat to Read in OctoberHow Warner Bros. Dismantled a $17 Billion Cartoon EmpireThe Imaginary Scarcity TrapThe Graph That Goes Vertical Is Usually Somebody Else’sThe Disasters That Happen to Ordinary PeopleSubstack Is Not Collapsing. The Promise Was.Toba: The Winter That Almost Ended UsJay Stifflemire: Nothing Ever Gets Written DownGeorgie-Ann Getton: I Forgot I Had Free WillAI Detection Cannot Be Evidence, and Publishing Is Using It That WayAI Consciousness Left Philosophy and Entered the LaboratoryThe Office Block Where the Bedrooms AreThe Web Got Fenced: What AI Search Costs Small SitesBlack Tuesday: The Web Ring War Nobody Outside It NoticedWhat the AI Visibility Industry Sells, and What the Evidence SaysBlack Tuesday: The Original ring-master.net Page, 2000Behind the Book: Peacekeeper, The Dissolution WarsBehind the Book: Publish Your BookBehind the Book: Real World SurvivalBehind the Book: Reincarnation

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Director: Joseph Sargent

Joseph Sargent directed across five decades of American film and television, winning four Emmys for his television work, and his features run from The Taking of Pelham One Two Three to the medical drama Something the Lord Made. Three of his films are reviewed here: Something the Lord Made at 9 out of 10, The Taking of Pelham 123 at 9, and Colossus: The Forbin Project at 9, the last of which treats a runaway defence computer as an engineering problem instead of a monster.

A still from the 1970 film showing a computer control room with control panels, dials, and a printer as men in shirts

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Review

I have watched this more times than is defensible. A film about a computer, a requirements document and a mountain, and the machine is never once broken.

Something the Lord Made (2004) film poster

Something the Lord Made (2004)

Joseph Sargent's 2004 HBO film. Alan Rickman as Dr. Alfred Blalock, Mos Def as Vivien Thomas.

The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) and The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) film poster

The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) and The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) Review

Two substantial adaptations of John Godey's subway hijacking novel. 1974 Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw foundational.