Author Gore Vidal was correct when he stated that “movies are the literature of our time.” No other art form is more popular than film, and with more outlets for watching movies than ever before, Americans continue to spend billions of dollars on tickets, rentals and DVDs.

Every movie has a story to tell of one sort or another, and that makes them applicable to other aspects of our lives. In an article on Inc. Dot Com, author Mike Hoffman uses the movies as a way to study leadership in an piece entitled “Everything I know About Leadership, I learned From the Movies.”

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ARE OLYMPIC RECORDS EASIER TO BREAK THAN BEFORE?

In a lengthy blog entry, Slate Magazine writer William Saletan argues that we’re all making too much fuss about Olympic records being broken, more because of advances in equipment than the prowess of athletes. Is he right?

Click here to read Saletan’s take on Olympic records

CREATORS OF “AIRPLANE” TAKE ON THE LEFT

In the latest Weekly Standard, Stephen Hayes writes about the upcoming movie from director and writer David Zucker of “Airplane” fame. Called “An American Carol,” the film is “a frontal attack on the excesses of the American left from several prominent members of a growing class of Hollywood conservatives.”

It’s an interesting article about the Wisconsin-born Zucker and the current state, at least from one point of view, of Hollywood.

Click here to read Hayes’ story