Harlan Ellison Doc &quot;Dreams With Sharp Teeth&quot; Is All
Bark, No BiteS  We watched the documentary Dreams With Sharp
Teeth about Harlan Ellison at the South by Southwest Film
Festival last night, and some of it was impressive, like
watching the sharp-penned writer work in a bookstore window in
1994, spending five hours typing a short story so people could
see that it's an actual job. However, the film disappointed by
refusing to delve into any of the controversy surrounding
Ellison at all, turning it into a big fluff piece that basically
fails to explain his cranky, world-hating genius.  The film
features people like Robin Williams and Neil Gaiman talking
about the impact Harlan has had on the world of writing, and
there's a great amount of attention to the idea of writing as a
real job where you have to roll up your sleeves and dive in,.
And we see that work. Even at 73 years old, he still sits down
at a manual typewriter and pounds out a daily living. While
Ellison claims not to be rich, he does live