MAGNOLIA AN APPRECIATION My wife had never seen Magnolia, so we watched it last night (and this morning). I remembered that it was excellent, but, with fifteen years of life experience in between, I feel it is a masterpiece. Written and directed by then 28 year-old Paul Thomas Anderson, it is a series of interconnected stories that take place in roughly one 24 hour period in the San Fernando Valley. (Magnolia is an important street that runs across much of the Valley.) A medi