Stories of Mark Twain: read by Walter Brennan and Brandon de Wilde [ LP Vinyl ]
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Forty-five years after I watched Brandon de Wilde race his Boston Whaler after Flipper, I shook hands with a dolphin at Hawk Cay. The Disney TV series of Flipper was filmed at Key Largo, as I recall. Those glimpses of aqua water (and of golden de Wilde) shaped my future. My thanks to the photographer at [...]
The Kill Zone (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
by James Scott Bell I love a good Western. This uniquely American genre sums up our collective spirit better than any other. In fact, the decline in the popularity of Westerns seems to track right along with the fragmentation of our society. So a look back at the classics (I'm not into post-modern revisionist oaters) is also a look back at ourselves, as we were, silhouetted against the horizon. Maybe...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Go away. Why haven't you left yet? Don't you have some patty-cake games to play with your intellectual superiors, or something? Get along, now, little dogie. Scoot. Go on. Skedaddle. Head up, move out... and still you stand here. Why is that the medium asked knowing the answer would make nobody happy. Oh, sure. You came here for a reading, and won't leave before you have it. Well, don't let me hold...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Over at his Think Again blog, Stanley Fish, the eminent literary critic, has listed his all-time favorite American films. The list is a good one, so we figured why not add some video clips to the mix, and give you a little taste of each classic. See the full list after the jump. And if [...]
scanners (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Clips from the on-screen life of the late Paul Newman, actor and movie star: Richard T. Jameson at MSN Movies: Paul Newman's entrance in "Hud" (1963) is actually an exit, emerging just past dawn from a nondescript house on...
jeffreymark (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
1963 Paul Newman played the man-child Hud based on Larry McMurtry's story Horseman Pass By. I like the story because it introduces us to a typical Texas drugstore cowboy, or as we used to call them, Rexall Ranger, who cannot...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
For my generation, the film "The Graduate" was a major element in our growing up, or what we thought was growing up or - better yet, what we thought growing up was about. So when I read this article, I knew that this extracted section had to go here:- When it came to casting, the problems really began...“I interviewed hundreds, maybe thousands, of men,” Nichols told an enthusiastic...
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