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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... Reach to the Stars, by Calder Willingham.
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Post-"Graduate" Studies
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
" The Graduate " ( Mike Nichols , 1967) During the summer of 2009, the small rom/com " (500) Days of Summer " contained a line that hit home on many fronts. The romantic hero (says the police blotter-like narrator) formed his romantic ideas at an impressionable age due to "a mis-reading of ' The Graduate .'" An easy thing to do. Lots of young romantic kids grooving on...
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Forgotten Books: Hardboiled America
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
How's this for a resume (from Wikipedia): "Geoffrey O'Brien (b. 1948) is a widely published author, editor, book and film critic, poet, and cultural historian. In 1992, he joined the staff of the Library of America, (later) becoming editor in chief. He has been a contributor to Artforum, Film Comment, The New York Times, Village Voice, New Republic, Filmmaker and, especially, to the New York Review...
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Paths of Glory dvd download
anonymous (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Paths of Glory dvd download Paths of Glory dvd download Paths of Glory Synopsis: Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard
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Reel Thoughts: Strange Love
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Who knew Ben Gazzara was such a gorgeous stud? Or George Peppard? Or even Pat Hingle ? The three actors play cadets at a Southern Military Academy in 1957’s controversial drama, The Strange One , which makes its DVD debut next week in its original, uncensored version. Gazzara plays Jocko de Paris (a porn name if there ever was one — not to mention the Tom of Finland -esque portrait of him...
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Divorce Saudi Arabian Style
Roger L. Simon (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
Attention, Marcello Mastroianni - you career is not over. There is no reason you could not play an aging Saudi sheik in this remake of your and Pietro Germi’s masterpiece. [Oh, come on, you know there's a very good reason.-ed Haven't you read Calder Willingham's masterpiece, New Hope for the Dead'] Anyway, stop being [...]
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Dinner Theater
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/14/2007
Two dinners out two evenings in a row. How do I maintain this insane social pace? I must not know my own stamina. Monday night was dinner at Indochine hosted by Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg for Kevin Sessums'...
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Paths of Glory dvd download
anonymous (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Paths of Glory dvd download Paths of Glory dvd download Paths of Glory Synopsis: Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard...