The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... of black notables for comment, including the actress Hattie McDaniel; the secretary of the NAACP, Walter White; and, via his friend producer Walter Wanger, Howard University scholar Alvin Locke. Walt even did something that he had done on no previous film: He invited White to the studio to work on revisions with him. White begged off, saying he was too busy. In...
2'23" (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... classical musicians. The executive secretary of the NAACP from 1931-1955 was the rather patrician Walter White . White was personally a big fan of the conductor Dean Dixon, who as I mentioned earlier would later suffer some blacklisting. In the early 1940s, White was quite vigorous in using the NAACP name to promote Dixon's career, writing letters to people like Leopold...
Breaking Bad (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... up to the Season 3 premiere in March 2010. So put your thinking caps on, and in the words of Walter White, "Apply yourself!"
Breaking Bad (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The charity's President and Corporate Relations Manager discuss the Save Walter White website and what patients could learn from Walter White.
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... a high school chemistry teacher to a wannabe drugs baron staggering around in the sand. We meet Walter White, a man who starts his 50th birthday with a plate full of veggie bacon spelling out "5-0", and spends it trying to enthuse a bored high-school class about the joys of chemistry. Then he runs off to a second job at a car wash, before coming home to a surprise birthday...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... the befalls him. For some reason early in the film, he momentarily struck me like Bryan Cranston's Walter White on television's great Breaking Bad , but Gopnik isn't that complicated nor terminally ill and he certainly isn't going to become an aspiring drug kingpin. Early in the film, the phrase "Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you" appears on the screen...
