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CHICAGO CHRISTMAS, 1984.
At twenty-six, at the embarrassing end of a series of attempts at channelling Kerouac, I was beyond broke, back in my home town, living in my aunt and uncle's basement. Having courted and won a girl I had courted but never come close to winning in high school, I was now losing her via my pathetically dwindling prospects. One night she said, "I'm not saying I'm great or anything, but still I think I deserve better than this."
That fall, my uncle called in a favor and soon I was on a roofing crew, one of three grunts riding from job to job in the freezing open back of a truck. My fellow-grunts, Leon and John, were the only black guys on the crew, and hence I was ...
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- Human Nature: Michel Gondry, USA, 2001. (movie review)
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...desire, and instinct. In Human Nature, his follow-up to Being John Malkovich, Kaufman joins forces with French music video director...and the only one who survives unscathed is Puff. Unlike Being John Malkovich, which left space for the mysteries implicit in the...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television Anderson, Carolyn January 1, 1999 700+ words
...Objectification of Experience." An epilogue, "Realism in the Late Twentieth Century" briefly considers contemporary examples - John Gardner's On Moral Fiction, Tom Wolfe's "Stalking the Billion-Fooled Beast," and Oliver Stone's JFK - to illustrate...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television CLAUSS, JAMES J. September 22, 1999 700+ words
...and critics, when examining the films of John Ford, underscore the epic, folkloric...which lies on the table between director "John Dodge" (Ward Bond) and his screenwriter Frank Wead (John Wayne), a clear indication of Ford's...
- "THE GERMANS WORE GRAY, YOU WORE BLUE".(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television EDGERTON, GARY R. January 1, 2000 700+ words
...conflict provided plenty of melodramatics whereby several presumably honorable heroes (i.e., Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, John Huston, and Woody Allen) confronted a venal, aspiring villain (i.e., Ted Turner) in a media-saturated spectacle...
- Mary Pickford and the American "Growing Girl".
- Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television TIBBETTS, JOHN C. June 22, 2001 700+ words
"I always study a part very carefully and try to get into the spirit of the child I am to portray," commented twenty-six-year-old Mary Pickford (1892-1979) in a July 1918 interview in Motion Picture Classic. "The costume, dressing the character, means a lot. You know, when I'm dressed as a child, I
- The new Black Animated Images of 1946.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television LEHMAN, CHRISTOPHER P. June 22, 2001 700+ words
...feature film Make Mine Music. Pal's John Henry and the Inky-Poo placed the theme...this issue, and a George Pal Puppetoon, John Henry and the Inky Poo, upon which another...competitors. (377) After their releases both John Henry and the Inky-Poo and Brotherhood...
- Moving On Up: Education in Black American Youth Films.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television SPEED, LESLEY June 22, 2001 700+ words
...Doug McHenry and George Jackson, 1991), and Higher Learning (John Singleton, 1995) reveals aspects of college life that American...American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973) through Animal House (John Landis, 1978) to Can't Hardly Wait (Harry Elfont and Deborah...