| Search keyword(s): '
Wes D. Gehring'
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Reel World |
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January 2018 |
| His paintings are like cinema freeze-frames, in which the viewer feels he or she voyeuristically is stealing a fleeting private moment from an often isolated, forlorn individual under glass.. . . |
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May 2020 |
| "[The 1938 movie] was fairly accurate for its day, although, in the end, paints a somewhat varnished perspective [of the yellow fever outbreak]." |
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September 2011 |
| Author of The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody and other darkly comic works, humorist Will Cuppy ultimately took his own life, but not before delighting readers with his biting and, at time, nihilistic wit. |
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July 2020 |
| "[Sydney Pollack] never has received the consistency of theme status of an ameteur. Instead, he has been given that lefthanded compliment of creating films known for their proverbial 'wonderful workmanship.' " |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2011 |
| When Charlie Chaplin was denigrated by narrow-minded, history-impaired "love-it-or-leave-it" type Americans, his victimizaiton showed, as in so much of life, that the enemy quite often is on this side of the fence. . . . |
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November 2018 |
| This year marks the 15th anniversary of the American Film Institute selecting the 100 Greatest Heroes in cinema history. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962) topped the list. |
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November 2010 |
| ". . . Although critics sometimes are accused of 'reading' too much into a film, there often is a great deal hidden in plain sight." |
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Sportscene |
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March 2016 |
| "I've tried 'em all--I really have--and the church that feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the church of baseball." |
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May 2012 |
| The beauty of "High Noon" and "Kiss Me Deadly," as in all art that taps into universal truths, is that the viewer could miss every metaphorical McCarthy-era Cold War subtext and still savor the films on a purely mind candy entertainment level. |
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September 2016 |
| "While [John] Bunny helped inaugurate the silent screen clown, Buster Keaton later became the only real artistic rival to Charlie Chaplin's alter ego Tramp." |
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January 2020 |
| The breakout pictures for both Frank Capra and Richard Curtis were screwball comedies -"It Happened One Night" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral," respectively. Both films demonstrate a closing element to the genre - wedding breakups with the wrong people. |
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May 2018 |
| Turner Classic Movies once again will be offering a free online summer class for film aficionados. |
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May 2022 |
| ". . . . For many 1930s critics, ["My Man Godfrey"] represented [an] obvious starting point for the genre." |
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November 2019 |
| The Academy Award-winning song, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," proves a mystery and a marvel in the legendary Paul Newman and Robert Redford Western. |
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September 2010 |
| "The Pride of the Yankees," with populist prototype Gary Cooper playing Lou Gehrig, the iconic Iron Horse, still has the ability to make grown men cry. |
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Entertaiment |
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May 2021 |
| "Under this provocative parasol of genres of the fantastic, the most-significant solemn literacy texts have come from horror." |
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January 2009 |
| ". . . The strongest argument for letting comedians play darker parts is that, despite the stereotype concerning tragedy's superiority, many would argue that comedy is more significant." |
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September 2021 |
| "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?" |
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May 2005 |
| The actor "was not the aimless angst-ridden youth he played in the movies. . . . He was not that suffering, rudderless figure in real life." |
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September 2020 |
| "For all of the film's tearjerker traits . . . the movie also functions as a poignant love story of equal nontraditional dimensions. How often does this genre have a focus romantic couple where each partner is 70-plus years old?" |
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Cinema |
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January 2012 |
| ". . . However you choose to 'read' your road movie map, may all your film trips be enlightening." |
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Athletic Arena |
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March 2020 |
| The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again--but baseball has marked this time. The game is a part of our past and reminds us of all that once was, and that could be again. |
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March 2020 |
| Quentin Tarantino has put--as is his wont--a provocative twist on history with "Once Upon a Time . . . In Hollywood." |
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September 2018 |
| Fantasy is best considered with the sister genres of horror and science fiction. The world of Marvel Comics really falls under the umbrella of fantasy. |
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July 2018 |
| Elaborate cigarette ads involving movie stars is unthinkable today. |
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November 2016 |
| The gang's all here: Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, Hope and Crosby, and Martin and Lewis." |
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Literary Scene |
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January 2021 |
| The Beatles could have done a cinema variation on the Marx brothers. The twist is that the Marxes acted surreal in a sane world, while the Beatles attempted to maintain sanity in a world gone mad. |
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March 2012 |
| Dexter is a serial killer in a cable television program that evokes the best elements of cinima's persistent pursuit of black comedy. |
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November 2021 |
| This film noir "has attracted attention for breaking the old maxim of 'too many cooks spoil the broth.' " |
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January 2015 |
| Preston Sturges always was predisposed to skewering Populist films--and there is no better example than "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek." |
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September 2008 |
| As Mark Twain once observed, "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." |
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January 2017 |
| "Today, every year seems life 1957, except now the warning often appears to apply more to political products. Satire can be a savior here, but it would help if the human herd seemingly did not so need this empty prattle." |
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Athletic Arena |
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July 2019 |
| "Appearing on 'Late Night with David Letterman,' [Yankee Hall-of-Famer Mickey Mantle] saw this comedy coming along more tragic lines, since there were so many deserving Crash Davises who never did make the majors--not even for a cup of coffee." |
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July 2015 |
| "… Three of [TV's] iconic figures (Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, and Dick Van Dyke) have character-defining material drawn directly from 'Modern Times.'" |
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March 2021 |
| It is much easier to embrace a filmmaker whose private time often is spent on activities to which one has strong beliefs. Naturally, this link between the actor and the view is further reinforced if the artist's true passion s bleed into the work. |
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July 2021 |
| Popular music constantly is being redifined on the silver screen. |
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May 2022 |
| "Though a picture might be worth 1,000 words, a simple phrase can assemble an ocean of words between [book] covers." |
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