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Russia’s Post-Stalinist Master of Film Comedy: Eldar Ryazanov

May 6, 2012 By Walter G. Moss Leave a Comment

Walter Moss: A great admirer of the Charlie Chaplin’s films, Eldar Ryazanov is primarily known for his comedies, which are often referred to as “sad comedies” or tragicomedies.

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Russian Films on YouTube: From Eisenstein’s Masterpieces to the Present

March 28, 2012 By Walter G. Moss Leave a Comment

Walter Moss: Available now on Youtube are excellent Russian subtitled films from the days of the great film pioneer Sergei Eisenstein to the present era of popular directors such as Alexei Balabanov and Karen Shakhnazarov.

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Carl Sandburg, Hollywood, Media, and Marilyn Monroe

January 13, 2012 By Walter G. Moss Leave a Comment

Walter Moss: But his relationship with Monroe revealed not only his wisdom, kindness, vibrant exuberance, and appreciation of beauty, but probably also something else, something very human, that many an old man has felt.

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: 1920s, Carl Sandburg, charlie chaplin, Civilization, Elitist, Film Critic Roger, Film Critic Roger Ebert, Film Reviews, Hollywood Media, Lincoln Biographer, Main Stem, Marilyn Monroe, New Health, Philosopher, Poet, Princeton, Thief, Tom Mix, Woe, Writer Director

Hollywood Left and Right

January 5, 2012 By Jim Cullen Leave a Comment

Jim Cullen: While we tend to think of Hollywood as a liberal bastion, it has had a series of prominent conservative champions, who on balance have been more successful than liberals in actually realizing their political goals.

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: American Politics, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Bastion, charlie chaplin, Charlton Heston, Close Readings, Edmund, Empathy, Film Historian, Gary Hart, George Mcgovern, George Murphy, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Political Activism, Political Goals, Righ, Ronald Reagan, Steven J Ross, Warren Beatty

AFI Film Festival: Pina

November 6, 2011 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

Ed Rampell: Pina alternates between visual splendor and repetitiousness, as the Tanztheater Wuppertal dancers reflect on their fallen instructor and perform a variety of modern dances set to classical, jazz and other music.

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Striking a Blow for the Sexual Revolution.

April 23, 2011 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

Now, we have Jon Marans’ The Tempermentals, which unabashedly tackles the topic of Harry Hay’s C.P.U.S.A. membership, as well as that other grand American taboo and obsession: Homosexuality.

Filed Under: Stage Tagged With: Blank Theatre Company, charlie chaplin, clifford odets, Double Whammy, French Communist Party, Gay Liberation Movement, Harry Hay, l.a. opera, La Jolla Playhouse, Latc, Marc Blitzstein, Naming Names, pablo neruda, pablo picasso, placido domingo, Poet Pablo Neruda, Sen Joe Mccarthy, Singer Paul Robeson, waiting for lefty, West Coast Premiere

Celebrating Ernie Kovacs

April 20, 2011 By Tom Degan 1 Comment

Tom Degan: Ernie Kovacs was a visionary. He was the first to realize that great art could be created within the nineteen-inch confines of an ugly box with a glass tube.at its center.

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: charlie chaplin, Edie Adams, Edna Purviance, Entertainment Medium, Ernie Kovacs, Exaggeration, Festivities, Fifty Years, Formula For Success, George Schlatter, Giant Video Screen, Heart Breaker, Keith Olbermann, msnbc, Political Discourse, Popular Culture, Regularity, Thic, Train Wreck, Vital Presence

Hollywood General Studios

March 25, 2011 By Michaelangelo Price Leave a Comment

Mike Price: When Marsha Williams and I worked together at Hollywood General Studios we were surrounded by the ghosts of some of the most historic films, actors, directors, producers and nut-jobs of movie and television’s legendary past.

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Hitler-arious: The Leftist Was a Tramp

October 9, 2010 By Ed Rampell 3 Comments

like many other productions at the fabled Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse, the stellar Limelight is Broadway bound for glory.

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