Bob Dylan is just as much a writer as he is a musician. His lyrics earned him a Nobel Prize in Literature, and he is considered one of the best songwriters of all time. Many people respect him as an artist, but at least one award-winning writer cannot be described as a fan. When discussing modern music, author Kurt Vonnegut said Dylan was a terrible poet.
Bob Dylan | Michael Kovac/WireImage The young musician described himself as a poet
Dylan was a musician, but he also considered himself a poet. Early in his career, he sought out poet Carl Sandburg to discuss his work. He hadn’t announced he was coming, but Sandburg still politely let Dylan inside when he knocked on his door.
“‘You’re Carl Sandburg,’ Dylan said, not asking. ‘I’m Bob Dylan. I’m a poet, too,'” Anthony Scaduto wrote in Bob Dylan: An Intimate...
Bob Dylan | Michael Kovac/WireImage The young musician described himself as a poet
Dylan was a musician, but he also considered himself a poet. Early in his career, he sought out poet Carl Sandburg to discuss his work. He hadn’t announced he was coming, but Sandburg still politely let Dylan inside when he knocked on his door.
“‘You’re Carl Sandburg,’ Dylan said, not asking. ‘I’m Bob Dylan. I’m a poet, too,'” Anthony Scaduto wrote in Bob Dylan: An Intimate...
- 4/15/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the 1960s, Bob Dylan sought out a number of his influences, including musician Woody Guthrie and poet Carl Sandburg. With both men, Dylan arrived at their homes unannounced. While he formed a relationship with Guthrie, he only briefly met with Sandburg. He left their meeting hurt and frustrated that Sandburg hadn’t recognized him.
Bob Dylan | Rowland Scherman/Getty Images Bob Dylan sought out Carl Sandburg
In the early 1960s, Dylan was on a road trip with friends when he decided to seek out Sandburg. He hadn’t been invited, so he had to seek out the poet’s home based on a vague notion of where he lived. When the group arrived in Flat Rock, North Carolina, Dylan asked residents for directions.
“Don’t know about no poet,” a local man told them, Anthony Scaduto wrote in Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography (via Rolling Stone). “There’s a Sandburg has a goat farm.
Bob Dylan | Rowland Scherman/Getty Images Bob Dylan sought out Carl Sandburg
In the early 1960s, Dylan was on a road trip with friends when he decided to seek out Sandburg. He hadn’t been invited, so he had to seek out the poet’s home based on a vague notion of where he lived. When the group arrived in Flat Rock, North Carolina, Dylan asked residents for directions.
“Don’t know about no poet,” a local man told them, Anthony Scaduto wrote in Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography (via Rolling Stone). “There’s a Sandburg has a goat farm.
- 3/11/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When Steven Spielberg's film, "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" first hit theaters in the summer of 1982, everyone's hearts were warmed by the charming friendship between a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas) and an alien looking for a way home. The heart of the audience's love for the film was E.T. himself. He appeared on screen as a gangly-yet-endearing otherworldly creature, who was down to play dress up and talk phone plans. His persona was the complete opposite of another alien making the theater rounds that same summer, the monster in John Carpenter's "The Thing." Unlike those shape-shifting aliens, E.T. came in peace, but he did have one thing in common with some of the special effects from Carpenter's film: E.T. was also an elaborate, real-life puppet.
There are few things in Hollywood as iconic as the E.T. character, and fans of the film recently had...
There are few things in Hollywood as iconic as the E.T. character, and fans of the film recently had...
- 12/19/2022
- by Miyako Pleines
- Slash Film
From Terrence Malick to Gu Changwei, there are some familiar and high-profile names associated with the Marché du Film’s Cannes Xr program.
Dedicated to immersive entertainment, this week’s Cannes Xr has two main ambitions, according to Guillaume Esmiol, deputy director of the Marché du Film.
The first is to support the Xr community with a competition, conference, networking platform and development showcase as well as financing and distribution opportunities.
The second ambition, says Esmiol, is “to explain Xr to traditional cinema,” so that film execs and creatives attending the Cannes Film Festival in person or virtually can learn more about the medium.
For the fledgling but fast developing Xr industry, connections with the film industry are seen as key to help it grow in the future. The skills of storytellers and production talent are all needed to create the compelling content that Xr requires to reach wider audiences.
Dedicated to immersive entertainment, this week’s Cannes Xr has two main ambitions, according to Guillaume Esmiol, deputy director of the Marché du Film.
The first is to support the Xr community with a competition, conference, networking platform and development showcase as well as financing and distribution opportunities.
The second ambition, says Esmiol, is “to explain Xr to traditional cinema,” so that film execs and creatives attending the Cannes Film Festival in person or virtually can learn more about the medium.
For the fledgling but fast developing Xr industry, connections with the film industry are seen as key to help it grow in the future. The skills of storytellers and production talent are all needed to create the compelling content that Xr requires to reach wider audiences.
- 7/7/2021
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Hal Holbrook, the five-time Emmy-winning actor who was famed for portraying Mark Twain, has died at 95. Holbrook died on January 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, his assistant told The New York Times.
Born on February 17, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, he went on to have a highly decorated screen and stage career that spanned more than six decades.
Holbrook perhaps was best known for playing Mark Twain in his one-man stage show Mark Twain Tonight!, which first played on Broadway in 1966 and earned Holbrook a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. A television showing of the stage show secured him an Emmy nomination a year later, he reprised the role on the Main Stem in 1977 and again in 2005.
Holbrook played former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on television in Carl Sandburg’s 1974 mini-series Lincoln, which earned him one of five Emmy statuettes. His four other...
Born on February 17, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, he went on to have a highly decorated screen and stage career that spanned more than six decades.
Holbrook perhaps was best known for playing Mark Twain in his one-man stage show Mark Twain Tonight!, which first played on Broadway in 1966 and earned Holbrook a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. A television showing of the stage show secured him an Emmy nomination a year later, he reprised the role on the Main Stem in 1977 and again in 2005.
Holbrook played former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on television in Carl Sandburg’s 1974 mini-series Lincoln, which earned him one of five Emmy statuettes. His four other...
- 2/2/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
MIFA’s Work in Progress presentations offered online delegates a glimpse into some highly anticipated features, series and interactive projects in the second week of Annecy’s online festival.
Leading the pack was upcoming America-Canadian animated TV series from Netflix “The Cuphead Show!” – based on the characters in the best-selling Canadian “gun and run” video game “Cuphead.”
While the game has been highly praised for its authentic “rubber hose” style animation inspired by the Fleischer-produced toons of the 1930s, the TV series aims to go a step further – fleshing out some of the more minor characters and painstakingly reproducing watercolor sets for a digital production line.
According to executive producers Dave Wasson (“Micky Mouse Shorts”) and Cosmo Segurson (“Rocko’s Modern Life”), the pilot has been designed to introduce the show’s two main characters – a pair of energetic and bickering siblings called Cuphead and Mugman.
The characters live with Elder...
Leading the pack was upcoming America-Canadian animated TV series from Netflix “The Cuphead Show!” – based on the characters in the best-selling Canadian “gun and run” video game “Cuphead.”
While the game has been highly praised for its authentic “rubber hose” style animation inspired by the Fleischer-produced toons of the 1930s, the TV series aims to go a step further – fleshing out some of the more minor characters and painstakingly reproducing watercolor sets for a digital production line.
According to executive producers Dave Wasson (“Micky Mouse Shorts”) and Cosmo Segurson (“Rocko’s Modern Life”), the pilot has been designed to introduce the show’s two main characters – a pair of energetic and bickering siblings called Cuphead and Mugman.
The characters live with Elder...
- 6/23/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix, China’s Alibaba and France have thrown their weight behind the Annecy Animation Festival, with the festival set to showcase an in progress reveal of the U.S. streaming giant’s “The Cupcake Show!” plus a look back at cult movie “Animal Crackers,” as well as six French productions in its Work in Progress section, Annecy’s single most important program strand.
Distributed by Alibaba Pictures Group, “New Gods: Nezha Reborn,” from Ji Zhao, follows on the highest grossing animated movie ever in a single territory, earning over $700 million in China.
French productions are led by the hugely awaited “The Summit of the Gods,” produced by Jean-Charles Ostorero and the most ambitious movie to date from Didier and Damien Brunner.
Also in the French Wip mix is “The Island,” the latest from Romania’s Anca Damian, who won Annecy’s top pirize with “Crilic: The Path to Beyond,” as...
Distributed by Alibaba Pictures Group, “New Gods: Nezha Reborn,” from Ji Zhao, follows on the highest grossing animated movie ever in a single territory, earning over $700 million in China.
French productions are led by the hugely awaited “The Summit of the Gods,” produced by Jean-Charles Ostorero and the most ambitious movie to date from Didier and Damien Brunner.
Also in the French Wip mix is “The Island,” the latest from Romania’s Anca Damian, who won Annecy’s top pirize with “Crilic: The Path to Beyond,” as...
- 5/20/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Telling a heartbreaking tale of love that permeates the boundaries of the living and the dead, Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" is one of 24 classic poems brought to life with new artwork by Julian Peters in the upcoming collection Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry. Ahead of its March 31st release (just in time for National Poetry Month in April) from Plough Publishing Press, we've been provided with exclusive preview pages that combine Peters' new artwork with Poe's timeless words of love, loss, and undying loyalty.
Below, you can see a love so strong that it makes the angels jealous in our exclusive preview pages from Poems to See By. We also have the official press release with additional details, and to learn more, visit Amazon and the official websites for Plough Publishing Press and Julian Peters.
Press Release: Timed to National Poetry Month in April,...
Below, you can see a love so strong that it makes the angels jealous in our exclusive preview pages from Poems to See By. We also have the official press release with additional details, and to learn more, visit Amazon and the official websites for Plough Publishing Press and Julian Peters.
Press Release: Timed to National Poetry Month in April,...
- 3/13/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Feel free to take a seat, because Shaq and Joe Biden are here to read you some poems. In honor of National Poetry Month, PBS member station Wgbh and American Public Television will be premiering a 12-part television event that celebrates poetry through special readings and in-depth conversations. The series, which is called “Poetry in America,” will be hosted by Harvard University professor Elisa New and features individuals like U2 lead vocalist Bono, shoe designer Stuart Weitzman, former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Senator John McCain, hip-hop artist Nas, singer/songwriter Regina Spektor, former President Bill Clinton, and “The New York Times” opinion columnist David Brooks.
Each episode will focus on a different poem and will feature various individuals reflecting on its history, social relevance, artistic value, and personal meanings. Scheduled poems include Carl Sandburg’s “Skyscraper,” Emily Dickinson’s “I Cannot Dance Opon My Toes,” and Langston Hughes’ “Harlem.
Each episode will focus on a different poem and will feature various individuals reflecting on its history, social relevance, artistic value, and personal meanings. Scheduled poems include Carl Sandburg’s “Skyscraper,” Emily Dickinson’s “I Cannot Dance Opon My Toes,” and Langston Hughes’ “Harlem.
- 3/6/2018
- by Kevin Yang
- Indiewire
The Chicago Public Library Foundation and the Chicago Public Library presentedthe 16th annual Carl Sandburg Literary Award to legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Universally heralded for his immense contributions to musical theater in a career spanning more than 50 years, Sondheim was at the Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner tonight, October 21, 2015 at The Forum 725 W. Roosevelt Road on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The event was attended by almost 700 and raised more than 1.5 million to support the initiatives of the Chicago Public Library. Scroll down for photos...
- 10/22/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Acording to the Chicago Tribune, theatre legend Stephen Sondheim will receive Chicago Public Library Foundation's 16th Carl Sandburg Award. As a part of the ceremony on October 21, 2015, Sondheim will be interviewed onstage by Scott Simon of NPR. The Carl Sandburg Literary Award is presented annually to an acclaimed author in recognition of outstanding contributions to the literary world and honors a significant work or body of work that has enhanced the public's awareness of the written word. The Carl Sandburg Award in the Arts is presented to an individual who embodies a spirit of creativity and social consciousness.
- 3/30/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
At its best, comics is like a family, where people in the field are known by their first names by fans and peers alike. Jerry, Joe (well, several Joes, actually, but context always makes it clear which one), Will, Bob, Bill, Stan, Jack, Steve, Marie, Carmine, Len, Marv, Flo.
Irwin.
Irwin Hasen was my friend, just as he was a lot of people’s friend. Of course, millions of people knew Irwin through his comics (Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Wildcat, the Fox, and, of course, Dondi). But because he had no children and no local relatives, Irwin’s friends and companions were his cartooning contemporaries, the cartoonists he mentored, and a steady stream of admirers, thirty to fifty years his junior, who crossed his path in various ways. Some were fans, some fellow comics pros. Some were descendants of his contemporaries, seeking information about and connection with their parents or grandparents through Irwin,...
Irwin.
Irwin Hasen was my friend, just as he was a lot of people’s friend. Of course, millions of people knew Irwin through his comics (Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Wildcat, the Fox, and, of course, Dondi). But because he had no children and no local relatives, Irwin’s friends and companions were his cartooning contemporaries, the cartoonists he mentored, and a steady stream of admirers, thirty to fifty years his junior, who crossed his path in various ways. Some were fans, some fellow comics pros. Some were descendants of his contemporaries, seeking information about and connection with their parents or grandparents through Irwin,...
- 3/20/2015
- by Danny Fingeroth
- Comicmix.com
Alec Baldwin took a trip to the Midwest this weekend to help raise money at a celebration for Young Chicago Authors, an arts organization that promotes youth literacy, leadership, and storytelling. At the event, Baldwin hung out with Chance the Rapper, and the result was a quick rap collaboration, which was posted on the latter's Instagram. "This is me beatboxing while Alec Baldwin raps, he is for the people," Chance wrote in the video's caption. Yes, Baldwin raps. He spit a couple of lines from Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago," and the flow was ... gloriously stilted. Watch it once, watch it 20 times, whatever — just enjoy Baldwin the Rapper:...
- 3/2/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
All the Wilderness is caught somewhere between a terrific short film and a tender, sensitive coming-of-age drama. Without credits, Michael Johnson’s film is 71 minutes long, which is too brief to fully explore the pain and pleasures experienced by young protagonist James Charm (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Meanwhile, given how the stakes are low and the themes repeat throughout, a 30-minute version of the same material could have been more focused and affecting. Alas, the film must cope with a slender running time.
Although his surname is Charm, James is anything but charming. Obsessed with the macabre, he draws sketches of dead birds and insects in his notebook, and also tells the school bully he expects him to die within the next year. (That altercation gives James a black eye.) Mom Abigail (Virginia Madsen) doesn’t know how to deal with her son’s morbidity, especially after the death of her husband.
Although his surname is Charm, James is anything but charming. Obsessed with the macabre, he draws sketches of dead birds and insects in his notebook, and also tells the school bully he expects him to die within the next year. (That altercation gives James a black eye.) Mom Abigail (Virginia Madsen) doesn’t know how to deal with her son’s morbidity, especially after the death of her husband.
- 2/20/2015
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Wild at Heart: Johnson’s Solipsistic, Sincere Coming-of-Age Drama
Initially titled The Wilderness of James when it premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, Michael Johnson’s directorial debut has been re-titled All the Wilderness, perhaps in an effort to extend its poetic fascination with death into a more universal realm. But the wilderness is a place “where all things go to live…and to die,” our protagonist narrates to us, quoting wisdom from his deceased father, who instilled in his son that ‘each man’s wilderness is his own,’ before he committed suicide in front of his kid. Johnson’s narrative remains a very singular narrative about how tragedy has irreparably tainted one particular adolescent’s coming-of-age tale, which is, for all intents and purposes, otherwise quite uneventful. But Johnson relates how a father’s actions have created toxic ripples within his son’s life. Though performances and tech...
Initially titled The Wilderness of James when it premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, Michael Johnson’s directorial debut has been re-titled All the Wilderness, perhaps in an effort to extend its poetic fascination with death into a more universal realm. But the wilderness is a place “where all things go to live…and to die,” our protagonist narrates to us, quoting wisdom from his deceased father, who instilled in his son that ‘each man’s wilderness is his own,’ before he committed suicide in front of his kid. Johnson’s narrative remains a very singular narrative about how tragedy has irreparably tainted one particular adolescent’s coming-of-age tale, which is, for all intents and purposes, otherwise quite uneventful. But Johnson relates how a father’s actions have created toxic ripples within his son’s life. Though performances and tech...
- 2/18/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A death in the family is always unsettling, which may explain why adolescent James Charm (Kodi Smit-McPhee), whose father has just died, runs from imaginary(?) hooded creatures and has taken to telling people the dates of their own eventual deaths. If that sounds insufferably quirky, then you're not giving All the Wilderness, Michael Johnson's thoughtful debut, enough credit. Certainly our Chopin-listening, Carl Sandburg–reading (the poet's "Wilderness" provides both inspiration and backdrop for the film) protagonist has the potential for maximum melodrama. Unfortunately, James's behavior only serves to agitate mom Abigail (Virginia Madsen), while proving largely indecipherable to his therapi...
- 2/18/2015
- Village Voice
During the 1920s, as a large part of America danced to the sounds of the Jazz Age, the poet Carl Sandburg took it upon himself to cross the country and collect indigenous folk songs, encompassing everything from backwoods reels to black spirituals to Mexican ballads. He understood that there was something uniquely American imbedded — and, portentously, brewing — in the music. A friend gave me the book 20 or 25 years ago. The dedication Sandburg writes at the front of the book has stayed with me in the years since. It appears as prose, but I'm going to spread it out so it reads like the poetry it is: To those unknown singers who made songs out of love, fun, grief and those many other singers who kept those things of the heart and mind out of love, fun, grief.The words came to mind again as I listened to...
- 11/5/2014
- by Bill Wyman
- Vulture
Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was one of the very first movies that I ever saw in theaters. It was a magical movie going experience that I'll never forget. It has been 32 years since this movie was released, and there's so much about it that I didn't know until I put together this list of trivia for you to browse through. Here are 15 fun facts about E.T., some of which you might not know about.
Steven Spielberg shot most of the film from the eye-level of a child to further connect with Elliot and E.T. With the exception of Elliot's mom, no adults' faces are shown until the last half of the film.Most of the full-body puppetry was performed by a 2' 10 tall stuntman, but the scenes in the kitchen were done using a 10-year old boy who was born without legs but was an expert on walking on his hands.
Steven Spielberg shot most of the film from the eye-level of a child to further connect with Elliot and E.T. With the exception of Elliot's mom, no adults' faces are shown until the last half of the film.Most of the full-body puppetry was performed by a 2' 10 tall stuntman, but the scenes in the kitchen were done using a 10-year old boy who was born without legs but was an expert on walking on his hands.
- 7/14/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage, by Stephen D. Korshak and J David Spurlock, Vanguard Publishing, retail: $39.95 hardcover, Amazon $16.59 softcover / $28.61 hardcover.
Generally speaking, when I’m reading a biography of a spectacularly talented popular culture artist I rarely encounter a lot of references to the Industrial Workers of the World. In the interest of full disclosure, I was a member of the Iww and I still fully sympathize with the heritage and the goals of the Wobblies. So there.
Irrespective of her personal history, Margaret Brundage’s pulp illustrations – mostly for Weird Tales – speak for themselves. They were spectacularly sensual, evoking the most base emotions in the true pulp tradition. That she was a woman made her work all the more unusual: back then, commercial illustration was very much an old boy’s club, and generally old W.A.S.P. boys at that. Then again, it is likely a...
Generally speaking, when I’m reading a biography of a spectacularly talented popular culture artist I rarely encounter a lot of references to the Industrial Workers of the World. In the interest of full disclosure, I was a member of the Iww and I still fully sympathize with the heritage and the goals of the Wobblies. So there.
Irrespective of her personal history, Margaret Brundage’s pulp illustrations – mostly for Weird Tales – speak for themselves. They were spectacularly sensual, evoking the most base emotions in the true pulp tradition. That she was a woman made her work all the more unusual: back then, commercial illustration was very much an old boy’s club, and generally old W.A.S.P. boys at that. Then again, it is likely a...
- 7/3/2013
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
The actor's Honest Abe is brilliant, says John Patterson, but others have made Lincoln their own, too
Although Steven Spielberg's new movie Lincoln barely shows the event, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by an actor – in a theatre, no less – so it seems especially appropriate that, a century and a half later, his resurrection should be conducted by a member of the same profession. Daniel Day-Lewis's embodiment of the Great Emancipator, which transcends mere acting and becomes something more like live sculpting, will take every Best Actor statuette and bauble of the spring awards season, without a doubt, and is now the Lincoln to beat; an Elder Lincoln to bookend Henry Fonda's coltish and knock-kneed Young Mr Lincoln in John Ford's exquisite slice of Americana from 1939.
Lincoln has been portrayed on film and television over 270 times since the dawn of celluloid. That's predictable enough, given his overarching prominence in American history,...
Although Steven Spielberg's new movie Lincoln barely shows the event, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by an actor – in a theatre, no less – so it seems especially appropriate that, a century and a half later, his resurrection should be conducted by a member of the same profession. Daniel Day-Lewis's embodiment of the Great Emancipator, which transcends mere acting and becomes something more like live sculpting, will take every Best Actor statuette and bauble of the spring awards season, without a doubt, and is now the Lincoln to beat; an Elder Lincoln to bookend Henry Fonda's coltish and knock-kneed Young Mr Lincoln in John Ford's exquisite slice of Americana from 1939.
Lincoln has been portrayed on film and television over 270 times since the dawn of celluloid. That's predictable enough, given his overarching prominence in American history,...
- 1/21/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Hey, why didn't firebrand gay writer Tony Kushner express his belief that Abe Lincoln was probably gay in the biopic he wrote for Steven Spielberg? When Kushner began tackling the script six years ago, rumors flew claiming that he got Spielberg to agree to let him show a hint of lavender (to quote Carl Sandburg's description of Lincoln), but the final version is sexless. "I find it difficult to believe that Lincoln was banging anybody" at that time in history when he was "ground to a pulp by the war and by the pressures of his job," Kushner says in our video chat. "Now maybe he was. I personally believe that there is some reason to speculate that Lincoln might have been bisexual or gay." Historical evidence is titillating. Much has been made about the fact that Lincoln slept in the same bed with his pal Joshua Speed for...
- 11/15/2012
- Gold Derby
Sure, Sunday always seems to be overcrowded with high-end TV, with "Boardwalk Empire," "Hell on Wheels," "Copper" and "Treme," not to mention "Homeland" and "Dexter," both returning on Sept. 30, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week. "American Masters": "The Day Carl Sandburg Died" Monday, September 24, at 10pm on PBS On the 45th anniversary of Carl Sandburg's death, PBS' "American Masters" program looks back at the life and legacy of the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author. This episode features interviews with Sandburg’s daughter Helga Sandburg Crile, Pete Seeger, the late Studs Terkel and an array of poets and scholars who share their thoughts on Sandburg and his work, and who defend his since-faded reputation as a writer. Among other things, Sandburg was...
- 9/24/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
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"Radical Emma Goldman famously demanded 'fun' as a precondition of revolution (the nerve!), and Bl associate editor Andrew Grossman agrees," writes editor Gary Morris, introducing the new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal. "Leading off the Articles section, he collates the 'polka tremblante' (aka Bohemian polka) with strolls through Byzantine ascetic philosopher Leontev, Nosferatu, and Carl Sandburg in a magical riff. Equally dazzling is Dave Saunders's paean to the Connectitrons via Hugo, The Big Clock, and Jeanne La Pucelle (Parts 1 and 2)."
Also in Issue 75: "Every trip must end, and our 'empty guest room' is unusually full this time. Jack Stevenson, who knows all things underground, offers thoughtful tributes to two talents associated with, among other things, the Kuchars: Marion Eaton, star of Thundercrack!, and Bob Cowan, who appeared in various Kuchar efforts. These are the kinds of rare histories that would not be written but for Jack,...
"Radical Emma Goldman famously demanded 'fun' as a precondition of revolution (the nerve!), and Bl associate editor Andrew Grossman agrees," writes editor Gary Morris, introducing the new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal. "Leading off the Articles section, he collates the 'polka tremblante' (aka Bohemian polka) with strolls through Byzantine ascetic philosopher Leontev, Nosferatu, and Carl Sandburg in a magical riff. Equally dazzling is Dave Saunders's paean to the Connectitrons via Hugo, The Big Clock, and Jeanne La Pucelle (Parts 1 and 2)."
Also in Issue 75: "Every trip must end, and our 'empty guest room' is unusually full this time. Jack Stevenson, who knows all things underground, offers thoughtful tributes to two talents associated with, among other things, the Kuchars: Marion Eaton, star of Thundercrack!, and Bob Cowan, who appeared in various Kuchar efforts. These are the kinds of rare histories that would not be written but for Jack,...
- 2/15/2012
- MUBI
Jennifer Beals is returning to TV for a two-episode arc on "Castle," and her CIA agent character Sophia Turner will be stirring up emotions between Castle and Beckett. Could her history with Castle finally inspire Beckett to share her true feelings for him once and for all and maybe return those three little words?
In the upcoming episode, "Pandora" (Mon., Feb. 13, 10 p.m. Est on ABC), and its follow-up on Feb. 20, "Linchpin," the stakes have never been higher for Castle and Beckett as they work with Sophia and the CIA to solve an international conspiracy that could have a massive effect on the U.S.
I caught up with Beals, who was cagey about whether or not her past with Castle was romantic at all, but she did reveal that he shadowed Sophia years ago and modeled his character Clara Strike after her ... meaning Beckett isn't his first muse. She...
In the upcoming episode, "Pandora" (Mon., Feb. 13, 10 p.m. Est on ABC), and its follow-up on Feb. 20, "Linchpin," the stakes have never been higher for Castle and Beckett as they work with Sophia and the CIA to solve an international conspiracy that could have a massive effect on the U.S.
I caught up with Beals, who was cagey about whether or not her past with Castle was romantic at all, but she did reveal that he shadowed Sophia years ago and modeled his character Clara Strike after her ... meaning Beckett isn't his first muse. She...
- 2/10/2012
- by Maggie Furlong
- Aol TV.
Jennifer Beals is returning to TV for a two-episode arc on "Castle," and her CIA agent character Sophia Turner will be stirring up emotions between Castle and Beckett. Could her history with Castle finally inspire Beckett to share her true feelings for him once and for all and maybe return those three little words?
In the upcoming episode, "Pandora" (Mon., Feb. 13, 10 p.m. Est on ABC), and its follow-up on Feb. 20, "Linchpin," the stakes have never been higher for Castle and Beckett as they work with Sophia and the CIA to solve an international conspiracy that could have a massive effect on the U.S.
I caught up with Beals, who was cagey about whether or not her past with Castle was romantic at all, but she did reveal that he shadowed Sophia years ago and modeled his character Clara Strike after her ... meaning Beckett isn't his first muse. She...
In the upcoming episode, "Pandora" (Mon., Feb. 13, 10 p.m. Est on ABC), and its follow-up on Feb. 20, "Linchpin," the stakes have never been higher for Castle and Beckett as they work with Sophia and the CIA to solve an international conspiracy that could have a massive effect on the U.S.
I caught up with Beals, who was cagey about whether or not her past with Castle was romantic at all, but she did reveal that he shadowed Sophia years ago and modeled his character Clara Strike after her ... meaning Beckett isn't his first muse. She...
- 2/10/2012
- by Maggie Furlong
- Huffington Post
It was during the making of Gattaca that writer-director Andrew Niccol first got the idea of In Time. In the highly regarded thriller, the question of identity lies at the forefront of the storyline. Niccol had a thought at the time about what would happen if we could alter the age gene and people would stop aging at twenty-five. That inspiration which proved too much exposition for Gattaca has produced Niccol’s next film, In Time, which stars Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried as two people at either end of the time-as-money spectrum.
Niccol sat down with Movie Fanatic for an exclusive interview about the finer points of In Time and also his thoughts on getting the gig as the writer-director who will bring Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s expansive and mind-blowing The Host to screens.
Movie Fanatic: In Time is such a mind-blowing idea. What was the genesis of the movie for you?...
Niccol sat down with Movie Fanatic for an exclusive interview about the finer points of In Time and also his thoughts on getting the gig as the writer-director who will bring Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s expansive and mind-blowing The Host to screens.
Movie Fanatic: In Time is such a mind-blowing idea. What was the genesis of the movie for you?...
- 10/26/2011
- by joel.amos@moviefanatic.com (Joel D Amos)
- Reel Movie News
Dan Zanes in his studio with singer Andrew Bird.
You might expect the headquarters of a kids’ music kingpin to look something like Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Full of whimsical props and maybe a talking animal or two. In the Brooklyn, N.Y., office housing the record label and recording studio of Dan Zanes, the ‘80s rocker turned family-music entrepreneur, there is a yipping Chihuahua (Maxine), a giant cut-out pigeon and a handful of diddley bows (picture a one-stringed guitar made...
You might expect the headquarters of a kids’ music kingpin to look something like Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Full of whimsical props and maybe a talking animal or two. In the Brooklyn, N.Y., office housing the record label and recording studio of Dan Zanes, the ‘80s rocker turned family-music entrepreneur, there is a yipping Chihuahua (Maxine), a giant cut-out pigeon and a handful of diddley bows (picture a one-stringed guitar made...
- 10/1/2011
- by John Jurgensen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Was E. E. Cummings a Racist?
That was the provocative HuffPost-style headline May 27 on Brow Beat, a culture blog on Slate.com. The author, Nina Shen Rastogi, reported that a lost poem by e. e. cummings had been discovered. The poem, named "(tonite," was published in the Awl, whose editor, Choire Sicha, tweeted that it was "reeeeaaaal troublesome!!!"
Her tweet linked to an excellent essay by James Dempsey, which is about a long-running correspondence between Cummings and his friend Scofield Thayer, the publisher of the important literary magazine The Dial.
Dempsey wrote:
"I've been researching Thayer for about five years now, with the aim of writing a biography that would give him his share of credit for publishing The Dial. It was while researching that book at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, that I came across the previously unknown, unpublished poem by Cummings, "(tonite."
"The poem...begins with a parenthesis,...
That was the provocative HuffPost-style headline May 27 on Brow Beat, a culture blog on Slate.com. The author, Nina Shen Rastogi, reported that a lost poem by e. e. cummings had been discovered. The poem, named "(tonite," was published in the Awl, whose editor, Choire Sicha, tweeted that it was "reeeeaaaal troublesome!!!"
Her tweet linked to an excellent essay by James Dempsey, which is about a long-running correspondence between Cummings and his friend Scofield Thayer, the publisher of the important literary magazine The Dial.
Dempsey wrote:
"I've been researching Thayer for about five years now, with the aim of writing a biography that would give him his share of credit for publishing The Dial. It was while researching that book at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, that I came across the previously unknown, unpublished poem by Cummings, "(tonite."
"The poem...begins with a parenthesis,...
- 5/28/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
On the other end of the phone, Jennifer Beals is reading a Carl Sandburg poem titled "Chicago." Scratch that — she's performing it.
The poem celebrates Chicago's blue-collar work ethic as what trumps portrayals of the city as a corrupt, dangerous place to live. It's the best way for Beals, a Windy City native and star of Fox's The Chicago Code, to explain how she — and her character, Police Superintendent Teresa Colvin — feel about the place they call home.
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The poem celebrates Chicago's blue-collar work ethic as what trumps portrayals of the city as a corrupt, dangerous place to live. It's the best way for Beals, a Windy City native and star of Fox's The Chicago Code, to explain how she — and her character, Police Superintendent Teresa Colvin — feel about the place they call home.
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- 2/21/2011
- by Adam Bryant
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Bill Nack is a born story-teller. The author of the biography Secretariat has enveloped me time and again in the fascination of his tales. That process began nearly 50 years ago at the University of Illinois, when we were both working on The Daily Illini. I was the editor, he was the sports editor, and then the following year he was the editor. He was also a natural writer -- and, perhaps more significantly, a natural reader. His taste was persuasive.
He approached literature like a gourmet. He relished it, savored it, inhaled it, and after memorizing it rolled it on his tongue and spoke it aloud. It was Nack who already knew in the early 1960s, when he was a very young man, that Nabokov was perhaps the supreme stylist of modern novelists. He recited to me from Lolita, and from Speak, Memory and Pnin. I was spellbound.
He knew...
He approached literature like a gourmet. He relished it, savored it, inhaled it, and after memorizing it rolled it on his tongue and spoke it aloud. It was Nack who already knew in the early 1960s, when he was a very young man, that Nabokov was perhaps the supreme stylist of modern novelists. He recited to me from Lolita, and from Speak, Memory and Pnin. I was spellbound.
He knew...
- 10/17/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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This week’s episode really ramps things up to a new level. The actors seem much more comfortable and believable in their parts and the whole concept of the show is starting to really gel. I think this show has a lot of potential and has really started to pique my interest. At the onset, we finally get the double meaning behind last weeks “Exit One” title. Apparently, you can check out of the hotel but you don’t get to do it alive.
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Joe’s Revenge
The episode begins with one of the Chinese restaurant workers (who we now know is a watcher) viewing each of the Hotelies as they slumber all along quoting excerpts from Carl Sandburg. He suddenly notices that one of the guests (Joe) is not in his room. As he is frantically looking at the monitors,...
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This week’s episode really ramps things up to a new level. The actors seem much more comfortable and believable in their parts and the whole concept of the show is starting to really gel. I think this show has a lot of potential and has really started to pique my interest. At the onset, we finally get the double meaning behind last weeks “Exit One” title. Apparently, you can check out of the hotel but you don’t get to do it alive.
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Joe’s Revenge
The episode begins with one of the Chinese restaurant workers (who we now know is a watcher) viewing each of the Hotelies as they slumber all along quoting excerpts from Carl Sandburg. He suddenly notices that one of the guests (Joe) is not in his room. As he is frantically looking at the monitors,...
- 7/7/2010
- by Donald A. Salerno
I am back everyone. A hardy thank you to Jordan Cramer for subbing for me last week and writing the recap for "Exit One." If you missed last week's episode, read Jordan's recap here. Also, you may have heard that NBC is jettisoning Persons Unknown to the netherworld of summer Saturday evenings as of July 17th. Once again, NBC has decided that a show isn't worth their time, even when they are responsible for not marketing it well. God knows what they're going to put on instead, but there you have it. However, it isn't the 17th yet, so we had a new episode, "Incoming," this week.
The episode begins with the surveillance camera focused on Janet sleeping. A man recites Carl Sandburg's "Wilderness" as he switches the camera feed amongst the Captives. It's Tom, the manager of the Chinese restaurant and one of Joe's conspirators. Tom flashes through...
The episode begins with the surveillance camera focused on Janet sleeping. A man recites Carl Sandburg's "Wilderness" as he switches the camera feed amongst the Captives. It's Tom, the manager of the Chinese restaurant and one of Joe's conspirators. Tom flashes through...
- 7/6/2010
- by Michael Salerno
- TVovermind.com
We're posting our recap of Bones' 100th episode early because it was so good, we don't want to wait any longer to discuss it. Fans in other time zones, come back once you've watched. We'll be here. Spoilers ahead... As I said when I reviewed this episode for EW's What to Watch section and gave it an A, Bones has a shaky track record when it comes to "big" episodes. More than one season finale has polarized fans. But whether or not you understand why Brennan can't just open her heart and be with Booth already (more on that...
- 4/9/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe, shot nine months before her death, are set to go under the hammer.
The Some Like It Hot star was snapped by photographer Len Steckler as she visited poet Carl Sandburg in a New York apartment in December 1961.
The blonde bombshell is depicted wearing pointed glasses and a short-sleeved dress, while sipping whiskey and holding hands with the 83 year old.
Steckler tells Reuters, "It was serendipitous with these two icons in their moment and me here with my camera.
"I went to open the door and there I was face-to-face with Marilyn Monroe, and she looked more ravishing than on the screen. She said 'I am sorry I am late. I was at the hairdresser's, matching my hair to Carl's.'
"As we know, Marilyn loved older men, she loved the intellectuals and Carl was very parental with her. It was a lovely thing to see."
Monroe died in August 1962, while Sandburg passed away in 1967.
Steckler decided to sell the collection, entitled Marilyn Monroe: The Visit, after his son discovered the negatives.
The Some Like It Hot star was snapped by photographer Len Steckler as she visited poet Carl Sandburg in a New York apartment in December 1961.
The blonde bombshell is depicted wearing pointed glasses and a short-sleeved dress, while sipping whiskey and holding hands with the 83 year old.
Steckler tells Reuters, "It was serendipitous with these two icons in their moment and me here with my camera.
"I went to open the door and there I was face-to-face with Marilyn Monroe, and she looked more ravishing than on the screen. She said 'I am sorry I am late. I was at the hairdresser's, matching my hair to Carl's.'
"As we know, Marilyn loved older men, she loved the intellectuals and Carl was very parental with her. It was a lovely thing to see."
Monroe died in August 1962, while Sandburg passed away in 1967.
Steckler decided to sell the collection, entitled Marilyn Monroe: The Visit, after his son discovered the negatives.
- 2/8/2010
- WENN
So, what are you doing After the Apocalypse? Have you planned your post-civilization existence yet? Hidden an All-Terrain vehicle away at your fortified vacation cabin? Salted in supplies of beef jerky, evaporated milk, canned beans and Spam? Can opener? Crossbow & bolts? Heavy blankets? Snuggie? Guns & ammo? Geiger counter? Crossword puzzles? A case of toilet paper and Post-It Notes might also be helpful. Supermarkets and big box stores just aren’t going to be open after the world ends. Wal-Mart, maybe. McDonald’s. And Starbucks, of course.
It’s a fair question, this consideration of Life After the Fall. Survivalists are probably best prepared for the eventuality, but we science fiction fans can’t be far behind. Inadvertently, we’ve done the research. We’ve studied up by watching our share of films (Five, the Mad Max trilogy, On The Beach, Panic In The Year Zero, Waterworld, The Day After Tomorrow,...
It’s a fair question, this consideration of Life After the Fall. Survivalists are probably best prepared for the eventuality, but we science fiction fans can’t be far behind. Inadvertently, we’ve done the research. We’ve studied up by watching our share of films (Five, the Mad Max trilogy, On The Beach, Panic In The Year Zero, Waterworld, The Day After Tomorrow,...
- 10/5/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
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