My old buddy and Cleveland rocker par excellence, Mr. John Petkovic, has, for his day (but still pretty rock and roll) gig at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, written a lovely…
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"The Little Colonel" (Henry B. Walthall) performs a stupid and futile but nevertheless rousing gesture in Griffith's film. In his December 2012 interview with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Quentin Tarantino…
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"Ford was fond of telling how he played a bespectacled Klansman in The Birth of a Nation, fell off his horse, and woke up with Griffith bending over him. 'Are…
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Adolf Hitler in Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), Leni Riefenstahl, 1934. "Triumph of the Will and Olympia are undoubtedly superb films (they may be the two greatest documentaries…
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There's nothing to win bythis sort of an outcryOh yeah we all know whyCuz the world a person lives inis his brain. Well mine just gives in... —Richard Hell, "Who…
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Carey, left, bringing up baby with Pedro Armendáriz, and John Wayne, in 3 Godfathers, John Ford, 1948. From Carey's 1994 memoir Company Of Heroes: My Life As An Actor In…
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