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Full Metal Racket: Consider This Ed Harris' Just Say No-No

Michael Bialas | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: John Glenn, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Jackson Pollock, Amy Madigan, Stanley Kubrick, Mayor John Hickenlooper, Jennifer Connelly, Denver Film Festival, R. Lee Ermey, Peter Weir, Agnieszka Holland, Denver, Movies, Denver News
Michael Bialas

During an impressive career in which he's played the good (The Right Stuff), the bad (Pollock) and the hideously ugly (A History of Violence), Ed Harris has no regrets.

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The Alarming Decline Of Expressive Language, In Life and On Film

John Farr | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: George C. Scott, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, William Holden, Instant Messaging, Sterling Hayden, All About Eve, Faye Dunaway, Ernest Lehman, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sellers, Best Movies by Farr, Burt Lancaster, Walter Huston, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Jenkins, George Sanders, Janus Films, Stanley Kubrick, Clifford Odets, Technology, A.O. Scott, Sidney Lumet, Humphrey Bogart, Criterion Collection, Preston Sturges, The Academy Awards, Writing, Al Pacino, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Double Indemnity, Tony Curtis, John Ford, Screenwriting, John Huston, Anne Baxter, Essential Art Films, Marcel Carne, Peter Finch, Paddy Chayefsky, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Walter Winchell, Bette Davis, Entertainment News
John Farr

Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.

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The Shining: Scariest Hallowe'en Book -- and Movie! -- Ever

Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.31.2009 | Books

Read More: Jack Torrance, Wendy Torrance, Rachel Sklar, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Shelly Duvall, Jack Nicholson, Overlook Hotel, Books News
Rachel Sklar

The Shining, which I read at 12, taught me to fear hotel room bathtubs, what a topiary was, why you can't forget about the boiler, and the phrase "officious little prick."

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In a World Starved For Great Comedy, Why Not Revisit Some Stellar Sellers?

John Farr | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: James Mason, George C. Scott, Angela Lansbury, Spike Milligan, Stanley Kubrick, George Roy Hill, Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellers, Best Movies by Farr, Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Blake Edwards, Shirley MacLaine, The Goons, David Niven, Hal Ashby, Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Rush, Terry-Thomas, Entertainment News
John Farr

Peter Sellers, best known to the world as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the "Pink Panther" series, would have turned 84 this month. Wouldn't life be brighter if this comic genius hadn't left us so soon?

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Quentin Tarantino and Morally Responsible Cinema

Mike Miley | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Clockwork Orange, Inglourious Basterds, Stanley Kubrick, Pulp Fiction, Entertainment News
Mike Miley

Tarantino gets singled out as being morally vacant because he makes violence funny, and he's successful because he's really good at it.

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In the Loop: Bitter Brit Political Comedy with Bite

Brad Schreiber | Posted 07.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Iraq War, Washington DC, Political Satire, Brit-Coms, Stanley Kubrick, British Comedy, Satire, Entertainment News
Brad Schreiber

In the Loop is a swift, virulent and richly verbose slam at British and American governmental officials trying to avoid or ensure a joint US-UK invasion of the Middle East.

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Halloween and Celebration Inflation

Linda Kulman | Posted 12.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Stanley Kubrick, Halloween Costumes, World Series, Nicole Kidman, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Eyes Wide Shut, Halloween, Tom Cruise, Sarah Palin, Happiness, Living News
Linda Kulman

When did celebration inflation raise Halloween up from being a rinky-dink deal for kids to a national holiday for adults? And why?

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Bear Stearns As Sacrifical Lamb

Vince Farrell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Carlos Gutierrez, JP Morgan, Stanley Kubrick, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Secretary of Commerce, Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Bear Stearns, Subprime Mortgages, Jimmy Cayne, Glass-Steagall, Collaterized Bonds, Business News
Vince Farrell

Maybe Bear deserved to fail, or maybe it was just bad luck to be in the cross-hairs at the wrong time. But I can see how stockholders and employees would be enraged.

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