Uggams told us a movie like "American Fiction" would have been unthinkable when she started in show business seven decades ago. As a teenager, she became the first African American woman to appear as a regular on a TV variety show: "Sing Along with Mitch." "Oh my god, ...
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Whether it's gliding gracefully across the sky, walking casually on the water, or fracturing all your bones with a single hit, traditional Chinese martial arts masters have long thrived in Kungfu movies and Wuxia fiction for generations. China sends homegrown jumbo passenger jet C919 into sky ...
her few years in her twenties she was a journalist, writing feature stories forThe Atlanta Journal. These experiences could have given her the knowledge and research skills to write accurately about the dancing of the mid-nineteenth century, which is not always the case in historical fiction. ...
MOVIE MUSIC & MORRICONEThe patron saint of movie music is surely the Emperor Nero. With Rome blazing around him and homes and people crisping, he decided against calling the fire brigade. "Poppaea," he said, turning to his wife, "bring me my fiddle." The rest is history. Or at least...
Kirk in the revolutionary science fiction television series Star Trek (1966-1969). The show catapulted Shatner into global fame, and his portrayal of the fearless leader of the Starship Enterprise has since become a symbol of the genre. Following the conclusion of the...
Disney didn’t have to make an excellent movie after the success of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves, but the studio did more than expected, making one of the greatest and most-beloved animated films of all time. Almost everything about this piece was an improvement over Snow White: the ...
Midsommar(2009) – A24 and Ari Aster have become the surest ways to get me to a movie theater these days, and Midsommar is a good example of why. It’s brutal and a “don’t-look-away” story that chills your heart (and may turn your stomach), about Dani, a young woman mourning...
also producedfiction, memoirs, essays, and important scholarly texts. Allen in particular advocated for the inclusion of Native works in the American literary canon. In 2019 Harjo, also a musician whose poetry is notable for its powerful aural elements, became the first Native American to be appo...
near you likeThe Hustler, a movie about a fast boy who plays pool. Paul Newman played Fast Eddie Felson and appeared in a theater near me and also wet daydreams. I used to splash myself with his dressing. undressing on the billiard ...