LARRY McSHANE
It was in the film Bang the Drum Slowly. Later, he got a role in the film The Godfather PartⅡ. The film was one of the greatest films in history. He won his first Oscar for this role. It was the start of a great career. After this, he got many other important film roles. On...
The Godfather Part ⅡD. Bang the Drum SlowlyWhat do Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese have in common?A. They are both successful.B. They were born in the same year.C. They are both friends of a famous director.D. They shared the same dream when they were small.The writer writes ...
Nor does this cover my literary or musical influences, because,as Geddy Lee suggests, the project of tracing this stuff ain’t easy; it took a surprising amount of rumination to settle upon the ten selections studied here. (None of them are particularly obscure; if you haven’t seen all t...
Call him what you want: the patriarch of Lubbock creatives, the greatest living visual artist from Texas, the other Texas music godfather besides Willie, the storyteller of the American West. It’s all pretty much true. In 2016, Allen created Road Angel which can be seen at The Contemporary...
I don’t mean only within the comedic-material sphere, within which self-loathing has been mined for years by Woody Allen, Howard Stern, Richard Lewis, and the godfather of them all, Philip Roth in Portnoy’s Complaint.” Writing Anne R. Allen: Sex Sells, Right? Maybe Not. Why you ...
As an escape from all the bad news happening around the world—namely, global wars, climate change disasters, and the affordability crisis—I recently decided to revisit A. A. Milne’sWinnie-the-Pooh, a childhood book I remember with particular fondness. My godfather gave me a beautiful hardc...
But although Lord Blackthorn is a very charming and well-intentioned faerie godfather, his attempts to help Effie have unintended and sometimes disastrous consequences. Regency magic is one of my favourite genres, but I love how Olivia Atwater brings something extra to her books as well—an ...
On top of that, we had a major car repair, and after sinking in a big chunk of money in December, that car is now dead a month later, so we have to deal with the stress of trying to get a car loan that we can afford. And my godfather just passed away. His passing has had ...
No, I didn’t quoteThe Godfather: Part IIfor the entire trip, but I did notice some familiar things. Meyer Lansky, the real-life Hyman Roth, built the Riviera, the Havana hotel that was next to ours. “Andthereisn’t even a plaque, or a signpost or astatueof him in that town!”...