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Sep. 21st, 2007
Vincent Price, Vincent Price
Sep. 21st, 2007 07:58 amIt thought some of you might be interested in the following, particularly since we were all shocked to see Vincent Price playing the hottie playboy in Laura.
( MGM Scream Legends Collection )
( MGM Scream Legends Collection )
FBOFW update...
Sep. 21st, 2007 08:00 amEnd of Marriage Leads to New Content in Revamped Strip
By Dave Astor
Published: September 07, 2007 11:00 AM ET
NEW YORK As "For Better or For Worse" moved into "hybrid" mode this week with a look back at how Elly and John Patterson met, few readers of Lynn Johnston's partly autobiographical comic knew that her real-life husband left her this April.
The news that Rod Johnston had met someone else was a devastating shock to Lynn, whose millions of fans thought her long marriage -- like the long marriage of Elly and John -- was "storybook" in nature. "It shows our family was as vulnerable as anyone," she said during a phone interview with E&P.
But there's a silver lining of sorts in the breakup of the marriage, which will probably officially end in divorce next April. Johnston, who's feeling much better about the separation than she did this spring, has been devoting more time to her hybrid comic than initially planned. And she intends to continue doing so -- meaning there'll be more "new" in the new-old "FBorFW" than anyone could have expected.
By Dave Astor
Published: September 07, 2007 11:00 AM ET
NEW YORK As "For Better or For Worse" moved into "hybrid" mode this week with a look back at how Elly and John Patterson met, few readers of Lynn Johnston's partly autobiographical comic knew that her real-life husband left her this April.
The news that Rod Johnston had met someone else was a devastating shock to Lynn, whose millions of fans thought her long marriage -- like the long marriage of Elly and John -- was "storybook" in nature. "It shows our family was as vulnerable as anyone," she said during a phone interview with E&P.
But there's a silver lining of sorts in the breakup of the marriage, which will probably officially end in divorce next April. Johnston, who's feeling much better about the separation than she did this spring, has been devoting more time to her hybrid comic than initially planned. And she intends to continue doing so -- meaning there'll be more "new" in the new-old "FBorFW" than anyone could have expected.
The Assassination of Jesse James...
Sep. 21st, 2007 08:46 amfrom Manola Dargis' review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I haven't decided if I'm going to see it yet:
The question of whether the world or cinema needs another monument to an American gangster, a thug who lived by the gun and repeatedly killed in cold blood, remains unanswered by the film and its makers. And perhaps that isn’t a question worth asking. This is, after all, meant to be an evening’s entertainment, and its burdens should remain modest even if its goals are not.... The true story of Jesse James, despite all the dime novels and B movies, remains untold, perhaps because in its savagery it really is as American as apple pie and, as such, unspeakably hard to tell.
It's an excellent question, and one I've asked repeatedly as I've explored both Westerns in film, and the West in history and popular imagination.
The question of whether the world or cinema needs another monument to an American gangster, a thug who lived by the gun and repeatedly killed in cold blood, remains unanswered by the film and its makers. And perhaps that isn’t a question worth asking. This is, after all, meant to be an evening’s entertainment, and its burdens should remain modest even if its goals are not.... The true story of Jesse James, despite all the dime novels and B movies, remains untold, perhaps because in its savagery it really is as American as apple pie and, as such, unspeakably hard to tell.
It's an excellent question, and one I've asked repeatedly as I've explored both Westerns in film, and the West in history and popular imagination.
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