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The Onion Field

January 18, 2022

How the LAPD screwed over its own in the case that made Joseph Wambaugh want to be a writer instead.

Your Lifestyle’s Too Extreme: Gender in Dog Day Afternoon and The Rocky Horror Picture Show

January 10, 2022

Life lived in between.

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Keye Luke

January 8, 2022

Keye Luke was one of those actors who was from all over East Asia, though he was able to play his actual national background now and again.

In Memoriam

I haven’t worked a day in my life: John Madden, 1936-2021

December 29, 2021

Remembering one of football's great ambassadors, arguably the person most responsible for bringing the game into the mainstream

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[Christmas at] Candleshoe

December 21, 2021

Not only does the book have very little to do with its movie adaptation, it's not even set at Christmas!

Year of the Month

After All, Miss, This Is France: Beauty and the Beast (1946)

December 20, 2021

A tale beyond time.

Year of the Month

After the War: The Best Years of Our Lives

December 13, 2021

Returning isn’t always easy.

In Memoriam

Eh, I Think I’ll Lie Down: Michael Nesmith, 1942-2021

December 12, 2021

The One With The Hat also wanted to be The One Doing His Own Music.

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Circle of Friends

November 16, 2021

How can a movie starring Minnie Driver, Colin Firth, Saffron Burrows, and Alan Cumming have become obscure?

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Sessue Hayakawa

November 13, 2021

One of Hollywood's first sex symbols had a career deeply damaged by the same racism that kind of made him a star.