Tag Archives: Burt Lancaster

mind over matter: the jimmy fund

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Dave

When will Jimmy Carter just wander off into the sunset? Maybe just put him on a long march by foot until he gets lucky, traps a severe case of Jerusalem Syndrome and serves as a greeter in the Old City. … Continue reading →

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and in this corner….in praise of damnation

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Dave

The 700 Club. Its a great publicity stunt by Pat Robertson to get attention,to revive the flagging brand, albeit it caves in, craters to the path of least resistance which is Muslim bashing and the scenario of Sam Huntington’s Clash … Continue reading →

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frankenheimer

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dave

Soon after he discovered that his acting was terrible, John Frankenheimer decided to become a director as a twenty-year old undergraduate at Williams College. Twelve years later he had directed one hundred twenty-seven television shows and five motion pictures and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Angela Landsbury, Bruce Dern, Burt Lancaster, Daphne du Maurier, Eva Marie Saint, Gene Hackman, Geraldine Page, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Palance, James MacArthur, Jason Robards, John Frankenheimer, karl malden, Laurence Harvey, Lloyd Nolan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Condon, Sir John Gielgund, William Faulkner, William Faulkner Old Man | Leave a comment

stop the rain

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Dave

Politics. Is there a place where we collectively send rich and talented, or somewhat talented people when they have nothing left? Its hard not to acknowledge. After all, there must be something of the imminently cruel, somewhat voyeuristic attitude embedded … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amy Goodman, Burt Lancaster, Christopher Hitchens, franklin roosevelt, Gov. Rick Perry, Jack Levine, John Lennon, Noam Chomsky, Steve martin | Leave a comment

peter pumpkinhead

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Dave

…”Let him jump so that he will fill the sacks along his back bone with air and then he can not go deep to die”….”I want to see him and to touch him and to tell him he is my … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Burt Lancaster, Christopher Hitchens, Ernest Hemingway, Gov. Rick Perry, Heath Ledger, rebecca black, richard brooks, Richard Dawkins, rick perry memes, Sinclair Lewis | Leave a comment

flowers of evil : herman cain dada

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Dave

In his debates he looks almost bizarrely overconfident,brazenly recycling the same answers and obsessed with the populist mantra of 9-9-9- as if its a toll free number where you can order the godfather himself for home delivery. Its always ladies … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andre Breton, Burt Lancaster, Charles Baudelaire, E.L. Doctorow, Franz Kafka, herman cain, Hugo Ball, jacob bendian, Kurt Schwitters, leslie savan, Marcel Duchamp, marcel jenco, mark bloch, Mel Brooks, nick searcy, Ralph Ellison, Richard Huelsenbeck | Leave a comment

A GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY:”Once Crated it Exists as an Ideal”

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dave

John Frankenheimer’s “The Train” is one of the more stranger action pictures one could hope to see. It does spotlight the looting of art by the occupying Germans. “Violence exists as a detail in the industrial landscape, where humans are … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Anne Webber, Burt Lancaster, Cristian Salazar, John Frankenheimer, Lawrence Russell, Marilyn Silverman, Martin Dean, Matt Zoller Seitz, Michael Donnelly, Michael Simon, Pablo Picasso, Randy Herschaft, Rose Vallard, Steven Miles | Leave a comment

GUNSMOKE BONANZA: BALLOT BOX AT HIGH NOON

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Dave

What are westerns all about? As the gunsmoke clears from the main streets of those frontier towns, there is always a persistent political theme. … Where is the best place to hide a leaf? asked G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, … Continue reading →