There’s something of a known canon of Christmas songs. Most of them are jazz-influenced standards…
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Like the William Wharton novel it’s based on, Alan Parker’s film Birdy is concerned with…
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Grasshoppers hold two basic places in Western culture. One is as the enormous force of…
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It begins with a close-up of the stage floor, a streak of light cutting vertically…
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It’s 1984, the year of clocks striking 13 and loving Big Brother, the year of…
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The second person I wrote about for this column was Olivia de Havilland. One of…
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Growing up, I watched the Indiana Jones movies incessantly. Correction: I watched Raiders of the…
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