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Clearly, Stewart loved Gloria with the generosity and tenacity of his best screen characters. They were a famously compatible couple, entertaining friends and, after Stewart's informal retirement in the late '70s, traveling on safaris. The Stewarts also made an annual trip to Washington, where they paid tribute to Gloria...
Now and then, Communist filmmakers tried entertaining the masses with what the official press derisively called "the most flagrant offspring of the capitalist pleasure industry": musical comedies. East Side Story is the history of that glorious, doomed attempt to create an all-singing, all-dancing genre within the unsmiling dictates...
But when I've found it possible to avoid TV, I've done just that. I've learned to focus on newspapers, magazines and the internet-far more effective sources of information than the tube on just about anything-and movies and books-the best of which are far more...
For anyone who misses the angst of early Morrissey or is weary of production levels beyond what can be accomplished in a high-schooler's bedroom--or anyone who has waited for a friend for hours in the pouring rain--the ballads of the Mountain Goats soar with innocence and...
Above all, she was a good person: caring, loyal, entertaining, at times wonderfully exasperating, a lover of good conversation and friendships. Her elegance, exacting standards and generosity will live on, I hope, in our own careers and pages.