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...famous 1957 essay, "Underground Films," Manny argued that "the true masters of the male action film - such soldier-cowboy-gangster directors as Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks, William Wellman, William Keighley, the early, pre-Stagecoach John Ford, Anthony Mann" - deserved a higher place in the cinema canon than the big-theme directors who won Oscars and the praise of mainstream reviewers. He praised Hawks especially "because he shows a maximum speed, inner life, and view, with the least amount of flat foot." Manny's celebration of action directors took a while to kick in - it had to be doubled or seconded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manny Farber: Termite of Genius | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

...past 10 years, electronic groups from France such as Daft Punk (whom Kanye West sampled on his recent hit Stronger) and Air have met with similar success. French rap is thriving too - in fact, the rap market in France is the second biggest after the U.S. Graham Clark, KEIGHLEY, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Artistes | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...distinguish real from false except via personal experience. I know I'm conscious, but I can't really speak for the rest of you. Peering into the brain is as futile as peering into a TV set to explain the mimicry of a sunset on the screen. ROY BUTTERFIELD Keighley, England Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1996 | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...same evening that Noon meets Mrs. Johanna Keighley (nee Von Hebenitz), wife of a doctor in Boston and mother of two sons, she invites him into her bed. The next afternoon she does so again. Writes Lawrence: "I am not going to open the door of Johanna's room, not until Mr. Noon opens it himself. I've been caught that way before. I have opened the door for you, and the moment you gave your first squeal in rushed the private detective you had kept in the background." This is a direct reference to the problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men and Women in Love | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...when the show's producer, Cecil B. DeMille, left radio because of a fight with the American Federation of Radio Artists over his refusal to pay a $1 union assessment for a political fund, Keighley got the job. A wartime Army Air Forces colonel in charge of the A.A.F. motion picture services and a Hollywood producer (The Man Who Came to Dinner, George Washington Slept Here), Keighley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Teen-Ager | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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