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Also in 1995, Lon “L.T.” Grammer was expelled from Yale and charged with larceny after it was revealed that he had forged parts of his transfer application. He was revealed as a fraud after his former roommate overheard him bragging about fooling the Yale Office of Admissions and reported him to the Yale Police Department...
...editor-at-large Richard Lacayo, who also headed up last year's Making of America issue on Mark Twain. Deputy chief of reporters Andrea Dorfman and interns Rebecca Kaplan and Eric Dodds immersed themselves in F.D.R.'s career. Associate art director Andre Kahlmorgan designed the package, artist Lon Tweeten produced the WW II graphic, and picture editor Deirdre Read tracked down the photographs that bring the past to life. Let unconquerable gladness dwell...
...Silent films. Once a larger part of TCM programming, mute cinema is now mostly confined to a Sunday-midnight niche - a glorious grotto, whose saints are Lon Chaney, Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Marion Davies and other stars of MGM silents. The slot also is home to early masterworks from France (Jacques Feyder's Queen of Atlantis), Germany (F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh) and Sweden (Victor Sjostrom's Phantom Carriage). The country doesn't matter; all these films speak an eloquent visual language...
...very essence of acting. He made himself nearly unrecognizable - put on maybe 40 lb., studded his face and body with the scars of war - to play a has-been fighter hoping for a last shot at the big time. It's the kind of punishment that won kudos for Lon Chaney and Paul Muni in the old days and helped Robert De Niro to an Oscar in Raging Bull playing Jake LaMotta. (He got himself into fighting shape, then he gained a ton of weight! Acting!) One more because: Rourke does strong, sensitive work here, which will cheer...
...very essence of acting. He made himself nearly unrecognizable - put on maybe 50 pounds, studded his face and body with the scars of war - to play a has-been fighter hoping for a last shot at the big time. It's the kind of punishment that won kudos for Lon Chaney and Paul Muni in the old days, and helped Robert De Niro to an Oscar in Raging Bull playing Jake LaMotta. (He got himself into fighting shape, then he gained a ton of weight! Acting!) Beyond the stunt aspect, Rourke does strong, sensitive work. All praise...