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...humor-magazine work, the political cartoons, his cunning ad campaigns and Ted's creation of one of the most enduring, least endearing antiheroes in Hollywood cartoon history. What follows comes from studying the Cohen book, rerunning my favorites from Geisel's mid-period film work, and watching Peter Jones' excellent two-hour special for A&E's "Biography," which contains much poignant data about the artist's life that I've left...
...musical megalomaniac who wants every child in the world to learn his Happy Fingers piano technique. Bart's mother Henrietta (Mary Healy) is hypnotized by the bad Doctor into becoming "second in charge of the whole Happy Fingers racket." And the putative hero, the music-loving plumber August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes, Healy's frequent co-star and, for 58 years, her husband), is a complacent fellow who takes ages to take sides with Bart against...
...Peter C. Mulcahy ’07 said that the Jews were not solely responsible for Jesus’s death in the movie’s depiction...
...acclaimed Danish mini-series The Kingdom, by filmmaker Lars von Trier, and in part on his own long hospitalization after he was struck and nearly killed by a van in 1999. The resulting series is sometimes, draggily and dully, just what you would expect from King. Artist Peter Rickman (Jack Coleman) sees grim visions after a paralyzing accident takes him to the hospital, founded on the site of an 1869 mill fire that killed scores of child laborers. But it is also sometimes fresh, wry and even wacky. Rickman's first visitor from the other side, as he lies broken...
Courtesy was a massive crossover hit, yet as he predicted, "it wasn't for everybody." Peter Jennings reportedly had Keith axed from ABC's July 4, 2002, special (the network denied that it was Jenning's call), while Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines minced no words: "I hate it. It's ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant." All of this played right into Keith's exaggerated sense of grievance. He notes that Jennings is Canadian born and wonders whether Dan Rather would have barred him from CBS. At his concerts last year, he briefly...