Tag Archives: Henry Fonda

1939: rays and wrath

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Dave

What was America really like in 1939? Well the experts behind the New York World’s Fair of 1939 with its theme of “the world of tomorrow” thought they knew, and could also predict the future. America was on the threshold … Continue reading →

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obamarama: once upon a time in the west

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Dave

Barack Obama and the slogan for 2012: “Go Forward” well defined theme that captures the leftist messianism that seems so misguided, corrupted and dysfunctional. A messianic pursuit of secular divinity and backed by trashy rags like the New York Times, … Continue reading →

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re-write the book

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Dave

More often than not, film versions of popular novels tend to give rise to unfavorable comparisons; the former pulling the literary qualities into the realm of the never-never land of American movies, the Democratic little guy and gal based on … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Betty White, charles laughton, Dalton Trumbo, Henry Fonda, Howard Taubman, Loring Mandel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Otto Preminge Advise and Consent, otto preminger, Wendell Mayes | Leave a comment

not by the book

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Dave

Throw the book away. Should movies be judged on their own merits and not on the books from which they often give cinematic form to, and nver mind where the original ideas came from? A classic example is form the … Continue reading →

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sour grapes

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Dave

There is a tendency to romanticize the past; to look back to an earlier epoch in America and the elusive “kindler, gentler America” that is referred to in such reverential tones. Truth is, the past was not so idyllic though … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Henry Fonda, john myles the grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck, Joseph Schumpeter, Lyle Boren, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, shirley temple, Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath | Leave a comment

spilling the magic beans

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dave

Double dip or double down? A double double? The question is whether we are simply procrastinating on realizing that technology is essentially deflationary and we are accumulating a waiting list of unemployment. President Obama’s dinner with Silicon Valley high tech … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged american economic policy, darcus howe, david rosenberg, dean zerbe forbes, Henry Fonda, Izima Kaoru, James Gillray, John Maynard Keynes, John Steinbeck, Joseph Stiglitz, london riots 2011, martin feldstein, Martin Luther King, melanie pullen photography, milton friedman, Paul Krugman, robert reich, technological unemployment, United States Small Business Act | Leave a comment

PESSIMISM AT THE OK CORRAL

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Dave

Do we blow up the ranch and burn the town or just take it over and run it into the ground? There has been a tendency in the discipline of film studies to treat the Western as ideological and, hence, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Penn, Bruce Willis, Christopher Frayling, Clint Eastwood, Dashiell Hammett, Drucilla Cornell, Eli Wallach, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, John Ford, John Wayne, Pasquale Marco Veltri, Paul Cooke, Peter Bondanelle, R. Philip Roy, Robert Altamann, Robert Altman, Robert Pippin, Ross Miller, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Leone, Sergio Sollima, Thomas E. Wartenberg, Thomas Weisser, Tim Dirks, Walter Benjamin, Walter Brennan, William Wellman, William Wyler, Wyatt Earp | 2 Comments

GUNSMOKE BONANZA: BALLOT BOX AT HIGH NOON

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Dave

What are westerns all about? As the gunsmoke clears from the main streets of those frontier towns, there is always a persistent political theme. … Where is the best place to hide a leaf? asked G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, … Continue reading →

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PINOCCHIO,PROFITS & PEE WEE: ''another NICE mess''

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Dave

At the G20 Summit in Toronto last week, the major accomplishment was the agreement on the ”Toronto Consensus”, which proclaimed in light of the Tsunami of fiscal stimulus hosed into a river of existing, and backlogged promises to spend, these … Continue reading →

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GOD-MAN SACHS and ALMIGHTY DEBT

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Dave

Its easy to think the God’s must be crazy. The lack of inaction, and sense of paralysis.The line always seems to go dead. In all likelihood, the Gods may have gotten involved with Goldman-Sachs; they went long on faith and … Continue reading →