Trying to pin down the definitive characteristics of “noir” is a tiresome game.
June 23rd, 2011
Mamoulian, perhaps more than anyone else, defined the original racial landscape that became the setting for Porgy and Bess.
February 28th, 2012
On poetry and riot.
December 2nd, 2011
"Yes," said a Frenchman. "We have this silly theory in France that our authors should be able to eat."
August 6th, 2011
AFTER DARK ON OCTOBER 15, 2011, as the worldwide "United For Global Change" march drew to a close in Spain, a group of demonstrators held an assembly.
May 19th, 2012
Just as the attacks themselves had little to do with America, so did America play little role in the defeat of al-Qa'ida's ideology.
January 9th, 2012
On Sunday, French voters will go to the polls to decide whether Sarkozy, the incumbent, or François Hollande, the poll favorite, will be president.
May 4th, 2012
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
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