Going back to last night's discussion of Mervyn LeRoy's excellent Three on a Match, let's revisit other of his films from 1932, Big City Blues. This is less successful. It's more of a one act bit than a fully fleshed out movie. A young yokel...
Author: Erik Loomis
Sometimes I wonder about the academic pieces that get attention from larger news sources. Usually this is "economists or political scientists discover something that historians have written about for 25.
The Trump administration's attacks on clean energy are the most prominent part of his hatred of environmentalism. Given that nostalgia is the core of Trumpism and that his version of.
The saddest words in the English language are "I don't read fiction." And yet, even here at LGM. commenters talk about how they don't read anymore. That's horrible. Social media is terrible. The internet should never have been invented. We would all be better off....
You can bet on anything these days. And if you are an ICE agent, you can bet on when immigrants placed into your concentration camps will commit suicide: Staff at.
I don't have a good answer to this question but there are lots of smart people working it out. Richard Yeselson and Trip Ventruella are in The New Republic to.
This is the grave of Abe Beame. Born in 1906 in London, Abraham Birnbaum grew up a Jewish immigrant family from Poland which changed its name to Beame at some point. It wasn't quite so common for fleeing Jewish families to find political and economic...
In the immediate years after the talkie era began, Mervyn LeRoy was about as big as it got as a director. He was just pushing out content through the early.
Bo Gritz is dead. One of the largely forgotten figures of the late 20th century, Gritz played a critical role in the development of the paranoid, conspiracy theory driven reality.
Brian Beutler urges the Colorado legislature to impeach Jared Polis: This probably sounds drastic, but I think Colorado Democrats may have to impeach and remove their governor, Jared Polis, who is also a Democrat. They should, at the very least, raise the prospect that they...
This is the grave of Dennis Hopper. Dennis Hopper....OK, this is a lot. Born in 1936 in Dodge City, Kansas, Hopper grew up without anything too special in terms of.
This is the grave of Charles Bent. Born in 1799 in Charleston, now West Virginia, Bent was the son of a judge named Silas Bent. The family moved to Missouri.