Biography EssayAlthough Larry McMurtry has moved beyond the status of a minor regional writer, he is still closely identified with Texas. His first six novels and a collection of essays (In a Narrow G...
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"I remember laboring, around 1971, on a screen offering for John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda, a bittersweet, end-of-the-West Western, in which no scalps were taken and no victories were won,...
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LARRY McMURTRY is closely identified with Texas. All six of his novels and a collection of essays (In a Narrow Grave) reflect life in his native state. Born 3 June 1936 in Wichita Falls, he was educat...
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[This entry was updated by Sarah English (Meredith College) from the entry by John Gerlach (Cleveland State University) in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 137-150.]La...
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Larry McMurtry's work is marked by his imaginative connections with the American West. Drawn to place, McMurtry demonstrates in his work the mythic pattern of escape and return to his "blood's country...
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Here are some facts and trivia about the American Film Institute's new list of top-100 U.S. movies, with some comparisons to the institute's first such list in 1998:_ Out of the 43 newly eligible f...
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The American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6...
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HAVANA (Reuters) - There are no campaigns or TV ads
and only one party gets to field candidates in Sunday's local
elections in communist Cuba, the first without ailing Fidel
Castro in charge. Yet ...
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On June 17, the Independent Film Channel is planning to open its renovation of the old Waverly Theater in Greenwich Village, configured as a three-theater film complex, complete with a restaurant a...
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It's been 20 years since David Addison and Maddie Hayes set up shop together at the Blue Moon Detective Agency, doubled the entendres, tripled the word-per-minute pace of television dialogue and in...
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By the time I sat down for a studio screening of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, I was braced by all the advance hype from Venice and Toronto, as well as the local showbiz columns and media out...
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By the time I sat down for a studio screening of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, I was braced by all the advance hype from Venice and Toronto, as well as the local showbiz columns and media out...
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Facts about AFI's top-100 movies
