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Defeat Future Trumps: Teach Humor
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Nov 16, 2016
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” —Mark Twain When Trump clinched the nomination in Indiana, I felt betrayed not by my fellow citizens, but by my art. I teach humor, write humor, believe in humor. And I couldn’t deny it: Trump’s skill with a joke was exactly read more
Defeat Future Trumps: Teach Humor
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Nov 16, 2016
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” —Mark Twain When Trump clinched the nomination in Indiana, I felt betrayed not by my fellow citizens, but by my art. I teach humor, write humor, believe in humor. And I couldn’t deny it: Trump’s skill with a joke was exactly read more
The Lure of the Selfish Genius
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Oct 19, 2016
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) presents that classic question: what are you willing to put up with, to be under the direction of a genius? Whiplash (2014) did the same just a couple years ago, conductor Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) compelling his protégé drummer to dangerous extremes for his art. The read more
The Lure of the Selfish Genius
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Oct 19, 2016
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) presents that classic question: what are you willing to put up with, to be under the direction of a genius? Whiplash (2014) did the same just a couple years ago, conductor Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) compelling his protégé drummer to dangerous extremes for his art. The read more
Meg Ryan’s Fate Foretold in Joe Versus the Volcano
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Oct 1, 2016
Meg Ryan has had a peculiar career: America’s darling after When Harry Met Sally (1989), she has struggled to avoid typecasting as the perky cute girl ever since, and largely failed, settling for a saccharine portrayal in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and veering into downright parody of her p read more
Meg Ryan’s Fate Foretold in Joe Versus the Volcano
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Oct 1, 2016
Meg Ryan has had a peculiar career: America’s darling after When Harry Met Sally (1989), she has struggled to avoid typecasting as the perky cute girl ever since, and largely failed, settling for a saccharine portrayal in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and veering into downright parody of her p read more
In Defense of Netflix: Jessica Jones & OITNB
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Aug 18, 2016
I’ve been flirting with dumping Netflix for some time: That terrible customer service debacle a few years back. The fact that despite their extensive classic movie DVD library, their classic movie streaming choices are tired, and frequently movie-of-the-week bad. The prices I have to pay to wa read more
In Defense of Netflix: Jessica Jones & OITNB
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Aug 18, 2016
I’ve been flirting with dumping Netflix for some time: That terrible customer service debacle a few years back. The fact that despite their extensive classic movie DVD library, their classic movie streaming choices are tired, and frequently movie-of-the-week bad. The prices I have to pay to wa read more
Mae West’s Lessons for Groundbreakers
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Aug 7, 2016
A woman approaches a building, greets men outside, enters. A common occurrence. But when that walk is Mae West’s, the arrival of Maudie into Night after Night is transgressive. West’s entrance into film guaranteed the influence she’d already build on the stage would reverberate far beyond the read more
Mae West’s Lessons for Groundbreakers
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Aug 7, 2016
A woman approaches a building, greets men outside, enters. A common occurrence. But when that walk is Mae West’s, the arrival of Maudie into Night after Night is transgressive. West’s entrance into film guaranteed the influence she’d already built on the stage would reverberate far beyond the read more
The Good Stuff: What’s to Love about Fights in Film
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jul 8, 2016
Talented poet and screenwriter, martial artist, and classics enthusiast Brian Wilkins agreed to guest post for me as part of The Sword and Sandal blogathon, hosted by Moon in Gemini. Check out his wonderful tribute to fight scenes below. Sometime in 1998, I sit on the floor in my living room watchi read more
The Good Stuff: What’s to Love about Fights in Film
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jul 8, 2016
Talented poet and screenwriter, martial artist, and classics enthusiast Brian Wilkins agreed to guest post for me as part of The Sword and Sandal blogathon, hosted by Moon in Gemini. Check out his wonderful tribute to fight scenes below. Sometime in 1998, I sit on the floor in my living r read more
Sympathetic Liars: The Book of Mormon & Beat the Devil
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jun 26, 2016
Kooky. Bizarre. Silly. Odd. Original. It’s difficult to sum up the strange charm of Beat the Devil (1953), that Truman Capote-penned film* that fits no genre and makes no sense. You have the feeling as you watch that Capote must have been tripping, but his quirky personality, not to mention t read more
Sympathetic Liars: The Book of Mormon & Beat the Devil
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jun 26, 2016
Kooky. Bizarre. Silly. Odd. Original. It’s difficult to sum up the strange charm of Beat the Devil (1953), that Truman Capote-penned film* that fits no genre and makes no sense. You have the feeling as you watch that Capote must have been tripping, but his quirky personality, not to mention t read more
The Dark Humor of High Noon (1952)
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jun 12, 2016
**Contains spoilers** When I watched High Noon many years ago, I was struck by its pacing, its intensity, its seriousness. This time, I kept laughing. There’s something comic about watching Marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) aimlessly tread around the town, waiting for someone, anyone to assist read more
The Dark Humor of High Noon (1952)
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jun 12, 2016
**Contains spoilers** When I watched High Noon many years ago, I was struck by its pacing, its intensity, its seriousness. This time, I kept laughing. There’s something comic about watching Marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) aimlessly tread around the town, waiting for someone, anyone to assist read more
The Klutziest Bonnie & Clyde Ever: Gun Crazy (1950)
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jun 6, 2016
**Only very minor, preliminary spoilers here** Gun Crazy begins with a boy getting caught for stealing a gun because he trips. The kid, Barton Tare, has a mysterious attraction to guns he can neither explain nor control. Others try to defend him, given that he has no desire to harm and isn’t read more
The Klutziest Bonnie & Clyde Ever: Gun Crazy (1950)
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jun 6, 2016
**Only very minor, preliminary spoilers here** Gun Crazy begins with a boy getting caught for stealing a gun because he trips. The kid, Barton Tare, has a mysterious attraction to guns he can neither explain nor control. Others try to defend him, given that he has no desire to harm and isn’t read more
Mae West’s Theme Show: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on May 30, 2016
Sexually adventurous, unapologetic, averse to marriage, in control, attractive to all men–and in her 40s. Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) is the kind of character feminists have despaired of seeing onscreen, and yet there she is, captivating her Australian viewers, and now American ones, who have read more
Mae West’s Theme Show: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on May 30, 2016
Sexually adventurous, unapologetic, averse to marriage, in control, attractive to all men–and in her 40s. Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) is the kind of character feminists have despaired of seeing onscreen, and yet there she is, captivating her Australian viewers, and now American ones, who have read more