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A Sequel: The Best Film Ever Made About Politics
“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
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Trump’s Racism “is a tragedy in a man and a disaster in a president
by James M, Wall Say this about President Trump: His unfettered outbursts of vulgarity show no signs of being planned. They just erupt from the man as a revelation of who he is. In the film, The Best Man, Henry … Continue reading
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One Final Perilous Journey For Gertrude Bell
by James M. Wall The film, Queen of the Desert, begins with a distant image of a small group of travelers moving across a vast desert. Two sentences flash across the screen, setting the stage for what is to follow: … Continue reading
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“This Meddlesome Priest” Troubles Trump
by James M. Wall At 2:30 in the morning of June 17, 1972, forty five years ago this weekend, five men were arrested as they attempted to place wire taps in the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the … Continue reading
“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend. . . !”
by James M. Wall In the Prologue (below) to Shakespeare’s Henry V, The Chorus speaks: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act … Continue reading Continue reading
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Trump to Bibi and Abbas: “I’m With You Fellers”
by James M. Wall On Wednesday, President Donald Trump approached the waning days of his first month in office with what he hoped would be a significant foreign policy event, his first White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. … Continue reading
“A tragedy in a man, a disaster in a president”
by James M. Wall In the film, The Best Man, written by Gore Vidal, a candidate for president, Joe Cantwell (Cliff Robertson), is arguing with his more principled opponent, William Russell (Henry Fonda). Exasperated at one point, Cantwell says to Russell, “I … Continue reading
Reflections on Lincoln, Clinton and Trump
by James M. Wall Hillary Clinton is our final protective barrier against a massive Trump forest fire now raging across our land. She is the firewall standing between a fire which should have been stopped when it began June 15, 2015, as an … Continue reading Continue reading
Will “Greatness” Elude Yet Another President?
by James M. Wall Will McAlvoy (Jeff Daniels), (right), played a newscaster working for a fictional cable news network on The Newsroom, a program which ran on HBO (2012-2014). The writer of The Newsroom series is Aaron Sorkin, creator and lead author of the earlier television … Continue reading
2016 U.S. Politics Envisioned by Groucho Marx
by James M. Wall British critic Patrick McCray has described the Marx Brothers’ 1933 film, Duck Soup, as “an absurdist essay on politics and warfare. . . which can stand alongside (or even above) the works of Beckett and Ionesco.” Mrs. Teasdale … Continue reading
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