Posted on May 11, 2020 at 8:15 pm
“Scoob” is coming to your home this week and Warner Brothers wants to make it a party. On Friday, May 15 everyone is invited to the Twitter #ScoobMovieNight premiere event, hosted by the big dog himself, to celebrate the release of the brand new, fully animated, full-length action adventure feature “SCOOB!” on Premium Video on …
Posted on May 11, 2020 at 8:00 am
There’s a terrific history of Sesame Street by Jill Lepore in The New Yorker, based in part on a terrific new book called Sunny Days: the Children’s Television Revolution that Changed America by David Kamp. I appreciated the mention of my dad, who, as Kamp’s book reveals, played a critical role in obtaining the first …
Posted on May 11, 2020 at 8:00 am
Great piece by James Parker in The Atlantic about how actors use running styles to show character in movies. Well, most actors. Running in movies is always toward danger or away from it. No one in movies is ever just running. And like ballet dancers, the great runners in movies express character through movement, through …
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Posted on May 10, 2020 at 11:11 am
Some of the movies featured in my book, 50 Must-See Movies: Mothers. Claudia Before they went on to co-star in the luminous romance, “The Enchanted Cottage,” Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young played a young married couple in this sweet neglected gem based on the books by Rose Franken. Claudia and David love each other very …
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Posted on May 9, 2020 at 8:00 am
On May 9, 1961, my father, Newton Minow, delivered a speech that continues to inspire the conversation about media and was recently an answer on Jeopardy! He was President Kennedy’s new Chairman of the FCC, just 35 years old, and in his first major address he told the National Association of Broadcasters that while there …
