By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) “It’s impossible to describe what it feels like to be handed the same award that was given to Paddy Chayefsky thirty-five years ago, for another movie with Network in the title…The commoditization of the news and the devaluating of the truth are just a part of our way […]
By Stuart Nulman Forty years ago, the late comedian Flip Wilson was one of the most popular entertainers on television. His “Flip Wilson Show” on NBC was a Thursday night viewing habit for millions of Americans, and gave such ratings titans as “All in the Family” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.” a run for their […]
“All the films in this book share an air of disreputability.” -Charles Taylor (from Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You) I do not often look back to the ‘80’s with fondness; that decade was most unkind to me. But the few bright memories I do retain usually have to do with the […]
