The Ebert Club would like to share the following Public domain film while inviting non-members to join the Club and see what the future holds..."It takes a special weird genius to be voted the Worst Director of All Time, a…
One of the chapters in my memoir is devoted to Billy Baxter, a friend of a lifetime. Some readers think the story is too good to be true. Not so. Billy is a great original. A performance artist. His son…
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Spectacular Science: The Lifecycle of a Mushroom from Thomas Beg on Vimeo. Visit here for the story of the video.
Link thanks to Jana J. Monji.
The story originally appeared in The New Yorker
Nino Rota by Fellini It was the middle of the night in Artena, Italy, a small hill village outside of Rome. Franco Zeffirelli was preparing to shoot the balcony scene of his "Romeo and Juliet." In the gardens below an…
When I came to The Sun-Times in 1966, the legend was still fresh in memory: How when John F. Kennedy was shot, Bill Mauldin went directly to his easel and produced a drawing that was reproduced around the world. The…
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