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By Steve Vertlieb: This is a love story, as wondrous, tender, and affectionate as any that you’ll ever read. In the current vernacular, it might be referred to as a “bromance,” the non-romantic affection for one man by another. For, in all my life, I have never felt the adoration for another human soul…beyond my

By Steve Vertlieb: King Kong premiered ninety years ago on March 2, 1933, opening simultaneously at both the Radio City Music Hall and Roxy Theaters in New York City, followed by an "official" March 23,1933, opening at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. I guess that I first saw the film as a ten year old,

By Steve Vertlieb: Forgotten with the inevitable passage of time, as well as the entirely justified praise for Martin Scorsese's epic masterpiece, Killers of the Flower Moon, is the fact that the tragic true story of the wholesale slaughter of Osage Indians from 1921 to 1926 in Osage County, Oklahoma was documented nearly sixty-five years

By Steve Vertlieb: Forgotten with the inevitable passage of time, as well as the entirely justified praise for Martin Scorsese's epic masterpiece, Killers of the Flower Moon, is the fact that the tragic true story of the wholesale slaughter of Osage Indians from 1921 to 1926 in Osage County, Oklahoma was documented nearly sixty-five years