Page 2 - Michael Katakis News Today

The long history of Ken Burns documentaries ranges from places to people to entire wars. His latest collaboration with Lynn Novick, "Hemingway," falls in that middle category, portraying Ernest Hemingway's war-spanning, tumultuous life over six hours, which might not qualify as Hemingway-esque brevity, but proves fascinating nevertheless.

PBS In the 1920s, Zelda Fitzgerald said of Ernest Hemingway, “Nobody is as male as all that.” Fitzgerald saw right through the hypermasculine persona Hemingway cultivated: the gun-toting, hard-drinking, deep sea-fishing, big game-hunting, bullfighting, street-brawling, womanizing facade that lingers to this day. What this ossified mythology obscures is the real Hemingway, who we see illuminated from cradle to grave in Hemingway, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new three-part documentary, ai...

Courtesy of Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston / PBS Mon., Apr. 5–Wed., Apr. 7 at 8pm on WKAR-HD 23.1 & STREAMING |  Hemingway, a three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography—a life lived at the ultimately treacherous ne...

PBS’ Hemingway is an immersive portrait of the author’s brilliance and cruelty Roxana Hadadi Ernest Hemingway When modern readers lambast the American literary canon, they’re probably complaining at least partially about Ernest Hemingway. The Hemingway clichés are easy to rattle off: a thrill seeker who fetishized bullfighting and big-game hunting to prove his manliness; a womanizer who was always on the lookout for his next wife; a wartime bystander who co-opted the viol...

A fresh look at Papa: New Ken Burns documentary explores the different sides of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway on the fishing boat “Anita,” circa 1929. A new documentary by Ken Burns describes him as “an intensely American writer.” Image courtesy Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum/PBS Hemingway with his fourth wife, Mary Welsh, on their boat. Image courtesy of A.E. Hotchner/PBS Ernest Hemingway recovering from wounds from artill...