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Ever since I first saw it decades ago,  Dr Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, released by Warner Bros. in 1940 (with a screenplay that included John Huston among the talented writers), has struck me as one of the most memorable and noble films in Hollywood's inventory of biopics. The word that defines this film is uplifting. Edward G. Robinson, an unforgettable actor of immense range, is simply magnificent in his portrayal of Ehrlich. As the anonymous author of the retrospective appreciation we publish below correctly notes, he is virtually absorbed by the role: "Robinson is wonderful in Dr Ehrlic...

Forty years after her death, people still imitate Mae West’s voice: that slinky contralto drawl that hit each Brooklyn-inflected vowel like a cab driver leaning on his horn. The voice would be memorable even if she had by some wild mischance wound up playing dowagers and spinster aunts. Thank goodness this plush-figured goddess of stage and screen is instead in the pantheon of great American one-line comedians. “She always played herself” is wielded as a put-down for the stars of classic Hollywood, to say sure, they were memorable, but they weren’t real actors. It’s usually a bogus...

First Amendment News 281: Clearview face-recognition controversy continues — privacy v. free speech Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws. . . . Litigation against the start-up “has the potential of leading to a major decision about the interrelationship between privacy claims and First Amendment defenses in the 21st century,” Mr. Abrams said in a phone interview. He said the underlying legal questions could one day reach the Supreme Court. At the time of that post, Mr. Abrams told ...

Dec 10, 2020 Web Exclusive By Stephen Danay By the time he directed his first Western in 1973, Clint Eastwood had already starred in nine of them, becoming an international superstar in the mid-1960s with the Man With No Name Trilogy. This made him something of an expert in a changing genre, one that was forsaking the optimism and myth-making of the Hollywood Golden Age and embracing the violence and moral degradation that came with the Hollywood New Wave, the collapse of the Production Code and the ongoing charnel pit that was the war in Vietnam. High Plains Drifter isn’t an alleg...

Of the one that stands out from a house to be saudi aramco due to the sheer size of the i p o itself is going to follow the complete around two trillion dollars so the sheer size of it is those make it the most interesting for me also the fact that there has been questions about whether it will float the oil price of course is a big influence on what the price will be whether they can do more push ahead with it's clearly been an influential people reason behind the production code that we've seen over the past couple of years so i think that's going to be very interesting want to watch through...