Originally posted on Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival:
Years ago, we (yours truly) worked for a weekly newspaper. According to the Organizational Chart, we had three bosses: The Managing Editor, the Circulation Manager and the Supervisor. They were men with Experience. But none of them were regarded as our leader. Our actual leader was a woman…
Month: May 2020
Jean Simmons: Side-Stepping Burt Lancaster’s Shadow — Silver Screenings
Originally posted on Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival:
Elmer Gantry (1960) is Burt Lancaster‘s movie. He plays the title character, a charismatic but aimless hustler who becomes involved in a 1920’s American religious movement. He loves the energy of dynamic religion, but equates it to selling a product, like hawking ice cream. Lancaster is at his…
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