Pride and Prejudice: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow Graham Daseler March 2012 Book Reviews Not long after joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1968, Pauline Kael wrote a review of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969), the popular western starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford...
Print the Legend – Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood’s Legendary Director by Marilyn Ann Moss Graham Daseler December 2011 Book Reviews One night, in the autumn of 1929, Raoul Walsh was driving along a desolate highway in the Utah desert, scouting locations for his next movie. Suddenly, a jackrabbit skittered across the road. Hurtled into the a...
Steven Spielberg: A Biography second edition by Joseph McBride Peter Tonguette June 2011 Book Reviews By 1997, when the first edition of Joseph McBride’s Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published, its author’s previous subjects included Orson Welles, John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Frank Capra. To add Steven Spi...