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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) created a video about The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee in TV
Dec 3, 2017
The Most of Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron's brilliantly funny writing paved the way for female wits like Lena Dunham and Tina Fey....
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Nora Ephron: Everything is Copy
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Nora Ephron famously claimed that she wrote about every thought that ever crossed her mind, from her...
Awix (3310 KP) rated All the President's Men (1976) in Movies
Jan 24, 2021
Superior movie that still sets the gold standard for recent-fact-based-drama and heroic-journalists-investigate-corruption movies. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are assigned to what looks like just a weird break-in at the Watergate offices of the Democratic party, but discover a trail that ultimately incriminates some very big names indeed.
Proof that you can make a gripping thriller without actually including a single car chase or fist-fight; much of the film is people on the telephone making notes, but it's still a captivating story. Solid performances, decent structure, perhaps lacks a big climax, but you can see its influence on many other acclaimed films since (The Post and Spotlight are cut from the same cloth, and in the former case features some of the same figures). And yet Rocky still won the Oscar. Conspiracy!!!
Proof that you can make a gripping thriller without actually including a single car chase or fist-fight; much of the film is people on the telephone making notes, but it's still a captivating story. Solid performances, decent structure, perhaps lacks a big climax, but you can see its influence on many other acclaimed films since (The Post and Spotlight are cut from the same cloth, and in the former case features some of the same figures). And yet Rocky still won the Oscar. Conspiracy!!!
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
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The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post...