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Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment
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"[M]arvelous and compelling..." - John Milloy, author of The Plains Cree and A National Crime As the...
The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey
Nesecan Balkan, Erol M. Balkan and Ahmet F. Oncu
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Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into...
Witches' Brew (1980)
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A remake of 1944's Lon Chaney film Weird Woman (the first was Burn, Witch, Burn! in 1962) is more of...
Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated The Bad and the Beautiful (1953) in Movies
Mar 3, 2020
By 1952, Douglas was being cast regularly in higher profile productions with higher profile acting support. But the trend of being an ambitious and manipulating anti-hero was clinging on. As unscrupulous movie producer Jonathon he was never more unlikable, and rarely more unmissable, treating Lana Turner like his personal puppet to get to the top. The film won 5 Oscars and earned Douglas his 2nd nod. Many think this was his best shot at winning, such was the degree of sophistication and animal magnetism on display. He eventually lost out to Gary Cooper for High Noon by a handful of votes, but his reputation as a bankable A-lister was cemented forever, allowing him the weight to begin a secondary career as a producer.