Word: classical
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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This is the stuff of classic (not to say old-hat) family drama, and Carlino makes it work primarily by putting Duvall and O'Keefe in front of the camera as father and son and letting them have at each other, with Danner, the long-suffering mother and wife, as occasional reluctant referee. Since all three are tremendous, it comes off beautifully. Duvall, in a full-voiced extension of his Kilgore character in Apocolypse Now, is one of the recent movies' great eccentrics, and O'Keefe foils him by showing more range than an actor his age deserves to have...
...tour and third album, "but what I do is write songs and sing them." Nonetheless, inside that denim-jacketed heart, behind those covertly smiling eyes and that radical pug nose, one senses big ambition. Alive on Arrival, his heel-kicking 1978 debut, moved zealous writers to compare Forbert with classic heartland American music-makers the likes of Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers. Then came Jackrabbit Slim, the 1979 follow-up, a helping of string and chorus-sweetened love songs, and the critics scooped their superlatives back again...
Only one mind could have produced these plots: that of Ray Bradbury, author of the classic Martian Chronicles and the gloomily prophetic Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury has long been considered one of the great long-distance runners of fantasy and science fiction. But he is also a sprinter; his poignant and ironic short stories have been anthologized for more than 30 years. Bradbury's latest book is a highly personal selection of those works: Martian adventures, nostalgic reminiscences about small-town Midwestern life in the '20s and '30s, and several evocative anecdotes about Ireland. But its best pieces...
...teen-ager in Waukegan, Ill. But it was not until François Truffaut filmed Fahrenheit 451 in 1966 that he was widely saluted as one of the masters of the genre. "My life has been full of myths," says Bradbury, whose fiction often suggests an amalgam of the classic fables, Frank Baum's Oz books and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio...
...myths continue to animate his fiction. Bradbury's work may vary with his mood, ranging from bleak to bright. But his stories rarely fail to reinforce a classic piece of American mythology: that a boy from a small Midwestern town can make it in America-without becoming an adult...