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Friday, March 12, 2010

Noteworthy

Corey Haim’s tragic life came to an end in what appears to be a drug overdose. (more...)

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland topped even Avatar last weekend, with $116.3 million of ticket sales, setting a new record for a 3-D movie release. (more...)

Fox News Channel remains the top-rated cable news network by far, drawing more viewers than CNN, MSNBC, and HLN combined, and is the third-highest-drawing cable network overall. Story here.

Magazines have a bright future on e-reader tablets, and they have nothing to fear from the new technology, says the editor of Wired. Full story here.

In a move indicating serious problems with Hulu's business model and advertising sales, Viacom has pulled its popular Comedy Central shows from Hulu. Full story here. (more...)

 

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McCarey’s ‘My Son John’

McCarey’s ‘My Son John’
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Leo McCarey's My Son John (1952) has been uniformly lambasted by mainstream critics since the day it was released—because the villains are Communists. Yet Martin Scorsese, a smart cineaste and certainly no rabid anticommunist, classed the film among his all-time favorites and wrote very sympathetically and understandingly about it. It's actually a highly interesting film, and well worth watching, very much in the style of McCarey's other non-comedy films of the 1930s and '40s, such as Love Affair and Going My Way. This clip (although of poor [Watch Video]




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