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January 17, 2007
TT: Notes from the road
- A reader writes, inspired by yesterday's list of the best Hollywood films of the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties:Strong list. I agree that Robin Hood trumps Casablanca as Michael Curtiz's great contribution, though I imagine you'll get arguments. I'd put Big Sleep over To Have and Have Not for Howard Hawks. You really ought to consider a Disney picture in that pantheon: Pinocchio, probably.
In fact, I thought about Disney, though I would have been more inclined to include Dumbo. What I really regret, though, is not having had room to include one of the short cartoons that rank as a genre high among the greatest achievements of Hollywood's Golden Age--but which one? Chuck Jones' "Bully for Bugs"? Tex Avery's "King Size Canary"? I feel another list coming on.
(Incidentally, OGIC, I wouldn't mind hearing from you about my little list.)
- I took the train to Washington, D.C., yesterday afternoon, dropped my bags off at the hotel where I'll be spending the week, had dinner with Laura Lippman at the excellent Café MoZU, then went with her to Arena Stage to see that company's revival of Michael Frayn's Noises Off (about which more in Friday's Wall Street Journal). A fairly busy day, especially since I worked straight through the train ride from New York to Washington. As for today, I'll be spending it writing in my hotel room--no art, alas--after which it's off to the Folger Elizabethan Theatre for a performance of King Lear by the Classical Theatre of Harlem, a company I've been wanting to see for some time now.
More as it happens, but now I need to go scare up some breakfast.
Posted January 17, 2007 9:25 AM
