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TT: Notes from the road

January 17, 2007 by Terry Teachout

– 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 Caf

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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

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Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

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Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

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My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

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