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Redboy Thirteen
Film Review  November 6, 1998
Description: Unlike anything you've seen and yet eerily familiar, Austinite van Bavel's paean to childhood dreamtime and Ian Flemming-style Cold War theatrics is a minor masterpiece of the surreal, taking viewers...

"...Joe's rucksack while mucking about in their parents' backyard. Roy-Brown (looking and acting like a very young Gary Cooper) plays Redboy 13, an adolescent covert-ops agent for the CYA..."

Air Force One
Film Review  July 25, 1997
Description: Another day, another summer blockbuster. Really, my ears are ringing and my head hurts and isn't it about time for a musical? Perhaps not. Perhaps just one more big shoot-'em-up,...

"...It's all grounded, however, in Ford's gritted-teeth performance as President Marshall. Ford is the closest thing to Gary Cooper we have these days, and he pulls it all off without making it (or us, by association) look ridiculous..."

One Nation Under God
Film Review  May 6, 1994
Description: “Curing” homosexuality is the mission of Exodus International, a Christian reparative therapy organization profiled in the documentary One Nation Under God. Believing that homosexual activity is sinful and that a...

"...All in all, Exodus International has a high attrition rate. Also documented are two of the group's original co-founders, Michael Bussee and Gary Cooper..."

The Fugitive
Film Review  August 6, 1993
Description: One of the first in what appears to be a yearlong spate of motion pictures based on old TV shows (coming soon to a multiplex near you: The Flintstones, The...

"...Director Davis valiantly tries to keep the breakneck, harried pace of an actual flight going throughout, and only occasionally drops the ball (the film's convoluted conspiracy ending is the first example to beat me about the face and neck just now -- others will crop up after deadline, I'm sure). Ford may be the closest thing we have these days to a Gary Cooper, but really, where's David Janssen when we really need him?..."

In Print
Screens Story  January 8, 2010
Description: David Thomson brings both film scholarship and fandom to these slim summaries of stars Bette Davis, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, and Ingrid Bergman

"...Ingrid Bergman (Great Stars) Humphrey Bogart (Great Stars) Gary Cooper (Great Stars) Bette Davis (Great Stars)by David Thomson Faber and Faber Inc., $14 each (paper)..."

Cabin Fever DVDs: Lars Nilsen
Screens Blog  January 6, 2010
Description: Film rental picks for a frigid forecast

"...5.) Ball of Fire "… a great Howard Hawks movie with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. I like the title right now, of course, but also Miss Stanwyck is a heat source of her own in this movie."..."

Letters at 3AM: My Top 10 of All Top 10s
Columns  January 1, 2010
Description: A list of the Top 10 cultural artifacts that have shaped my life

"...Westerns rated my serious attention. Wayne, Gary Cooper, Randolph Scott..."

After a Fashion
Columns  December 18, 2009
Description: Your Style Avatar throws it down, then sleeps it off. It's the holiday season.

"...First off, we had to say goodbye to Robert Brown and Dennis Karbach, who are effectively leaving Austin, but we know they'll be back to see us. The party was thrown by Richard Hartgrove and Gary Cooper – and of course, it was wonderful..."

That Thing They Do
Screens Story  May 22, 2009

"...A cynical reporter masquerading as the "world's sweetest ingénue" to get an exclusive on Gary Cooper's titular "corn-fed bohunk" of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, a newly befallen millionaire, Arthur's Babe Bennett opens with a yo-yo and closes in black velvet across a table..."

DVD Watch
Screens Review  January 9, 2009
Description: Hepburn and Astaire say, 'Bonjours, Paris!' in the still-spry Funny Face

"...But take a closer look at the still-spry Funny Face: Not once does she break character when Fred Astaire – at 58, fully 30 years her senior – pitches woo to her sunny, funny face. Hepburn co-starred with the greats of Hollywood's golden age – Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant – but she typically got at them when they were way past their prime..."

Being Bad Never Looked So Good
Screens Story  January 9, 2009
Description: Austin Public Library tackles Tough Guys and Feisty Femmes in a new film series. And it's free!

"...That's the same Billy Wilder who co-scripted Ball of Fire, which starred the incomparable Barbara Stanwyck, three years before she was a bad-news blonde in Double Indemnity. In Ball of Fire, she plays Sugarpuss O'Shea, a jive-talking nightclub singer who hides out with a group of unsuspecting academics, led by Gary Cooper..."

After a Fashion
Columns  March 28, 2008
Description: It's easy to blush around hunky Cliff Redd

"...IN THE REDD I'd met him before at a party at Gary Cooper and Richard Hartgrove's house. I had so much fun with him, I mentioned him in my next column but didn't see him again for a long time..."

The Comebacks
Film Review  October 26, 2007
Description: A comedy spoof of inspirational sports films.

"...It’s too bad the filmmakers didn’t have a longer view of film history, though; maybe their jokes would have been more interesting if they’d been aimed at, say, Somebody Up There Likes Me or The Pride of the Yankees. They could have had Gary Cooper giving his famous farewell address at Yankee Stadium – “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth” – and then dropped a bowling ball on his crotch..."

30 Days of Night
Film Review  October 19, 2007
Description: This film's high-concept stroke of genius lies not with its vampire clan but with the setting: a tiny Alaskan hamlet where nightfall indeed lasts all month.

"...That's a smart reversal of the classic vampire's casket trope, bringing to mind both Stephen King's Salem's Lot and Fred Zinnemann's High Noon. Hartnett is stoically adequate here, but he's no Gary Cooper, and his wounded alpha-male relationship with Stella comes off as a less-nuanced version of Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's pseudo-couple in The Abyss..."

DVD Watch
Screens Review  June 16, 2006
Description: John Wayne has been called many things, but "beautiful" isn't often one of them

"...(Wayne had already labored as a B-movie actor for 10 years, appearing in no fewer than 80 films by the time he became an A-list star with Stagecoach.) When Ford decided to film a short story called "Stage to Lordsburg," he resolved to cast the young would-be star in the pivotal role of the Ringo Kid. The studio and producers lobbied for Gary Cooper, but Ford was adamant, and rightly so..."

After a Fashion
Columns  March 3, 2006
Description: Stephen acknowledges how recherché it would be for him to review his own show and then proceeds to do so

"...And it's simply not fair, when I so richly deserve that kind of life. But I adore Robert and Dennis so much that I plan on going there as often as possible to pretend that I am the mistress of that maison! (I can imagine myself in a feather-trimmed peignoir while addressing the butler on the intercom, "James, bring another 811 to me on 4, please.") Cliff Redd attended with me (could I ever ask for a more attentive or more presentable escort?), and we were joined by Gary Cooper (looking younger than springtime these days) and Richard Hartgrove, who brought the world famous violist John Largess of the Miró Quartet with them..."

Where There's Smoke, There's a 'Vérité-Enhanced' Legacy
Screens Story  February 10, 2006
Description: The Texas Documentary Tour: Ross McElwee's 'Bright Leaves'

"...While McElwee had known that he wanted to make a film about tobacco, he also knew that he didn't "want to make the standard film that's been made before where the tobacco industry and the farmers are excoriated for what they do – or a health film about how bad smoking is for us – I think most of us know that already." When he learned from a film-buff cousin that a 1950 film called Bright Leaf, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, might have been about the North Carolina tobacco rivalry between his great-grandfather and Duke, McElwee packed his camera and took off. He had the starting point – but only just that – he needed to be off and running back home to Carolina for another seat-of-the-pants cinematic exploration...."

New Year, Old Films
Screens Story  December 30, 2005
Description: Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...Ball of Fire (1941; on DVD: HBO Home Video): Barbara Stanwyck is a streetwise nightclub singer/dancer who, on the run from gangsters, ends up hiding out in the home of eight uptight, very proper professors (led by Gary Cooper) working on an encyclopedia. They are thrilled with her, begging her to stick around to help them define "slang." Written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett..."

Ball of Fire
Film Review  December 30, 2005
Description: Barbara Stanwyck is a streetwise nightclub singer/dancer who, on the run from gangsters, ends up hiding out in the home of eight uptight, very proper professors (led by Gary Cooper)...

"...Directed by: Howard Hawks. Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck and Dana Andrews..."

After a Fashion
Columns  December 16, 2005
Description: Scrambling to take care of that Secret Santa on your list? Your Style Avatar has the perfect solution!

"...PARTY POOP The birthday party thrown for philanthropist Gary Cooper by Richard Hartgrove, his devoted partner of 22 years, was held at the spectacular home of a high-ranking Republican official (honestly, the nicest Republican I've ever met, though his name will remain my little secret), and was one of the most beautiful parties I've ever been to. The home itself, with a dazzlingly brilliant color scheme by Marc Harmon (www.marcharmon.com) and eye-popping art by Sergio Rodriguez (www.sergiorodriguezgallery.com), drips with pure style..."

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