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Ball of Fire
Film Review December 30, 2005
by Louis Black
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)...
by Louis Black
"...Directed by: Howard Hawks. Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck and Dana Andrews..."
Wings
Film Review January 22, 2002
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: This 1927 movie was the winner of the first Academy Award for best picture. Wings was also filmed partially on location in San Antonio. The silent classic will be presented...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Wellman. Starring: Gary Cooper, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Arlen, Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Clara Bow..."
Air Force One
Film Review July 25, 1997
by Marc Savlov
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,... 
by Marc Savlov
"...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..."
JFK
Film Review December 27, 1991
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Let's get one thing clear right from the start: Oliver Stone makes agitprop -- not film dramas, not documentaries. He makes heartfelt, heart stirring, heart pumping treatises which, if they... 
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...This is where the Capraesque elements of JFK come in handy. Costner is an ideal James Stewart or Gary Cooper Everyman, square-jawed and driven by truth, lending a halo to DA Jim Garrison that doesn't exist in his real-life counterpart..."
That Thing They Do
Screens Story May 22, 2009
by Raoul Hernandez
"...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
by Kimberley Jones
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
by Kimberley Jones
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
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
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
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: A comedy spoof of inspirational sports films.
by Josh Rosenblatt
"...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
by Marc Savlov
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.
by Marc Savlov
"...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
by Steve Uhler
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
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
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
by Anne S. Lewis
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
by Louis Black
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..."
After a Fashion
Columns December 16, 2005
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
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..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review June 24, 2005
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Rarely did he singe the big screen with his craft, yet his dimpled impassivity was ready-made for audience personification
"...The Gary Cooper Collection..."
After a Fashion
Columns February 11, 2005
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Stephen weighs in on city planning issues ... at least
ones regarding how certain things look. Other than
that, he drops a lot of names and tells you where to
go. For Valentine's Day, silly.
"...12, the most wonderful, amazing, stylish, and bizarre event of the year comes around: the Art Erotica auction and dance party benefiting the Austin AIDS Emergency Fund for AIDS Services of Austin from 9pm-1am. It is produced by Gary Cooper, Richard Hartgrove, and the Octopus Club, whose recent Octo Tea Dance at the Oasis raised $46,155 for the fund..."
After a Fashion
Columns November 19, 2004
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Stephen does Dallas … No, wait, we mean
Houston. Stephen does Houston. In a big way. With
big names. At the Icon. Don't you wish you were this
fabulous? Oh, and he does the State Board of
Education, too. Don't they wish?
"...These 90 minutes of comedic anarchy have the pace of a demented Laugh-In episode but with a script and characters that take you on a bumpy ride into hysteria. Don't miss it.MORE OUTI wasn't about to miss the fundraiser for the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas at the glorious home of Gary Cooper and Richard Hartgrove..."
After a Fashion
Columns November 5, 2004
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Whoa! Your Style Avatar is older than dirt! Oops, we mean, "just celebrated another b-day!" Come celebrate within.
"...The figure 10 came and went very quickly as the plans became an all-out cocktail party for 80 of my very best friends -- divas Margaret Moser, Hedda Layne, Gail Chovan, Miss Kitty, Maristella Ostrewich, Diane Nicholas, Amy Prince, Amy Weaver, Kat Jones, Cat Swanson, Jennifer Braham, Brandi Cowley, Brittney Cowley, Mary Sledd, Marjorie Baumgarten, Christy Butler, Summer Lawson, Jean Scheidnes, and a panoply of other beauties. Or it may have been a Night of a Thousand He-vas, featuring the dramatic likes of Nak Armstrong, Mark Ashby, Mark Sullivan, Lance Morgan, Alfred Robinson, Werner Campbell, Evan Voyles, Gary Cooper, Richard Hargrave, Neil Diaz, Steven Aichlmayr, John Lohse, Tomer Gendler, Kurt Hernandez, Neil Kaiser, Todd Wolfson, Raoul Hernandez, Chris Gray, Stephen Arevalos, and a host of other boys..."
The Benda Mask
Screens Story October 22, 2004
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Untold secrets of Jean Arthur
"...That goes double for The Plainsman (1937), Cecil B. DeMille's reteaming of Deeds' Arthur and Gary Cooper..."
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