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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Film Review April 13, 2007
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Absurdist non sequiturs and deadpan pauses emanate from an animated milkshake, a box of french fries, and a ball of ground beef. 
by Josh Rosenblatt
"...Directed by: Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis. Count it as one of the great Hollywood mysteries – right up there with the death of Natalie Wood and the career of Vin Diesel – that we’ve had to wait this long for a movie starring a talking milkshake, a floating box of french fries, and a ball of ground beef..."
Rebel Without a Cause
Film Review July 28, 1995
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: If you haven't ever seen this Nicholas Ray/James Dean classic in widescreen … trust me, you've never really seen it. It's been 40 years since James Dean essayed his quintessential role in as a troubled American teen and, along with co-stars Wood and Mineo, established an iconography of adolescence whose potency extends into the present. Ray, who told stories that were "bigger than life" and pulsing with "hot blood," was one of the most dynamic directors of the American screen and his capacity to tell a widescreen story was as articulate as his ability to pinpoint an individual stuck "in a lonely place."
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Nicholas Ray. Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Jim Backus..."
The Searchers
Film Review October 1, 1993
by Louis Black
Description: Regarded by many as Ford's masterpiece and one of the great films of all time, this John Wayne Western is a meditation on survival, the loss of faith, and the death of heroes.
by Louis Black
"...Directed by: John Ford. Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Henry Brandon, Pat Wayne and Harry Carey Jr..."
Page Two: Winning the West
Columns June 12, 2009
by Louis Black
Description: Cowboys, Indians, and the irresolvable contradictions between freedom and order
"..."How can I hate John Wayne upholding Goldwater and yet love him tenderly when he sweeps Natalie Wood into his arms in the last reel of The Searchers?" – Jean-Luc Godard..."
The West Side of Shakespeare
Screens Blog August 19, 2008
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Why West Side Story wins
"...Now normally I'm no big fan of musicals, nor am I a big fan of films with white people pancaked to look Puerto Rican, or overdubbed with 60's go-to gal Marni Nixon... but come on, it's Natalie Wood..."
Dreamsville
Music Story November 30, 2007
by Margaret Moser
Description: 16 Magazine and the birth of music journalism
"...16 Magazine's first issue resembles one of those 1950s Hollywood scandal sheets minus the dirt. Plenty of Elvis coverage, snaps of Hollywood stars like Natalie Wood and Debra Paget, a quiz asking "Are Your Parents Delinquent?" and a feature on the Million Dollar Quartet..."
I Love Tab
The Gay Place Blog June 1, 2007
by Kate X Messer
Description: Tab is coming to Austin!
"...Yet in this autobiography, he manages a gracious take on the glamorous life. He issues a dignified drubbing to the Hollywood that took him to the matinee mountaintop, then kicked him in the nuts.
Hunter reserves his most scathing rapier for those most deserving, like weaselly manager Henry Willson, whose eyes he describes as "a pair of piss holes in the snow." His story is also tender, as he open-heartedly takes on the father he never knew, the stern but devoted mother who gave him "protection more than affection," and his awkward struggles and close friendships with studio-imposed beards like teen idols Tuesday Weld, Natalie Wood, and Debbie Reynolds..."
A Life of His Own
Screens Story June 1, 2007
by Marc Savlov
Description: Diving right in with Tab Hunter
"...He dug John Waters before you did. He dated Natalie Wood..."
Page Two: We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
Columns November 24, 2006
by Louis Black
Description: Free speech: Do we have to spell it out for you? Plus, a
farewell to a great American filmmaker.
"..."How can I hate John Wayne upholding [Barry] Goldwater and yet love him tenderly when abruptly he takes Natalie Wood into his arms in the last reel of The Searchers?" – Jean-Luc Godard..."
Leave Her to Heaven: Iconically Gene Tierney
Screens Story October 6, 2006
by Raoul Hernandez
"...Cast: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Natalie Wood..."
Readings
Books Review January 13, 2006
by Kate X Messer
Description: 'Better to get it from the horse's mouth, I decided, and not from some horse's ass'
"...Hunter reserves his most scathing rapier for those most deserving, like weasely manager Henry Willson, whose eyes he describes as "a pair of piss holes in the snow." His story is also tender, as he open-heartedly takes on the father he never knew, the stern but devoted mother who gave him "protection more than affection," and his awkward struggles and close friendships with studio-imposed beards like teen idols Tuesday Weld, Natalie Wood, and Debbie Reynolds. He lets us see him "swimming in the Hollywood fishbowl" alongside lover Tony Perkins; a career resurrection thanks to John Waters' Polyester and his favorite co-star, Divine; and his current life with producer "Baby Mogul" Allan Glaser...."
Academy Award-Nominated Short Films 2004
Film Review April 1, 2005
by Marc Savlov
Description: A program of eight short films nominated for live-action and animated Academy Awards in 2004. 
by Marc Savlov
"..."Two Cars, One Night," from New Zealand’s Taika Waititi, is a perfectly pitched story of three Maori children left to their own devices when their parents hit a local bar. By turns tentative, boisterous, and touching, a 9-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl become friends with a flirtatious feint-and-parry that rivals James Dean and Natalie Wood’s youthful bonhomie in Rebel Without a Cause..."
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Music Story March 12, 2004
Description: Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only
"...[DARYL]Midnight, Vibe Dallas New Wave quintet [DARYL]'s new Idol EP Uneven Surfaces helps solve the longstanding mystery surrounding the fate of Bono's white flag. Though they'd rather write about Natalie Wood than Northern Ireland, Dylan Silver's vocals are as expansively earnest as War, his bandmates attacking their instruments with the same kind of martial drive..."
Exhibitionism
Arts Review December 14, 2001
by Robert Faires
Description: Reeling frenetically from song to show-biz anecdote to soap dialogue and back, like Judy Garland on a speed jag, with its star channeling everyone from Bette Davis and Phyllis Diller to Ethel Merman and Joan Crawford, Lypsinka! The Boxed Set is a hoot, a joyride through a neighborhood of tacky mansions haunted by grande dames of outsized egos and overwrought emotions.
"...But when you watch Lypsinka, say, belting a glitzy version of "I've Got to Be Me" or rattling off one of Norma Desmond's screeds from Sunset Blvd., there is that same weird sense that you get in The Exorcist of looking at someone speak and knowing that the voice you're hearing isn't coming from that person, yet you're still accepting the connection between it and the "speaker." You hear this vintage Vegas stage patter or histrionic blast from some creaky Hollywood sudser and you get what it is, you may even recognize the bit or the voice delivering it -- in a mere 60 minutes, Lypsinka channels Joan Crawford, Phyllis Diller, Bette Davis, Ethel Merman, everyone from Natalie Wood in Gypsy to Agnes Moorehead in Bewitched to Faye Dunaway in Chinatown -- but the power of the moment, the conviction of the performer within the world she is creating, vaults you beyond your awareness of the recording of someone else to a place where what's being pretended is also real. Lypsinka is speaking, just as Regan is growling the voice of Satan...."
Miracle on 34th Street
Film Review December 12, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: A real holiday classic, this one's bound to make a Christmas booster out of the most hardened cynic. Little Natalie Wood plays a girl who challenges the reality of Kriss...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: George Seaton. Starring: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood, Thelma Ritter and Porter Hall..."
Writing Rebel
Screens Story June 16, 2000
by Chale Nafus
Description: Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Stewart Stern remembers writing Rebel Without a Cause:"I was caught up in the same kind of fervency and speed that the characters were."
"...Along the paths he now walks through the arboretum near his home in Seattle, Stewart has "animated the trees with the souls of deceased friends" so he will have "a place to put my thanks because all those people changed my life." As he passes by, touching each tree, he greets the "large, beautiful, big-leaf maple covered in moss halfway up the trunk in the deep shade of other trees." In that tree live Jimmy Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, David Weisbart, and Nick Ray. Though disappointed that not all the carefully crafted words and relationships made their way from script to screen, Stewart Stern has finally accepted the cinematic version of Rebel Without a Cause and is grateful for its long and meaningful life..."
Instant Classic
Screens Story May 19, 2000
by Marc Savlov
"...D: Nicholas Ray; with James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Dennis Hopper, Edward Platt, Nick Adams. (PG, 111 min.)..."
Star Chambers
Arts Story December 3, 1999
by Robert Faires
"...I get song lyrics that remind me of the character and put those up around my mirror. I have a couple of pictures of Natalie Wood that I put up..."
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Film Review August 5, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Mazursky's satire of sexual attitudes skewers the liberal line of thought regarding the pleasures of free love. A hip, rich couple (Wood and Culp) introduce Gould and Cannon to the...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Paul Mazursky. Starring: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon..."
Two Girls and a Guy
Film Review April 24, 1998
by Marc Savlov
Description: Ah Spring, when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of… duplicitous, conniving, scheming, cheating, lying love. Toback once again directs Downey, Jr. (first time was in The Pick-up Artist...
by Marc Savlov
"...The script -- much of which was improvised over the course of the film's short, sharp shoot -- touches on everything from bisexuality to wanton desires to forgiveness in the face of overwhelming infidelities to Mormonism. (Despite the film's now-infamous 15 trips to the ratings board in order to bring one particular scene down from an NC-17 to an R, the film hardly deserves its dangerous reputation.) Both Graham and Wagner (daughter of Natalie Wood) are terrific, but it's Downey who predictably steals the show..."
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