Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

The life and legacy of the First Lady of Jazz

"...a whitewashing, the instantaneous and sustained genius of Ella Fitzgerald read as a musical Cinderella story: A 16-year-old girl..."

June 19, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

'NFL Analysis 101': Fiendish Fish, Frolicking Amphibians, and the Fancy Lads of Fitzgerald

"...Giants Printed Comparison: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Eli Manning is the quiet rich kid that every..."

March 19, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Beefcake

"...Directed by: Thom Fitzgerald. Starring: Joe D'Allesandro, Jim Lassiter, Jack Lalanne, Griffin Mazeika,..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Hanging Garden

"...Directed by: Thom Fitzgerald. Starring: Chris Leavins, Troy Veinotte, Kerry Fox, Sarah Polley,..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Writing the Frontier

First-time screenwriter Kieran Fitzgerald scores big with The Homesman

"...know she was there until you mentioned it," Kieran Fitzgerald deadpans as we settle into our table at the..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

Fitzgeralds Everywhere

Four new books riding the Gatsby wave

"...release of Baz Lurhmann’s contemporary take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, books with any mention of Fitzgerald..."

June 12, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

F. Scott Fitzgerald's slender, unsentimental curio has been stretched by David Fincher into a nearly three-hour-long motion picture about a man (played by Brad Pitt) who ages in reverse.

"...quite a feat, really, to have stretched F. Scott Fitzgerald's slender, unsentimental curio into a three-hour-long – very long..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dark Blue World

"...Lukás Kantor, Charles Dance, David Novotny, Oldrich Kaiser, Tara Fitzgerald, Krystof Hádek and Ondrej Vetchy. Like many Czech filmmakers..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Day at the Beach

"...Directed by: Nick Veronis. Starring: Nick Veronis, Patrick Fitzgerald, Neal Jones, Catherine Kellner, Jane Adams, Joe Ragno and..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Revenant

Iñárritu’s Western loses the forest for the trees, but oh, what trees

"...(Goodluck), to be watched over by two trappers, John Fitzgerald (Hardy) and Jim Bridger (Poulter), who will presumably bury..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Girl Most Likely

Kristen Wiig plays the darker side of the girl who hasn't fulfilled her potential and Annette Bening co-stars as her Atlantic City mom.

"...Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Darren Criss, Matt Dillon, Christopher Fitzgerald, June Diane Raphael, Natasha Lyonne and Bob Balaban...."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Great Gatsby

A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.

"...and maybe the problem is with paper: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s required-reading source novel has been notoriously tricky to transpose..."

May 10, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

This celebratory documentary skips briskly over the 60-plus-year career of one of jazz's pre-eminent and most original singers.

"...whom many put in the same league as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan. With a vibratoless voice..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Theresa Everline

Manhattan Romance

New York-set indie rom-com just goes through the motions

"...by: Tom O’Brien. Starring: Tom O’Brien, Katherine Waterston, Caitlin FitzGerald, Gaby Hoffmann, Zach Grenier and Jessie Barr...."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Bookshop

British period literary drama is pretty weak tea

"...The Dying Animal as Elegy. But in adapting Penelope Fitzgerald's 1978 Booker prize-nominated novel, what she evokes is an..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Genius

Editor Maxwell Perkins and author Thomas Wolfe collaborate in biopic

"...at Charles Scribner's Sons, Perkins also championed F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, whose stars rose over the next..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The AggreGAYtor: January 3

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...obvious that you’ve got a crush, and F. Scott Fitzgerald picks a daisy. There is no confusion like the..."

Jan. 3, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Terri

The keen observational style of this indie drama elevates it above the more commonplace films about high school misfits.

"...and that brings him to the attention of Mr. Fitzgerald (Reilly), the assistant principal. Reilly, the MVP of character..."

July 22, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Sister's Keeper

Nick Cassavetes' reign as the go-to waterworks man remains uncontested.

"...one the memory book of teenage cancer patient Kate Fitzgerald (Vassilieva), into which she pastes the photos and bric-a-brac..."

June 26, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The United States of Leland

Kevin Spacey-produced indie drama plays like The OC's more intellectual, older sibling.

"...all the fuss is about. After all, Leland P. Fitzgerald (Gosling) did stab an autistic boy to death (to..."

April 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

"...when his company's newly hired efficiency pro Betty Ann Fitzgerald (Hunt) arrives and takes an instant dislike to his..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Death in Brunswick

"...up your life and grow up. The day Carl Fitzgerald finally stumbles out of his trashed-out Melbourne shack and..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Penfold Theatre Gives Live Readings of Radio Plays in the Ransom Center Archives

The company has dusted off radio adaptations of Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, and Thackeray for the 21st century to hear – live

"...1947, with Judith Anderson and Maurice Evans), F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise (broadcast April 8, 1951, with..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Outside the System

Two artists go beyond the gallery walls to find new ways of sharing their work

"...and two artists in Austin, Russ Freeland and Christopher Fitzgerald, are concurrently pursuing what it means to make and..."

April 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Probation Officers Union: Bexar us the pain

AG backs out of subpoena to out anonymous bloggers on site formed by Bexar Co. probation officers to aid in unionizing effort

"...an ongoing struggle with Bexar Co. Probation Director Bill Fitzgerald, who they say is trying to put the kibosh..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

Ali Fitzgerald: Swan School; The Matriculation

"...'Ali Fitzgerald: Swan School; The Matriculation'..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

The Christening: Ali Fitzgerald and Cruz Ortiz

Risa Puleo's concept for her new gallery The Donkey Show and the paintings by Ali Fitzgerald in it are provocative in a way that only the strongest incitements to thought can be

"..."Christening: Ali Fitzgerald and Cruz Ortiz"..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Letters at 3AM

America's ideal of liberty shaped the country's finest authors

"...F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) wrote one century after Poe. He sought romance,..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

This meticulous biography paints a stunning portrait of the late-blooming English author

"...Penelope Fitzgerald: A Lifeby Hermione Lee Knopf, 512pp., $35..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Melanie Haupt

Raped by the Players

A lawsuit against an Austin dot-com firm reveals a world of fast times.

"...prevented what happened in Lisa [Capece's] case?" asks Louise Fitzgerald, a psychology and women's studies professor at the University..."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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