Gray's Anatomy

"...Directed by: Steven Soderbergh. Starring: Spalding Gray. Spalding Gray is like marzipan: You either love..."

July 18, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monster in a Box

"...Directed by: Nick Broomfield. Starring: Spalding Gray. By now, we know the drill. One lone..."

June 12, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letting the Monster Out of the Box

Did Spalding Gray have any secrets left for his journal?

"...But that's the world actor/writer Spalding Gray was living in when he premiered his first..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Ransom Center

UT acquires the archives of celebrated monologist Spalding Gray

"...his life while sitting at a table, still. But Spalding Gray was in motion in ways that were imperceptible..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

King of the Hill

A young boy who's separated from his family spends time in a dilapidated hotel in this Depression-era drama. Soderbergh's film is a lyrical piece of well-crafted passion that doesn't shirk the bleak realities of the time

"...Starring: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Joseph Chrest, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern, Karen Allen and Adrien Brody. Set..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...Peter Cohn; with Richard Lewis, Dianne Wiest, Faye Dunaway, Spalding Gray, Parker Posey, Amanda Plummer, Howard Rollins...."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

"...Gray's Anatomy..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature

Scanlines

Antonia's Line

"...Swimming to Cambodia D: Jonathan Demme; with Spalding Gray. VHS Home Video..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Screens Feature

So Much Specialness

David Byrne's cult classic True Stories captured a lost Texas and a prescient picture of today

"...senses of the word. In an unpublished manuscript in Spalding Gray's archive at the Harry Ransom Center, the late..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Head of the Class

With Senioritis, the conclusion to his quartet of plays set at a Catholic high school in Houston, solo performer Rob Nash is all set to graduate -- to Off-Broadway, says Robi Polgar.

"...And there is the ubiquitous Spalding Gray: "As for Spalding Gray, for my next project..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

sex, lies, and videotape; King of the Hill; Out of Sight

"...with Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern.Out of Sight D: Steven Soderbergh (1998);..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Review by Louis Black

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...renaissance of my relationship with nonfiction. The Journals of Spalding Gray (Knopf), edited by Nell Casey, reminds us of..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...Going Fine is an intimate portrait of master monologist Spalding Gray, as described by his most critical, irreverent and..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Glory Daze

"...of familiar faces wasted in useless cameos (examples include Spalding Gray, Mary Woronov, Brendan Fraser, Matthew McConaughey, Meredith Salinger,..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud

"...John Cage, Arthur Penn, Philip Johnson, Merce Cunningham and Spalding Gray. Upon hearing the name Buckminster Fuller, certain phrases..."

March 29, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...The great monologist Spalding Gray delivers something of a posthumous autobiography in this..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Articulations

Pan Soars Into Holdover

"...Coool. For info, call 454-3077 or 480-8100. Dining With Spalding Ever wondered what it would be like to eat..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Arts Column

Howdy, Pardner!

In 2010, the watchword among Austin creatives was 'collaboration'

"...national spotlight turned their way, the former with the Spalding Gray archives landing in Austin (the Ransom Center again);..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye

The floodgates are opening with a whole host of premieres and returning shows

"...Compared to the late, great monologist Spalding Gray (by whom Cleveland is obviously influenced) or comedian..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Television shows are using direct addresses to the audience more and more. What hath Ferris Bueller wrought? Also, say goodbye to Boy Meets World and, quite possibly, Sports Night.

"...Comparisons to monologuist Spalding Gray (Swimming to Cambodia) are not far-fetched, given that..."

May 5, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...SET IT OFF D: F. Gary Gray; with Queen Latifah, Vivica Fox, Jada Pinkett, Kimberly Elise,..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Paper

The chaos, confusion, and ongoing struggle that is involved in putting out a newspaper is well-captured in Howard's movie. Despite a melodramatic storyline, the texture rings true and the rapid-fire dialogue recalls screwball comedies from the Thirties.

"...Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid, Robert Duvall, Jason Robards, Spalding Gray, Catherine O'Hara and Clint Howard. Early every morning..."

April 1, 1994 Movie Review by Louis Black

Plastic Platoon

Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy on their 10-year tour of duty to make a stop-motion Vietnam epic starring action figures

"...Williams as it is a Vietnam pic, and while Spalding Gray's Jonathan Demme-directed Swimming to Cambodia is often hilarious,..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Articulations

Getting Seen

"...who went recently and was not turned away was Spalding Gray. The monologist, in town to perform his latest,..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Shortcuts

"...the narrative category. Two new films from Steven Soderbergh, Gray's Anatomy (the newest Spalding Gray monologue) and Schizopolis (in..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Screens Column

Paul Thomas Anderson on His Friendship With Jonathan Demme

Phantom Thread director to receive Texas Film Award

"...modern Gothic of Silence of the Lambs to capturing Spalding Gray's searing one-man show Swimming to Cambodia, but directing..."

March 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Watchmen

Three documentaries shine a light on playing to the audience

"...a performance film, but again, it doesn't start with Spalding Gray in the theatre – it starts with him..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

Henry Rollins takes his particular brand of political activism on the road

"...Like another spoken-word performer, the late, great Spalding Gray, Rollins has the impressive ability to keep an..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Neovagina Monologues: Tales of transformation

UT RTF professor Sandy Stone takes the stage to tell stories from the lives of transgendered individuals

"...borrows more from the work of the late storyteller Spalding Gray. In this performance, Stone sits behind a table..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Word Up, Showdown

Austin's teen poets unfurl their flag in Silicon Valley

"...Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra. When the late, great Spalding Gray had something to say in public, it was..."

July 13, 2007 Books Feature by Stacy Alexander Evans

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