Five Arty Reasons to Visit the Blanton

As the art museum gets an exterior makeover, don't miss the beauty inside

"...MLK. Parking at Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK. blantonmuseum.org. Autobiography: Japan (Mountain Reflection)..."

May 12, 2023 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

Spoiler Alert

Jim Parsons gets his Love Story moment in this wonderful tearjerker

"...the full title of TV journalist Michael Ausiello's 2017 autobiography, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, lets slip, Spoiler Alert..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

American Underdog

Kurt Warner biopic is too winsome to win big

"...we really need the platitude-laden screenplay (based on Warner’s autobiography, less arrogantly entitled All Things Possible) to preach a..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Why we write: the creative processes of the author as a human being

"...approach the material, since Vonnegut himself so constantly interwove autobiography and self-critique. So this isn't Weide inserting himself into..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Souvenir Part II

Second part of Joanna Hogg's chronicle of loss

"...For anyone who watched Joanna Hogg's heartbreaking 2019 semiautobiography, The Souvenir, the opening sequences of The Souvenir Part..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Reviews: The Souvenir Part II

Joanna Hogg's sequel is the portrait of the artist as filmmaker

"...For anyone who watched Joanna Hogg's heartbreaking 2019 semi-autobiography, The Souvenir, the opening sequences of The Souvenir Part..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 11-17

"...enjoyed the role, but in 1975 he wrote an autobiography called I Am Not Spock. In it, he clarified..."

June 11, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Book Review: I Came As a Shadow by John Thompson

Coach's autobiography is a tale of U.S. sports and U.S. history

"...a few months before the December release of his autobiography, I Came As a Shadow. In a country compulsively..."

March 3, 2021 Sports Post by Michael King

Son of the South

Real-life civil rights drama finds redemption for those raised racist

"...of The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, Bob Zellner's autobiography about his journey from third generation Klansman to Freedom..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review

Hillbilly Elegy

Redneck rehab drama is better intentioned but more tone-deaf than the book

"...It's adapted from J.D. Vance's best-selling but widely disaparaged autobiography, and its depiction is of a white Southern working..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Dark Divide

David Cross searches for sasquatch and heals his soul in this wilderness wonder

"...David Cross' acting career, all based on the best-selling autobiography of a leading lepidopterist (butterfly expert, to you and..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Truth

Binoche and Deneuve clash exquisitely as mère et fille

"...Fabienne’s autobiography, which is on the verge of publication, polishes her..."

July 3, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Darling Vivian

Vivian Cash removed from Johnny's shadow through their daughters' voices

"...tell the story. Vivian died in 2005, and her autobiography, I Walked the Line, came and went with barely..."

June 19, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band

All the steps before that last waltz

"...Roher, and the film draws, as well, on Robertson’s autobiography, Testimony. Once Were Brothers is something of a capper..."

March 6, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

John Cameron Mitchell Finds Life After Hedwig

Musical rule breaker moves into narrative podcasting with Anthem: Homunculus

"...more [about] myself." The end result is an "alternate autobiography," which includes grafted pieces of his past given new..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Screens Feature by James Scott

A Million Little Pieces

James Frey's Oprah-(de)endorsed junkie journal makes it to the screen

"...in this adaptation of James Frey's partially debunked addiction autobiography. Suitably, the distributors are delicately referring to the original..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Movie Review

In Like Flynn

The dangerous true legend of Errol Flynn's raucous early life

"...actor told his wild true tale in his 1937 autobiography Beam Ends, here adapted for the screen by a..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Movie Review

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

The life and times of the Golden Age of Cinema's favorite pimp

"...in an opening montage of reactions to Bowers' 2012 autobiography Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Joaquin Phoenix creates a charming warts-and-all portrait of cartoonist John Callahan

"...Van Sant’s script (adapted in part from Callahan’s autobiography of the same name) doesn’t have that same sour..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Don't Worry, Gus Van Sant Won't Get Far on Foot

Oscar-nominated director talks his new cartooning biopic

"...Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Callahan, and based on Callahan's autobiography, it chronicles the car crash that almost killed him..."

July 19, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sound on Sound Review: Thursday

Reunited ragers wait out the rain to bring fire

"...From chord one of “Autobiography of a Nation,” the firestorm fragility of Thursday was..."

Nov. 7, 2016 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Natalie Portman adapts Amos Oz's acclaimed memoir

"...depiction of what is, at the core, Amos Oz’s autobiography...."

Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bedside Manner: Guitar & Pen

Homework vs. live music ascension

"...summer’s end – concert promotions great Bill Graham’s 1992 autobiography, My Life Inside Rock and Out...."

June 22, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Elvis & Nixon

Now we can do more than wonder about the day these two men met

"...nation’s growing drug problem and communist threat. In her autobiography, Elvis and Me, his wife Priscilla Presley offers an..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...people want it to be the easy kind of autobiography, where it's like "the night I graduate"—no, that's the..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography

It's not unusual that Tom Jones doesn't kiss and tell

"...singer keenly associated with panties thrown onstage, Tom Jones' autobiography is surprisingly chaste. The 75-year-old Welshman married at age..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Sky Fall

Bradley Wiggins 86'ed from Sky Tour de France team

"...Team Sky would be included in his newly released autobiography, The Climb, Froome defended himself, saying, "I think I..."

June 9, 2014 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Kentucky Traveler: My Life in Music

Kentucky picker demures

"...Ricky Skaggs may have produced the most humble autobiography in music. His picking touches seminal movements in bluegrass..."

May 30, 2014 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Buck 'Em! The Autobiography of Buck Owens

Bakersfield sound revived – posthumously!

"...Buck 'Em! The Autobiography of Buck Owensby Buck Owens, with Randy Poe Backbeat..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Twisting by the Pool

Music on the printed page as opposed to a festival stage

"...January, I rifled through 500 pages of Pete Townshend's autobiography on the Texas Riviera and, just prior to South..."

June 21, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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