Archive for tag: Rip Torn

Review: The Seduction of Joe Tynan

18 February, 2010 (12:57) | Film Reviews, by Richard T. Jameson | By: Richard T. Jameson

[Originally published in Movietone News 62-63, December 1979]
Alan Alda is an unimpeachably right guy. He’s attractive, intelligent, multifariously talented, and probably good for the ecology. He is a model of sociopolitical conscientiousness, and a 100-percent masculine romantic icon without a touch of male-chauvinist-piggery. No matter how often or deservedly his talents [...]

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Review: The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

7 November, 2009 (18:05) | Film Reviews, Larry Cohen, by Pierre Greenfield | By: Pierre Greenfield

[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980]
“[W]e are afflicted with a secret police of a sort which I do not think a democratic republic ought to support. In theory, the FBI is necessary. For the investigation of crime. But in all the years that the FBI has been in existence, the [...]

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