FIRST AMENDMENT Quote of the Day: Edward G. Robinson - Marion Star

"A censored press is the tool of a corrupt minority. A free press is the symbol of a free people. Truth is freedom. And without truth, there can only be slavery and degradation.""Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution ...

Poet Laureate of the Airwaves - Forward

Norman Corwin, the writer and radio producer who died on October 18 at age 101, was often dubbed the “poet laureate of radio” by journalists, but he was rather more than that. Born in an East Boston tenement to parents of Russian-Hungarian Jewish ...

Did the CNN Republican Presidential Debate Mean the End of Newt Gingrich? (UPDATED) - The Moderate Voice

In the final scene of the classic 1931 movie “Little Ceasar,” the gangster, played by the great Edward G. Robinson, his body riddled with bullets shot by police, says: “”Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?” In the wake of last night’s ...

In the Shadowy Recesses of'Noir'- Wall Street Journal

When I think"noir,"I think of Humphrey Bogart lighting a cigarette in the screen version of Dashiell Hammett's"The Maltese Falcon."I think of Tom Ripley temporarily talking his way out of a bind in a Patricia Highsmith novel. I also think of ...

Movies help fuel'Myth of the Mob'- Las Vegas Review Journal

The Mob Museum without mob movies? Fuhgeddaboutit. Never fear; they didn't. Instead, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement -- better known as the Mob Museum, which opens next month in downtown Las Vegas on the 83rd anniversary of ...

Daily Call Sheet: Monty Python Returns, R-Rated ‘Terminator,’ Studios Losing Netflix War - Big Hollywood (blog)

That’s the ONLY news on ‘Terminator 5.’ Nothing else is really happening, just a tweet from the woman funding the film. This might be heresy, but I thought “Terminator 3″ was damn good and could care less about the rating. The story ...