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Bud Abbott And Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein [by George Green]
When Frankenstein meets Abbott and Costello he’s waiting for some major surgery. He needs a new brain, Dracula decides, and Lou’s brain is the pick; it’s pliable. Lon Chaney Jr. plays the anxious Wolf…
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“Hamlet versus the Nazis” [by David Lehman]
Ed note: I write the "Talking Pictures" monthly column on movies for The American Scholar. My latest deals with Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 masterpiece, "To Be or Not to Be," with Carole Lombard and Jack…
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Perjury Marloff Handicaps the Poets! [by Walter Carey]
In a rare interview with the gun-shy Ms. Marloff, I got her to open up about the current situation in poetry last Friday. First (she said) let me say a few words about poor…
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“Confessions of a Mask” [by David Lehman]
These are the confessions of a mask.I looked in the mirror and saw a ghost.Of all lost causes I miss it the most.These are the questions you must not ask. These are the oaks…
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Elizabeth Bishop’s final exam at Harvard [from Dana Gioia’s new book]
<<<<A university student should have at least one unforgettable teacher during his or her formative years. So it was with poet Dana Gioia, California's poet laureate and the guest editor of The Best American…
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A Conversation with David Shapiro
In October 2018 I had a phone conversation with my friend from Columbia days, David Shapiro. Some highlights from his telephonic table talk: <<<In Ashbery's collages the juxtaposition of images is like the two-person…
