Bookworm on Nov 18 2008 | Filed under: Hollywood
WWII was a dreadful time, with about 400,000 American military deaths suffered during those four years. Just for perspective, we’ve been in Iraq for almost six years and, thank God, have sustained only 4,200 deaths.
Nevertheless, there’s a tendency to look back with nostalgia on America’s time during WWII, and that’s in part because the entertainment [...]
Bookworm on Nov 10 2008 | Filed under: Hollywood
Occasionally, the New York Times surprises me and prints genuinely useful information, such as this tidbit:
It was the highest-grossing film of 1943, but “This Is the Army” has never been available on home video in an authorized edition. But now Warner Home Video has managed to clear the rights to this rousing propaganda musical, which [...]
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