Carl Rollyson
@crollyson
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Reviewer@NewYorkSun;https://t.co/G6qQZBWw6O; forthcoming: Making the American Presidency; Searching for Sylvia; Sappho’s Fire; Our Eve Arden; Herman Melville Anew
Joined April 2009
what happened when she worked with Eve Arden on Grease? i will say in Our Eve Arden.
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antagonists in the film; friends off screen
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Dana Andrews (1909–1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia...
Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, and Clifton Webb starred in Laura (1944)
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Reminds me of how many people are using “multiple” when they just mean many.
@crollyson @DADiClementi @SugarpussOShea1 Writing is the art of simple and elegant communication. In fact, all art is that. I never "utilized" Elements of Style, but I often used it.
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A revised memory: he said “the virtues of the subordinate clause.”.
I was taught at Michigan State University by a great literary historian, Russel B. Nye. After reading one of my essays, he told me: “Very good, but you need to learn the advantages of the subordinate clause.”.
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I was taught at Michigan State University by a great literary historian, Russel B. Nye. After reading one of my essays, he told me: “Very good, but you need to learn the advantages of the subordinate clause.”.
@crollyson I thank my professors for my writing. Where's your thesis? one asked. What's a thesis? I replied. He looked at me as if to say, better find out before you attempt another essay. I learned quick that you must have a point to make when you write. @DADiClementi @SugarpussOShea1.
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8/29/33: Detroit Free Press: RC, assisted by business manager William Hawks refuses to work in another Goldwyn film. The standoff was resolved in fall of 1933 when Goldwyn made a deal with Joseph Schenck at Twentieth Century Pictures to put RC in 2 movies.
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Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero by Carl Rollyson 490 pages 6x9 ISBN 9798887714370 Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the talkies,...
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In writing courses, I allowed for multiple revisions, and many of those worried students got grades good enough to keep their financial aid. Was that grade inflation? I would show them my own multiple drafts, often marked up by my wife, a better writer than I am.
The same student said: “You have been the only teacher who has taught me anything about writing.” His response was atypical. Mostly students were worried about losing their financial aid and said I would have to grade higher. It all depends on your performance was my reply.
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The same student said: “You have been the only teacher who has taught me anything about writing.” His response was atypical. Mostly students were worried about losing their financial aid and said I would have to grade higher. It all depends on your performance was my reply.
@JoyceCarolOates Students complained about getting Cs and Ds. Typical response: “I’ve never received such a grade.” My reply, “I guess the problem is me.” Taken aback, a student usually did not know what to say. One C student took a 2nd class with me. Why? “Because,” he said, “you were honest.”.
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August 28, 1945: Receives 500 stamps on approval from the Jamestown Stamp Company, divides them up with Warren, spends the afternoon sorting and hinging stamps, bikes to the library and checks out Invincible Louisa, a biography of Louisa May Alcott
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Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems...
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August 28, 1950: Time review of Collected Stories conveys “the excitement that comes from never knowing when, amidst pages of failure, there will come a masterpiece.” On September 10, I will be discussing “Dry September.” Join:
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Online | Explore the harrowing account of a lynching that delves into the intersection of race, gender, and mob mentality, examining how white women’s roles and the psychological forces of the crowd...
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8/28/21, East of Suez debuts in Atlantic City RC is Harry Anderson, a British merchant in Peking, described by Somerset Maugham as “a man of thirty, fair, good-looking, with a pleasant, honest face.”
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Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the talkies, remained Hollywood's gentleman hero for more than two decades. He appeared with many of the...
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Montgomery Advertiser, 8/27/44: Juliet Benita Colman christened. RC “thrilled and excited.”
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Whatever the role, whatever the misunderstanding or misfortune or lapse from good form and virtue, Colman’s characters eventually righted themselves.
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Her showdown with herself and with therapy had been developing over more than 6 years, beginning on August 27, 1952 when she read The Story of My Psychoanalysis by John Knight, “pen name of a famous scientist who was sick and unhappy and didn’t know why.”
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
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8/26/46: Robert Penn Warren review of The Portable Faulkner: “the emphasis on the southern elements may blind us to other elements, a modern world in “moral confusion, lacking “discipline…sanctions…community…values…a sense of a mission.”
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August 26, 1953: “Day-long search fails to find Smith student,” reported the Amesbury, Massachusetts Daily News.
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
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Grace Cutler in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (August 26, 1926) reported that on Broadway an advertisement in electric lights announced Colman’s appearance as “the man you love.” She called Colman a “hero of the D’Artagnan school.”
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