<![CDATA[Stephen Murray - Yahoo! Voices]]> en-us Copyright 2012 voices.yahoo.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:59:48 EDT http://l.yimg.com/ck/siteimg/PP-voices.jpg http://voices.yahoo.com/ Voices <![CDATA[Draft of My Platform for the 2012 Presidential Election]]> A model platform that no current candidate for the nomination of either major party has advanced.

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Nov 15, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/first-draft-platform-10446161.html <![CDATA[Get Me to the Church on Time (with the Right Tuxedo Vest)!]]> Review of William Fulks's memoir of getting married on schedule despite the destruction of his abode and much else by Hurricane Katrina, Katrina Wedding

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Nov 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/get-me-church-time-10424127.html <![CDATA[Ariel Dorfman at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center]]> Report of Ariel Dorfman, interviewd onstage by Ilan Stavans, at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center about exile and languages, 10/11/11

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Oct 18, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/ariel-dorfman-san-francisco-10236325.html <![CDATA[A Deservedly Forgotten 1955 Gangster Melodrama “The Naked Street”]]> Review of “The Naked Street” (1955) and gang-and-dame melodrama starring Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, and Peter Graves

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Sep 24, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/a-deservedly-forgotten-1955-gangster-9246745.html <![CDATA["The Big Night": A 1951 Noir that was the Last Movie Joseph Losey Made in the US]]> Review of Joseph Losey's 1951 noir "The Big Night" starring John (Drew) Barrymore Jr.

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Sep 23, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-big-night-1951-noir-was-9190803.html <![CDATA[Launching Justin Torres]]> Report of Justin Torres Books Inc. appearance promoting "We the Animals" and commenting on his meteoric rise to attention in the literary world

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Sep 08, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/launching-justin-torres-9095415.html <![CDATA["Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff" (2010)]]> Review of superficial (but goodlooking!) 2010 documentary "Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff"

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Aug 30, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/cameraman-life-work-jack-9049109.html <![CDATA[Gray 1960s England in Three Movies: All Night Long, Inadmissable Evidence, the White Bus]]> Discussion of three British Movies from the 1960s: All Night Long (1962) , Inadmissable Evidence (1968), The White Bus (1967)

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Aug 03, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/gray-1960s-england-three-movies-8910253.html <![CDATA[Ten Best San Francisco (-Set) Novels]]> List (in chronological order of first publication) of the best novels set in San Francisco

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jul 19, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/ten-best-san-francisco-set-novels-8830281.html <![CDATA[Around Town (San Francisco) in Recent Independent Movies]]> Discussion of locations and characters' travails (not least prejudices) in five recent independent movies shot in whole or most parts in San Francisco (from north to south).

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jul 19, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/around-town-san-francisco-recent-8803865.html <![CDATA[The Picasso Show at the De Young Museum]]> Reflections on the (San Francisco) De Young Museum show of works from the Paris Picasso Museum

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jul 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-picasso-show-de-young-museum-8792481.html <![CDATA["Harsh Times": Christian Bale May Be Too Good at Playing Men at or Over the Breaking Point]]> Review of "Harsh Times" (2005): the movie is a mess as well as being about a character who is a homicidal mess, played with creepy convincingness by Christian Bale

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jun 29, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/harsh-times-christian-bale-may-too-8722869.html <![CDATA[The 1925 Adaptation of "The Scarlet Letter": One of the Greatest American Silent Movie Dramas]]> Review of the 1925 silent movie "The Scarlet Letter" starring Lillian Gish, directed by Victor Sjostrom

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jun 27, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-1925-adaptation-scarlet-8707463.html <![CDATA[Three Novels by Gay Australian Neil Drinnan: Glove Puppet, Pussy's Bow, Quill]]> Review of three novels by Neil Drinnan: Glove Puppet, Pussy's Bow, Quill

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jun 26, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/three-novels-gay-australian-neil-8704427.html <![CDATA[Canadian Film Pushing Some Hot-button Issued: "Whole New Thing"]]> Review of "Whole New Thing,' a character-driven independent Canadian film about an intellectually precocious, emotionally underdeveloped 13-year-old geek dumped in school

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jun 26, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/canadian-film-pushing-some-hotbutton-8703039.html <![CDATA["Shirobamba: A Childhood in Old Japan," an Autobiographical Novel by Inoue Yasusi]]> Review of "Shirobamba: A Childhood in Old Japan," a 1960 autobiographical novel by Inoue Yasusi, author of "Tun-Huang"

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jun 25, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/shirobamba-childhood-old-japan-8699401.html <![CDATA[Novelist Jane Smiley at the San Francisco Public Library]]> Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley at the San Francisco Public Library, 21 June 2011

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jun 25, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/novelist-jane-smiley-san-francisco-8698979.html <![CDATA[Henry Jaglom Trying to Show Female "Emotional Truth" in "A Safe Place" (1971)]]> Review of "A Safe Place" (1971) the most obscure (but not most nonsensical) of the BBS productions brought to DVD by Criterion Editions

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jun 21, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/henry-jaglom-trying-show-female-8678637.html <![CDATA[A Good College Basketball Movie Intercut with a Bad College Student Going Over the Edge Movie]]> Review of "Drive, He Said," the first feature film directed by Jack Nicholson, featuring his "5 Easy Pieces" costar, Karen Black

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jun 20, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/a-good-college-basketball-movie-intercut-8670893.html <![CDATA[The Torture and Killing "had Been Going on Forever and was Only Just Beginning": "Street of Lost Footsteps" by Lyonel Trouillot]]> Review of "Street of Lost Footsteps" by Lyonel Trouillot, an intense, fragmentary portrayal of a night of apocalyptic violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Contributor: Stephen Murray
Published: Jun 19, 2011

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