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June 26, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Disease that Makes People Too Good, Thelma & Louise, and More

June 26, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Disease that Makes People Too Good, Thelma & Louise, and More

And a Memoir About Growing Up in a Very Eccentric Hollywood Clan

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June 26, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Barack Obama, William Syndrome, Thelma and Louise, Hollywood
March 17, 2017

REVIEW: High Noon, a Classic Western as McCarthy-Era Political Allegory

March 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: High Noon, a Classic Western as McCarthy-Era Political Allegory

A Sheriff Who Showed the Importance of Standing Up to Thuggery

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March 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
High Noon, Hollywood, McCarthy Era, House Un-American Affairs Committee, Communism
February 14, 2017

Q&A: Why 'Casablanca,' the Greatest of Bittersweet Romances, Endures After 75 Years

February 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Why 'Casablanca,' the Greatest of Bittersweet Romances, Endures After 75 Years

Idealists, Cynics, Nazis, Collaborators -- and, of Course, Bogart and Bergman

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February 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Casablanca, Movies, Hollywood
September 07, 2016

READ THIS: A New Anthology Tries to Figure Out the Elusive James Dean

September 07, 2016/ Adam Cohen
READ THIS: A New Anthology Tries to Figure Out the Elusive James Dean

The 1950's Rebel Icon was a "Tough Boy to Understand"

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September 07, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
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James Dean, Movies, Actors, Hollywood, Rebels, Icons
August 15, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: An Oral History of Hollywood's Top Agency, a Black Man Who Killed to Not Become a Slave, and More

August 15, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: An Oral History of Hollywood's Top Agency, a Black Man Who Killed to Not Become a Slave, and More

And a Journalist's Memoir of her Partner's Drowning Death

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August 15, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Hollywood, Oklaho, Oklahoma, Slavery, Oral History
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