Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln
Apr.08.2013
Humbly pitching:
AMERICAN GALAXY: Celebrating the People and the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave / Remembering the Union's Faith Foundation / A Loving Higher Purpose for the People: http://uwachuku.googlepages.com/americangalaxy + http://ugowach.tigblog.org/post/503605 + http...
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Mar.12.2013
When we got the newsletter telling about the Continuing Education conference yesterday at John A. Logan College, I signed Gerald and me up to attend. With all the cancellations and problems of Katherine’s aides, however, I had become convinced we’d have to miss it. And we did...
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Feb.18.2013
What could be finer than a national holiday set aside for citizens to barely notice anything different at all except that the mail doesn't get delivered!! Yay!!!
However, when I was a wee bonnie lass, we actually celebrated Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays in school. We knew when their...
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Feb.12.2013
Tony Kushner is a superb playwright (``Angels in America,'' ``Homebody/Kabul'', among many), but he's wrong in his argument with Connecticutt congressman Joe Courtney over the film ``Lincoln.''
Courtney, viewing the Steven Spielberg film, screenplay by Kushner, was thrown by a scene that indicates...
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Jan.01.2013
Montage of President Abraham Lincoln and African Americans during the Civil War.(Library of Congress Public Domain)
Welcome to the first of this special 3-part article series presented in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation:
The fact that an African American sits...
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Dec.17.2012
Jack Hanlon was a freckle-faced child actor, who thrived during the Silent Era, and the early days of Hollywood’s Golden Age. He also co-starred in two Our Gang comedies at Hal Roach Studios. By the time he was 16, he chose to retire from motion pictures.
JACK HANLON
He made his...
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Dec.09.2012
Because of Spielberg’s Lincoln, and the upcoming second inaugural address of Barak Obama, there seems to be renewed interest in this address, given in the height of the Civil War.It’s the only such address that doesn’t thank constituents for re-election—indeed there’s not one word about...
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Nov.28.2012
Congressional Republicans are taking in a movie. They are getting a lesson in art of compromise by watching Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. In the latest epic motion picture, President Abraham Lincoln (played by Daniel Day Lewis) and Secretary of State William Seward (played by David Strathairn)...
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Nov.21.2012
LINCOLN a film review by Jeanne Powell
Director Stephen Spielberg’s Oscar-worthy film is adapted from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 best-seller, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Tony Kushner’s screenplay is ambitious and successful with a difficult...
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Nov.10.2012
You heard it here first...
Excerpt from the London/UK Telegraph's article on Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role of SpIelberg's movie Lincoln:
"Day-Lewis, 55, spent a year researching the role and took it so seriously that he remained in character throughout filming - even sending text messages...
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