The oak that is Oklahoma City’s dining scene and has sprouted and grown sturdy over recent decades lost its roots on July 22 with the passing of chef John Bennett at the age of 77. Bennett, who counted culinary luminaries James Beard and Julia Child as lifelong friends, helped push Oklahoma City out of the […]
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Zero Dark Thirty
Some, including Republican Sen. John McCain, accused director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who last collaborated on The Hurt Locker, of falsely suggesting that intel gleaned through torture is what led the CIA to bin Laden. The ensuing controversy hit fever pitch. Is ZDT a nearly journalistic work? Is it morally repugnant propaganda? Mostly, […]
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Argo
It’s a testament to the skills of the filmmakers that Argo delivers a deluge of suspense even when its ending is never in doubt. Up for seven Oscars on Sunday, it was released earlier this week on Blu-ray and DVD. There’s no way the movie industry could have resisted this stranger-than-fiction yarn. The film chronicles […]
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Zero Dark Thirty
Some, including Republican Sen. John McCain, accuse director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who last collaborated on The Hurt Locker, of falsely suggesting that intel gleaned through torture is what led the CIA to bin Laden. The controversy is at a fever pitch. Is ZDT a nearly journalistic work? Is it morally repugnant propaganda? […]
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The Man Nobody Knew
It’s a life explored, as much as one can explore a life mired in obfuscation, by Colby’s son, Carl Colby, in “The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby.” The documentary screens Thursday night at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Despite the familial connection between documentarian and subject matter, […]
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Erasing David
It’s a great idea for a stunt film, but terribly executed — a doc for the overly paranoid and the flat-out clueless. Before going off the grid, Bond requests documents from companies he’s done business with and is absolutely stunned — stunned — at the devious, nefarious things he learns. Amazon knows everyone he’s sent […]
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Inspector Inhofe
Now, some of the Lincoln-shot- Kennedy-from-the-grassy-knoll-in-Area 51 types out there may still have a few doubts. Luckily, Inspector Jim Inhofe is on the case. Sen. Inhofe, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was the first member of Congress to view photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse recently made available by the CIA. […]