With its forced togetherness and obligatory gifts, not to mention holiday music from Halloween on, the holiday season is enough to give anyone shudders. The good people at Ghostlight Theatre understand that. For one night this season, they encourage you to let your hair down and laugh it off — possibly in self-defense. “It’s really […]
Dick
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Citizen Dick
“Of course I miss Oklahoma. Most of my family’s from Oklahoma, so there’s always a hole in the place of them,” said Dick, who hails from the Caddo County town of Cogar. “It seems to be that every time I come back through, there’s always some new thing, especially Oklahoma City. That seems to be […]
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Rudyard Kipling’s Mark of the Beast
Not only is the title superimposed over an image from the indie effort, but two clickable options, two URLs and four review blurbs, as if to convince you upfront that you are about to witness brilliance. To further complicate the eyesore, the blurbs are not presented in consistent typeface, color or size. In other words, […]
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The Phynx
To review the movie, I need only tell you what it’s about. The dictator of communist Albania has swiped dozens of United States “world leaders,” including Butterfly McQueen, Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Dorothy Lamour, Xavier Cugat, Col. Sanders, Busby Berkeley, the Bowery Boys, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. (Mind you, all of them appear as […]
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CFN NSFW Quote of the Week
“Look at Captain Long Dick out there. This guy like to fuck or what?” —Broken Arrow native Kristin Chenoweth, in the trailer for the film Hit & Run
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Festi-full
Iconic detective Dick Tracy has spent eight decades on the comics page since Chester Gould invented the character in 1931. Although the story reflected the era’s Chicago gangland, Darrell Gambill wants the world to know it all started in Pawnee, now home to the Dick Tracy Headquarters. “Gould was one-of-a-kind; he was the first to […]
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Oklahoma native ‘Dick Tracy’ creator helped revolutionize law enforcement
Although his often-grotesque villains were larger than life, Gould was big on realism when it came to Tracy’s investigations. Said Michael Vance, volunteer curator of the Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection at the Toy and Action Figure Museum in Pauls Valley, “He wanted to be as close and authentic as possible.” “Dad’s goal in life […]