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, […]
Phil Bacharach
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Make like a tree and …
“Oklahoma pretty much got hammered,” said state Forester and Forestry Services Director George Geissler. “Even what you would call drought-tolerant trees — and by that I mean primarily the Eastern red cedar — have succumbed to the drought. It’s been a bad year.” In urban areas, he said, most of the lost trees are small-needle […]
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
As played by human chameleon Gary Oldman (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2”), British intelligence officer George Smiley is as tightly wound as they come, revealing precious little but taking in everything through his big, Swifty Lazar-styled specs. Based on the acclaimed 1974 spy novel by John le Carré, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” […]
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Be it resolved …
As always, Jan. 1 gives us a chance to do better: Lose weight. Read more. Get organized. Dig a hole and hide the body. You know the drill. Before you cobble your own New Year’s resolution on your stone of choice, you might want to get a few ideas from some of your fellow Oklahomans. […]
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Reel good
Rod Lott’s picks With even fewer great movies in 2011 than 2010, I was unsure whether I’d be able to find enough to fill the standard 10 slots. (Oddly, Tom Cruise to the rescue!) I’m also unsure what it says about me that I know general audiences would not be able to handle four of […]
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Gazette names new editor-in-chief
An award-winning journalist, Bacharach was an associate editor and staff writer for the Gazette between 1994 and 1999. Among his beats were politics, education and the Oklahoma City bombing. He has remained a fixture in these pages in subsequent years, contributing occasional features and film reviews as he pursued careers in political communications and public […]
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Gazette names new editor-in-chief
An award-winning journalist, Bacharach was an associate editor and staff writer for the Gazette between 1994 and 1999. Among his beats were politics, education and the Oklahoma City bombing. He has remained a fixture in these pages in subsequent years, contributing occasional features and film reviews as he pursued careers in political communications and public […]
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Another Earth
Relative newcomer Brit Marling, who co-wrote and co-produced the picture, portrays Rhoda, an intelligent young woman with a scholarship to MIT and plans to become an astrophysicist. Those dreams disappear in an instant, however, when she causes a car accident that kills a woman and her small child. That wreck leaves a grieving husband and […]
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Another Earth
Relative newcomer Brit Marling, who co-wrote and co-produced the picture, portrays Rhoda, an intelligent young woman with a scholarship to MIT and plans to become an astrophysicist. Those dreams disappear in an instant, however, when she causes a car accident that kills a woman and her small child. That wreck leaves a grieving husband and […]
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Hugo
What is unexpected, however, is that this mash note comes in a rare outing for him: a family-friendly film based on a popular children’s book. Set in 1930s Paris, “Hugo” concerns Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield, “The Wolfman”), a young boy who keeps the clocks running in a sprawling train station. Orphaned and on his own, […]