Happy Fathers' Day #6 -- May 16, 2013

Happy Mothers' Day, everyone. I'm grateful for my mother and my wife and my mother-in-law and sisters-in-law and cousins and friends. All excellent mothers.

Radio Days is one of my favorite Woody Allen movies.  Michael Tucker as the dad was not much like my father except that he loved his family and was always there for them.  I don't know why he wouldn't tell his kids that he drove a cab, but I have read that Woody Allen's father did the same thing.  Mia Farrow is wonderful as the ambitious actress.

I borrowed the photo from EveryWoodyAllenMovie (http://www.everywoodyallenmovie.com/). 

The Great Gatsby #3 -- May 9, 2013

Tomorrow, 10-May-2013, the latest movie adaption of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby will open in theaters. The third theatrical film version of the story came out in 1974.  The 18-March-1974 cover of Time Magazine featured Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan, and referred to the "supersell" of the movie.  I thought the movie was ok, but rather slow.

Sam Waterston played Nick Buchanan and one of my favorites, Bruce Dern, played Tom Buchanan.  Karen Black was very good as Myrtle Wilson. Scott Wilson played George Wilson. 

1927 Version (Warner Baxter as Gatsby)

Motion Picture Magazine Review of the 1927 Version

Photoplay Magazine Review of the 1927 Version

1949 Version (Alan Ladd as Gatsby)