Nell Minow
Freelance Movie Critic at Freelance
Assistant Editor at RogerEbert.com
Movie critic on radio, print, online https://t.co/chm9W1rhgq, Assistant editor @ebertvoices, @thecredits moviemom at https://t.co/chm9W1rhgq
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3 days ago |
rogerebert.com | Nell Minow
Todd Purdom's new book is a biography of Desi Arnaz, described in the subtitle as "The Man Who Invented Television." Most people today associate him with the straight man for his then-wife, Lucille Ball, in the classic "I Love Lucy" sitcom, and the character he played, nightclub singer Ricky Ricardo. But Arnaz's most enduring legacy was behind the scenes, in the technological and strategic innovations he insisted on, as well as the business he built.
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1 week ago |
awfj.org | Nell Minow
0 Flares 0 Flares × The excellent documentary Dumbstruck shows us that many, if not most ventriloquists feel that they can make more unfiltered, even outrageous comments as their puppets than they can as themselves. We can think of narrative filmmaking as a kind of ventriloquism, with the actors who may look and sound very different expressing the words and emotions imagined by the writer and director.
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2 weeks ago |
rogerebert.com | Nell Minow
Bruce Handy's book, Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Moviesis an absolute delight, with fascinating details, first about the "invention" of the idea of the teenager as a separate way of life in the early 20 th century and then as a consumer powerhouse and cultural force in the mid-century and beyond and then about the movies about and for teenagers, as a reflection and influence.
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1 month ago |
corpgov.law.harvard.edu | Nell Minow
Congress, Proxy advisory, Proxy voting, SECMore from: Nell Minow, ValueEdge AdvisorsNell Minow is the Vice Chair of ValueEdge Advisors. This post is based on her testimony in a hearing of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets of the House Committee on Financial Services. I am very grateful for the opportunity to share my thoughts on proxy advisory firms. I welcome your questions and will submit supplemental materials as necessary following this session.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Nell Minow
One night while my family was having dinner, the president of the United States called my dad to complain about something he’d seen on television. My father, Newton Minow, was then the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. And the president, John F. Kennedy, was furious. “Did you see Huntley-Brinkley tonight?” Kennedy asked, referring to NBC’s nightly news broadcast, anchored by the journalists Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.
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