Tom Roston
Journalist at Freelance
Journo. Kombucha/coffee/lager. Author of The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five and lots of other nonfiction.
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Jul 11, 2024 |
backstage.com | Tom Roston
It takes more than a strong jawline and sharp salute to successfully play a soldier on the big screen. Consider Tom Cruise as a Navy Air Force pilot in “Top Gun,” Mark Wahlberg as a Navy SEAL in “Lone Survivor,” Martin Sheen in “Apocalypse Now,” or Tom Hanks in “Saving Private Ryan.” You just believe these actors have gone beyond the wire. So, how do they do it? There are many paths to glory, but here are just a few tricks of the trade.
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May 2, 2024 |
backstage.com | Tom Roston
At this year’s Academy Awards, first-time winner Cord Jefferson made heads turn when he accepted the award for best adapted screenplay for “American Fiction,” his directorial debut that he’d struggled to get greenlit. His speech was part plea, part call-to-arms, imploring studio executives and other Hollywood gatekeepers to take more chances. “I understand that this is a risk-averse industry. I get it. But $200 million movies are also a risk.
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Jan 9, 2024 |
laphamsquarterly.org | Tom Roston |Anthony Grafton
Because civilization is not natural, sustaining it entails a continuous input of matter, energy, and morale, without which it would necessarily decline or even collapse. —William OphulsSigns of civilizational “decline or even collapse” show up in every morning’s headline, every evening’s newscast: mass killings in big cities and suburban shopping malls; children gunned down in elementary and high school classrooms.
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Jun 12, 2023 |
indiewire.com | Tom Roston
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Jun 12, 2023 |
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Tom Roston
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A legacy of 9/11 is that our bipartisan nation took care of the families of the immigrant workers who died that day. (Most, if not all, of the undocumented who died worked at Windows on the World.) Our kitchens are still run by immigrants. Don't turn on them now. https://t.co/ewkKEofxY3
RT @nathanbaugh27: Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question: “What makes a good story?” They gave one…
Journalist Tom Roston Examines Mental Health Issues Among Documentary Filmmakers https://t.co/qNxtIIURt7
