February 1, 2006
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“Good Night and Good Luck”
– Morgan Freeman, closing remarks
at the Screen Actors Guild Awards
on January 29, 2006
A History
of Death
Review by Stephen Hunter
of “Good Night and Good Luck”–“The film, therefore, is like
a child’s view of these events,
untroubled by complexity,
hungry for myth and simplicity.”“A larger poem for a larger audience….
A mythological form, a festival sphere,
A great bosom, beard and being,
alive with age.”– Wallace Stevens, quoted in
Log24, January 29, 2006
Stephen Hunter on Senator McCarthy:
He “forever
tarnished
by association the reputations
of the security services
charged with keeping us safe
from the actual–
yes, Virginia, there
was
such a thing– Red menace.”
