John Candy would seemingly be a horrible documentary subject because there’s no controversy about him. Everyone liked him, and as the title “John Candy: I
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Country superstar singer and songwriter Tammy Wynette is best known for the track she uses to title her autobiography: “Stand by Your Man,” a hit
It’s hard to go wrong with a 1970s car-chase, shoot-out, bar-fight kind of film. “Walking Tall” (1973) has fairly modest ambitions. It wants to tell
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Country superstar singer-songwriter-fiddler Merle Haggard (1937-2016) was a rowdy youngster. He spent time in prison and reform schools (from which he repeatedly absconded). Eventually, he
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With the sheer number of Alfred Hitchcock biographies out there, you can easily find a warm one, such as the official bio, John Russell Taylor’s
Reading Michael Wood’s monograph “Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much” (2015, Houghton’s Icons series) is like chatting with an erudite friend about a