Thrice I have named Fredric March the year’s best actor; in the first of the films occasioning this, The Eagle and the Hawk, from the story “Death in the Morning” by John Monk Saunders, March plays pilot Jerry Young, an American volunteer in Britain’s Royal Air Force in the Great War. The principal source of […]
Daily Archives: June 9, 2009
“Hell, I’m mean to everything and everybody,” says Francis Aloyisius Phelan, who has been a bum living on the streets, scraping by with occasional work, having abandoned wife and children since losing his grip and fatally dropping his son, 13 days old, twenty-two years ago. In truth, Francis also has a gentle side, but he […]
Dennis Grunes 