FEATURES
By Chris Kaltenbach and Chris Kaltenbach,Sun Staff Writer | December 7, 1994
Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich believes we can learn a lot from the movies -- like how to reform the welfare system.Build orphanages, he says. Many children of single welfare mothers would be better off in state-run orphanages or boarding schools, Mr. Gingrich says. And anyone who disagrees -- like first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton -- ought to rent "Boys Town," the 1938 film starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney that dramatized the founding of the famous Nebraska home for wayward boys.
NEWS
By Terry Teachout and Terry Teachout,Special to The Sun | February 5, 1995
Thomas Edison is the only scientist ever to have been portrayed by two different Hollywood stars, Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy. You don't make it to the silver screen even once unless there's something about your life that strikes a chord in the hearts of the plain people, and Edison definitely filled the bill. The idea of an all-American boy who skipped college to work as a telegraph operator, taught himself science after hours and invented the light bulb and phonograph was (and is) irresistibly appealing to the average middle-class American.
FEATURES
By Lou Cedrone and Lou Cedrone,Evening Sun Staff | January 30, 1991
Peter Weir, the Australian director, says he chose to write an direct ''Green Card'' because he felt it was time to ''dust off this wonderful and abundant genre.''The ''genre'' is the Hollywood comedies of the '30s nd '40s, movies made by actresses like Irene Dunne, Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard, Jean Arthur and Claudette Colbert.''I didn't exactly grow up with them, but like all people who were raised during the '50s, the old Hollywood film was part of the decade. All those movies were being shown on television, in Australia, and I was taken by them,'' he said.
NEWS
By Russell Baker | December 1, 1993
IT IS astonishing how much there is to keep up with, and how little time there is to do it. A few people -- President Clinton comes to mind -- seem able to keep up with everything, but everybody else has to say, "Sorry, dear Loni, but life is too short."I pick Loni at random as a human metaphor for all those things I am unable to keep up with because of the time shortage. I might just as well have picked Michael Jackson or the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations.I have been not keeping up with GATT, always pronounced "Gat," since 1972.
NEWS
By Ellen Gamerman and Ellen Gamerman,SUN NATIONAL STAFF | November 20, 1998
WASHINGTON -- Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr was Godzilla-size on the large-screen television at a local sports bar, but he and his history-making moment did not not seem to captivate the midday lunch crowd nearly as much as the bacon cheeseburgers."
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen and Frederick N. Rasmussen,SUN STAFF | October 17, 2002
Caroline Kirwan Warfield, a former Baltimore News-Post feature writer whose many exploits included appearing in a movie with Clark Gable and sailing aboard an old square-rigger through a ferocious North Atlantic storm, died of heart failure Saturday at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville. She was 91. Born Caroline Garner Kirwan in Baltimore and raised in Bolton Hill, she was a 1929 graduate of the Greenwood School and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. She married Albert Gallatin Warfield in 1941 and lived for many years at Sunnyside Farm in Woodbine.