Tag: biography

Blue Moon: Exuberent sorrow

Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon is a study in contradiction. From the title card that opens the films with two contrasting comments about Lorenz Hart, it pushes and pulls viewers various directions at the same time. But it is only through that frenzy that we can appreciate the chaos that makes up this conflicted person.

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Hesburgh – Conscience of the Nation

He was called ?the Conscience of the Nation.? He was the advisor and friend of Presidents of both parties from Dwight Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan. He served (and eventually chaired) the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. And around...

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