... that is reserved for those we lift up to be icons, mythical figures who represent what we believe in, and who act out on the screen the way we would like to be. I heard Janet Maislan interviewed on the NewsHour by Jim Lehrer this last week, on the day that Jimmy Stewart died. Lehrer asked Maislan, who is a movie critic for The New York Times, "What was Jimmy Stewart really like? What was the real person behind the myth really like?" She said, "Nobody knew. And what's more, nobody wanted to know." They didn ...
... that is reserved for those we lift up to be icons, mythical figures who represent what we believe in, and who act out on the screen the way we would like to be. I heard Janet Maislan interviewed on the NewsHour by Jim Lehrer this last week, on the day that Jimmy Stewart died. Lehrer asked Maislan, who is a movie critic for The New York Times, "What was Jimmy Stewart really like? What was the real person behind the myth really like?" She said, "Nobody knew. And what's more, nobody wanted to know." They didn ...
