Tag: rob-reiner
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Forty Years after Reiner’s “Stand by Me,” Ben King’s Hit Song Resonates
I’m sure I heard Ben King’s hit “Stand by Me” before I saw the film. Rob Reiner’s 1986 adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Body,” “Stand by Me” came out as summer ended around Sept. 5th. In the American lore of coming-of-age experienced, summer has persistently been a mile-marker of these experiences! According to TV shows…
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Even if You’ve Not Seen “It Happened One Night,” You’ve Seen What It Built
A film, 1934’s “It Happened One Night,” which no one outside of film students and historians have seen, but one most viewers have seen! That film didn’t create, but crystalized traits that during the last near century have become tropes in romantic comedies. I’m more cerebral. So I have not habit for watching romantic comedies.…
Will Wright: Award-Winning Independent Journalism, Exec Oratory and More... 