Frank Rossi
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I decided to try freelance writing online after working as a newspaper copy editor for 15 years. As far as my writing experience, I wrote pop culture columns for my college newspaper and wrote reviews of history and pop culture books while working professionally as a copy editor.
I'm an avid reader of history books, specifically U.K. history through the 17th century. I took film studies in college and developed a critical eye for classic movies (1930s through 1970s -- my definition), often analyzing them in a historical or social context. Essentially, I tend to combine my love of classic films with my love of history, and my Suite 101 pieces likely will reflect this sensibility.
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A tribute to Vincent Price
No matter how threatening Vincent Price was on film, one sensed there always was a giggling prankster barely beneath the surface who wanted viewers to be in on the joke.
May 1, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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The Substance of Movie Directors' Styles
When a movie is conceived, no matter who writes the script or runs the camera or edits the footage, it's often the director's style that shines the brightest.
Apr 28, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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Woody Allen's 1970s New York Movies
In the realm of 1970s New York-centric moviemaking, only Sidney Lumet rivals Woody Allen in capturing the temperament of the city at the time.
Apr 16, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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More Movies Set in New York City after 1969
As New York City teetered near bankruptcy in the mid-1970s, Gotham movie plots and characters suggested the populace was headed for a nervous breakdown.
Apr 6, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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Movies set in New York City after 1969
New York movies in the 1970s largely reflected the decade as a whole: messy and grimy, and that doesn't even include the ubiquitous orange shag carpeting.
Apr 1, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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Movies set in New York City before 1969
As the song New York, New York goes: "If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere." If "it" refers to a movie, then that's not quite true.
Mar 23, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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What is a Character Actor?
The late, great Phil Hartman once summed up the value of character actors: They're the "glue" that holds the story together.
Mar 5, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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The Omen and the Amityville Horror
By the mid-70s, the devil had gone political and suburban, depicted through a cynical post-Watergate prism.
Feb 26, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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Rosemary's Baby and the Exorcist
Most people can be easily tempted into dismissing films about demons and the anti-Christ as mindless horror films even though some have something to say.
Feb 13, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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Merging the Golden Age with New Hollywood
The term "classic film" is subjective, no matter how you splice it, but a case can be made that the categorization covers the 1930s through the 1970s.
Feb 4, 2009
- Frank Rossi
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