Mark Kirschenberg tries sound effects for the Arts Radio Network Theatre Project. (Photo by Amy Pasquantonio) Long before television ruled the airwaves, radio was king, including theater broadcasts complete with the aural authenticity of live sound effects. And since everything old is new again, radio theater lives again, thanks to public station WLRN and Arts Radio Network … [Read more...]
The View From Home 78: Hawks classic, Fuller gumshoe, The Residents, Reynolds and what’s in a name
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Only Angels Have Wings: Howard Hawks’ 1939 masterpiece (Criterion, $26.19 Blu-ray, $19.69 DVD) is set in an exoticized South American airfield, where Cary Grant’s emotionally crippled American expat runs a commercial aviation business. He’s accustomed to sending pilots off into treacherous conditions and, often, … [Read more...]