Gene Lantz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Gene Lantz
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“The Company Men”: It’s tough for bosses
January 24, 2011The story of a laid-off worker would have made a much better movie than this one, about three executives dealing with unemployment.
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We still remember you, Frank Little
January 19, 2011This little 118-page booklet is the first time anybody has even tried to bring the facts of Frank Little's life and murder together.
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“Made in Dagenham”: feisty women who know how to fight
January 5, 2011The best scene in the new British film, "Made in Dagenham," comes when a reporter asks Mrs O'Grady how her band of strikers will be able to cope. "We're women!" she explains pointedly.
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Texans face tough fights
January 4, 2011With their two-thirds GOP majority in the Texas House, the right wing hopes to curtail the right of Texas workers to join unions.
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Scott sisters freed!
January 4, 2011Jamie and Gladys Scott received the news on December 29 that their 16-year prison ordeal was over at last: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour commuted their double-life sentences and ordered them out of prison. They were originally...
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Crowded theaters: Quick view of holiday movies
December 29, 2010Jim Lane reviews Black Swan, Tangled, The Tourist and True Grit.
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Lead Belly: A stunning life in pictures
December 22, 2010"Good Night Irene" is one of the best-known songs in American culture. A new book gives us a chance to know the man who wrote it.
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“Fair Game”: Valerie Plame, Iraq truth and lies
December 21, 2010"Fair Game" steadily explains how the truth was twisted, exploded, exploited and finally suppressed, to convince Americans to sacrifice our riches and our children in Iraq.
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