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2006 Stories by Bill Gallo

• Flight of Fancy

  published September 28, 2006

  Anyone who wants to start feeling good about war again--And hey, pilgrim, isn't it about time?--might do well to take in Flyboys. ... More >>

• The Longest Yawn

  published September 14, 2006

  The Rock"--formerly known as "Flex Kavana" and, a bit later, as "Rocky Maivia"--was a practicing actor long before he turned to movies and started... More >>

• Practical Magic

  published August 17, 2006

  If, at this remove, we can imagine Vienna in the late 1890s, we behold a great imperial capital in ferment. Gustav Mahler is not only reinventing... More >>

• London Fog

  published July 27, 2006

  For 35 years, Woody Allen was a long shot to stray into the Bronx or Staten Island, much less the alien reaches of London. The creator of... More >>

• Royal Flush

  published June 8, 2006

  It's clear by now that British director James Marsh regards America as a vaguely amusing madhouse--a reliably primitive, thoroughly benighted... More >>

• All Gave Some

  published May 25, 2006

  The impassioned new documentary Sir! No Sir! never mentions the words "Iraq" or "Afghanistan." It doesn't have to. Unseen and... More >>

• Psycho Cowboy

  published May 18, 2006

  The Old West has vanished, John Wayne is dead, and--this just in--the two most famous ranch hands in America are gay. But there would be no... More >>

• Troubled Water

  published May 18, 2006

  If some religious extremists in India had gotten their way, the gorgeous fury of Deepa Mehta's Water never would have reached the... More >>

• Cold Serial

  published March 16, 2006

  Who knows? Maybe he developed writer's block. Or joined Up With People. Or dropped dead from shock the day Bush got re-elected. In any event, the... More >>

• Hoop Dreams Come True

  published March 16, 2006

  Through the Fire (Disney) He's averaging just nine points in his second season for the Portland Trail Blazers, but considering where... More >>

• Primal Fur

  published February 16, 2006

  Penguins, shmenguins. If you want some new insight into the codes of animal behavior, have a look at Eight Below, an inspirational... More >>

• Kitty Litter

  published February 9, 2006

  This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond, or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy,... More >>

• Ride the Legend

  published February 2, 2006

  Anthony Hopkins lends style points to any movie in which he appears. The thing may be a dog, but the actor who brought the gruesome psychopath... More >>

• Smiles to Go

  published January 19, 2006

  We popcorn-chomping hitchhikers never know who will pick us up on the roadside. In Flirting With Disaster, it was a neurotic Manhattan... More >>

• Tarnished Ivory

  published January 19, 2006

  With the release of The White Countess, the much-honored Merchant Ivory canon is complete. The Bombay-born producer Ismail Merchant... More >>

• The Nude Bomb

  published January 12, 2006

  The studied British theatricality and sharp wit of Mrs. Henderson Presents are likely to make it a favorite among... More >>

• Bet on Black

  published January 12, 2006

  Over the years, moviegoers who double as sports fans have had ample opportunity to pick and choose their favorite miracle--Shoeless Joe Jackson... More >>

• Romeo in the Rough

  published January 12, 2006

  Over the centuries, the legend of Tristram and Iseult has fueled the derring-do of King Arthur, aroused Richard Wagner's operatic thunder, driven... More >>

• Pure Bull

  published January 5, 2006

  What's an unemployed former super spy to do? Faced with a midlife career change, suave Pierce Brosnan seems to have chosen wry self-mockery,... More >>