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Steven Mears

TCM Diary: Robert Benchley

By Steven Mears
September 1, 2017
Learning to laugh: a man of letters who brought his unique brand of humor to the screen

Short Take: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

By Steven Mears
August 30, 2017
(Director: Noah Baumbach, Country/Distributor: USA, Netflix, Opening: October 13)

TCM Diary: None but the Lonely Heart + All Fall Down

By Steven Mears
August 18, 2017
The mother lode: esteemed American playwrights Clifford Odets and William Inge adapted works for the screen that dealt with complicated relationships between sons and mums

Interview: Martin Landau

By Steven Mears
July 17, 2017
In the moment: an unpublished talk with the Academy Award–winning actor

TCM Diary: Brian Donlevy x 2

By Steven Mears
July 3, 2017
Got to be real: the leading man of Vidor’s An American Romance and Lang’s Hangmen Also Die! brought his own unorthodox charm to each

TCM Diary: Raoul Walsh Looks Back

By Steven Mears
June 12, 2017
The good ol’, bad ol’ days: the critical representations of the past in The Strawberry Blonde and They Died with Their Boots On

The Long Way Home

By Steven Mears
May 3, 2017
Five Came Back, Laurent Bouzereau, USA, 2017, Netflix

TCM Diary: Danielle Darrieux

By Steven Mears
May 1, 2017
Luxury import: on the French star's 100th birthday, a look back at her range from finely etched portrayals to klutzy antics

TCM Diary: The Great Man

By Steven Mears
April 21, 2017
One for the history books: José Ferrer directs and stars in a newsroom drama about a journalist who refuses to simply print the legend of a wholesome broadcaster

TCM Diary: Omnibus x 2

By Steven Mears
April 10, 2017
Pick your pleasure: O. Henry’s Full House and Dead of Night offer something for everybody

Short Take: Norman: The 
Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

By Steven Mears
March 3, 2017
(Joseph Cedar, USA/Israel, Sony 
Pictures Classics, Opens April 14)

TCM Diary: Wartime England

By Steven Mears
March 1, 2017
Stay calm and go to the pictures: the grace under fire of Waterloo Bridge, Mrs. Miniver, and The White Cliffs of Dover

TCM Diary: Robert Mitchum x 2

By Steven Mears
February 24, 2017
Let us now praise heavy-lidded men: on the actor's conventionally unconventional turns in The Sundowners and The Story of G.I. Joe

TCM Diary: Ava Gardner x 2

By Steven Mears
February 13, 2017
Something wild: in The Barefoot Contessa and Mogambo, the actress lends some animal intensity to otherwise fanciful plots

TCM Diary: Stars Behind Bars

By Steven Mears
January 23, 2017
Jailbirds: on the felonious pleasures of Barbara Stanwyck in Ladies They Talk About and Eleanor Parker in Caged

TCM Diary: One Potato, Two Potato + A Patch of Blue

By Steven Mears
December 30, 2016
The right to love: how two 1960s dramas portrayed interracial couples

TCM Diary: Myrna Loy’s Not Just Perfect

By Steven Mears
December 1, 2016
Good girl gone bad: in her pre-Code romps, Loy's winsome supporting roles were never thinly drawn

TCM Diary: Two from Kirk Douglas’s Century

By Steven Mears
December 1, 2016
Restless youth: on his 100th birthday, a look back at the actor's turns as rogues and other tortured souls

TCM Diary: Kaufman & Hart, Writers at Work

By Steven Mears
November 21, 2016
The act of creation: The Man Who Came to Dinner and Act One offer some crucial insights into the world’s loneliest profession

TCM Diary: Henry Fonda, American Statesman

By Steven Mears
November 7, 2016
Truth to power: on the Nebraska-born star's irreproachable men in Advise & Consent and The Best Man