When Bonnie and Clyde arrived in 1967, it sparked a fierce debate among film critics. At the center of that debate was New York Times critic Bosley Crowther, who publicly opposed the film even as its reputation grew. This episode looks at Crowther’s battle with the movie, the critics who disagreed with him, and what the controversy reveals about a changing era in American cinema.

Times Announcement. “Crowther Named Critic Emeritus; Renata Adler of New Yorker to Review Films for Times.” The New York Times, November 20, 1967.

Crowther, Bosley. “Run, Bonnie and Clyde: Run, Bonnie.” The New York Times, September 3, 1967. ProQuest.

Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Arrives: Careers of Murderers Pictured as Farce.” The New York Times, August 14, 1967. ProQuest.

Crowther, Bosley. “Shoot-’Em-Up Film Opens World Fete.” The New York Times, August 7, 1967. ProQuest.

Harris, Mark. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.

Lubow, Arthur. “Renata Adler Is Making Enemies Again.” The New York Times, January 16, 2000.

Martin, Charlie. “The Saga of Bosley Crowther: That Time Film Criticism Got Turned….” Medium.

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The making of the quirky heist comedy The Linguini Incident is not a pleasant memory for writer-director Richard Shepard. Yes, he had a great cast including David Bowie and Rosana Arquette. He also was under funded and overwhelmed and eventually lost final cut. However, the sting of this failure never fully left him and thirty years later he set out to correct it. Shepard and Linguini Incident co-star Eszter Balint help tell this story of a missed opportunity and what it means to reclaim your past.

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David Bowie - Today Show (USA TV) - INTERVIEW ABOUT THE LINGUINI INCIDENT - 28 April 1992

David Bowie - Good Morning America - Interview On The Set Of The Linguini Incident

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Season 2 of Closing Night is finally here—the theater history podcast that takes you behind the curtain to uncover stories about famous and forgotten Broadway show that closed too soon. While season 1 focused on musicals that came and went from the Marquis Theatre, this season host Patrick Oliver Jones is tackling a whole new kind of theatrical heartbreak: shows that never actually opened on Broadway.

These are the productions that fizzled out during out-of-town tryouts or preview performances, including Lone Star Love, The Little Prince and the Aviator, Lolita, My Love, Let My People Come, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, among others. Episodes start at the end of January and will drop once a month throughout the year, with the first episode being all about Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge, which was actually slated to open at the Marquis Theatre but was canceled after a disastrous run in Washington, DC.

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