Mark Andrejevic requests: > for a class I'm teaching, I'm trying to come up with a list of movies that > have as their villains corrupt/monopolistic media moguls (who work in any > medium: film, TV, print, etc.). Bankers and the oil industry gets nailed all > the time, but I know there are movies out there in which the evildoers are > media types: I'm just having a hard time coming up with them. I'm interested > in the way in which the media commodify their own self-critique. > Thanks for your thoughts. Here's a few: Edward Arnold as a quasi-fascist publisher/politician in MEET JOHN DOE CITIZEN KANE, of course Angela Lansbury in STATE OF THE UNION Charles Laughton as a murdering publisher in THE CLOCK Jonathan Pryce as an ultra-Murdoch type vs. James Bond in TOMORROW NEVER DIES Michael Rappaport in Spike Lee's BAMBOOZLED Putney Swope in Robert Downey, Sr.'s film Rod Steiger in THE BIG KNIFE vs. screenwriter Jack Palance Jack Palance in Godard's CONTEMPT vs. everybody Ned Beatty in NETWORK the publisher in THE LOST HONOR OF KATARINA BLUM (and the TV remake with Marlo Thomas, THE LOST HONOR OF KATHRYN BECK) Not quite moguls, but still media-based villains: The late "Herb Fuller" in THE GREAT MAN Burt Lancaster's Winchell-like character in THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson, English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu