Neil Gaiman on James Thurber's The 13 Clocks
The acclaimed fantasy writer champions a forgotten masterpiece
"...nights, I read her The 13 Clocks by James Thurber. And James Thurber is still famed as one of..."
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Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
In this goofy and lowbrow Vince Vaughn/Ben Stiller comedy, the good guys are lovable losers and the bad guys have frosted feathered hair and unitards with inflatable codpieces.
"...Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber. Starring: Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn,..."
June 18, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
This story of a milquetoast with a wild imagination stars Ben Stiller and is as pretty as it is busy. Opens 12/25.
"...Based on the 1939 story by James Thurber and adapted by Steve Conrad, this Walter Mitty isn’t..."
Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Skyscraper
The Rock's take on The Towering Inferno is a damp squib
"...Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber. Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller,..."
July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Day Trips
"...All that is left of Thurber is marked by a red-brick smokestack that towers over..."
Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
We're the Millers
This Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis comedy shows some sweetly crude family values.
"...Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber. Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter,..."
Aug. 2, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Red Notice
The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot go comedy-action globe-trotting
"...Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber. Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds, Ritu Arya..."
Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Central Intelligence
Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart make for passable action buddies
"...Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber. Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Amy Ryan, Danielle Nicolet,..."
June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Day Trips
Ghost town a reminder of Texas' industrial history
"...The W.K. Gordon Center in Thurber brings to life the story of the final remains..."
Feb. 22, 2013 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Dvorák's New World Inquiry
How a Czech composer helped America find its
authentic voice
"...In 1892, Jeannette Thurber, wealthy founder of the National Conservatory of Music in..."
Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull
Exhibitionism
God's Trombones: Say Amen, Somebody
"...James Thurber's slightly off-kilter riff on the standard fairy tale makes..."
May 28, 1999 Arts Review
Austin Symphony with Caitlin Tully
Local Arts Reviews
"...through the world of art. The first, Peter Schickele's Thurber's Dogs, was six movements, each based on the composer's..."
Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Sentimental Education
"...Paris are A.J. Liebling's Between Meals and the stories Thurber wrote about the city -- most of them, I..."
Oct. 12, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman
Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup
Texas travel news and more
"...is across the highway from the ghost town of Thurber, the site of the W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial..."
Feb. 2, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
SXSW Panel Recap: Urban Air Mobility: What's Next?
Like winter, personal air transport is coming. But for who?
"...Blakey; the City of Orlando’s Kyle Shepard; and Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief of Aviation International News: This was the quartet..."
March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Bill Murray Plays It Straight – Mostly
Still, you can’t keep Peter Venkman down
"...on another alcohol-themed song – a reading of James Thurber’s “If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox” – but..."
March 19, 2018 Music Post by Dan Gentile
The Full English Is a Gas, Gas, Gas
Bull Garlington gets all Ugly (Hilarious) American with the UK
"...narrative humor that’s often as deft and riotous as Thurber’s “The Night the Bed Fell.”..."
July 4, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Texas Book Festival 2015: The Clasp
The sly debut novel by essayist Sloane Crosley reviewed
"...A Thurber Prize finalist in her previous incarnation as a sharp-tongued..."
Oct. 13, 2015 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones
Day Trips
Eastbound and down from D.C. to San Diego
"...highway is still identifiable by the locally made red Thurber paving bricks. In places, the auto trail – when..."
Nov. 15, 2013 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Remembering David Rakoff
Award-winning humorist loses long battle with cancer
"...His most recent book, 2010's Half Empty, won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Rakoff also scripted and costarred..."
Aug. 10, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones
Austin Film Festival: 'Tenure'
Luke Wilson’s performance is as warm as a cardigan sweater.
"...he really has no interest in being, Professor Charlie Thurber (Luke Wilson) is doing his best to win the..."
Oct. 26, 2009 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta
Beyond Therapy
By billing it as a "neurotic" comedy, Naughty Austin seems to position Beyond Therapy in the Woody Allen movie genre, and its production best compares to the filmmaker's late career efforts -- one that he seemingly wrote during a spare hour in a psychiatrist's waiting room
"...to beat them, Durang joins the people who James Thurber described as "the heavy writers [who] had got sex..."
Sept. 13, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran
SXSW Film Reviews
Low Self-Esteem Girl amounts to nothing terribly special, which makes its Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature all the more baffling.
March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson
Him Write Funny
"If somebody hates me," David Sedaris confesses in an interview with Sarah Hepola, "I just go to pieces. I mean, it doesn't really seem fair that I've made my career making fun of people, and if someone makes fun of me, I fall apart. But that's the way it is."
"...author in the same breath as Mark Twain, James Thurber, and Dorothy Parker. "It's very nice of people to..."
June 16, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola
2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten
"...Petty and her Walter Mitty-ish parlor maid; and James Thurber, whose brilliance I should not have to explain. The..."
Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser
Reissues
"...whimsically obtuse lyricism pitched somewhere 'twixt Barrett and James Thurber, which could lead even the most faithful Hitchcockophile to..."
July 28, 1995 Music Feature
Dougherty Arts Center
