The Grapes of Wrath News

Art from Jim Blashfield's video for "Leave Me Alone" The information overload surrounding the death of Michael Jackson has already reached the suffocation point.

The cast of The Lion in Winter will be performing July 9-25 at The Center for The Arts.

Who was John Martin a oeJacka Feeney? Answer The son of Irish immigrants is better known as film director John Ford .

The defining movie of the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath , based on the John Steinbeck novel, was not released till 1940, 11 years after the Crash of 1929 triggered a wrenching economic downturn.

Re: "Filling the void left by foothill's demise." After living here for 22 years, I have observed that our community has long had an amazing abundance of talent and too few dollars to support them.

Over the years, I've learned a profound lesson about human interaction. Let me give you the bottom line and save you 20 or so years of experience: People usually respond on the same level on which they're approached.

Television schedules are no strangers to sad coincidences. At the time this column was filed, Fox had scheduled an episode of "Mental" guest-starring David Carradine as a patient whose condition inspires Dr.

Having been an avid fan of John Steinbeck's writing for decades, when I first glanced at this picture this morning, my mind warped back to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the Joad family fleeing the Dust Bowl for the promise of a better life in California.

Sir Critic, alias Eric Robinette, reviews movies - both blockbusters and arty stuff - comments on theaters and opines about everything else cinematic.

If there were ever a time to present "The Grapes of Wrath," this would be the year.

A lot of people are starting second careers these days. John Zimmerman of Carol Stream left journalism for two careers: teaching and theater.

"Like father, like son." This old adage really seems to be true in the acting world.

Two-time Tony Award nominee Lois Smith will star in the Hartford Stage production of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate , which begins performances May 28.

Homeless camps now sprawl instead of developments. Unemployment numbers are spilling off front pages into our lives.

Jeff Goble and Laura Riggs star in "The Grapes of Wrath." Share Resources TIMELINE 1939 : The Grapes of Wrath is published, wins the Pulitzer Prize 1940 : Film version released.

In John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath , a tractor in the employ of a faceless "company" knocks the Joad family's house off its foundation once the sharecroppers abandon it and the fields they can no longer afford to work.

From an op-ed piece by Rachel Dry in the Washington Post : Seventy years after John Steinbeck published his best-selling tale of the Joad family's journey from Oklahoma to California along Route 66, "The Grapes of Wrath," required reading that never really went out of style, is suddenly in high demand.

There's a special documentary called BROTHERS IN WAR opening on March 13 in a few markets and then expanding to 20 more markets on March 27.

BOOTLEG FILES 273: 'Chimmie Hicks at the Races' . LAST SEEN: The film is available on the Internet.

The Joads bear a cross of being dubbed lawless in the face of hunger, of being shiftless when all they want is work and a fair chance.