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We Real Cool" is a poem written in 1959 by poet Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her 1960 book The Bean Eaters, her third collection of poetry. The poem has been featured on broadsides , re-printed in literature textbooks and is widely studied in literature classes.
We Real Cool was received with mixed reviews upon initial release. Sarah Gold of Publishers Weekly commented that hooks was "a writer of extraordinary skill"., but one who "pads out her insights with lengthy quotations from many sources, which thin but don't fully dilute her revolutionary message of love."
Be Cool is a 2005 American crime comedy film based on Elmore Leonard's 1999 novel, which was the sequel to Leonard's 1990 novel Get Shorty.The movie is the sequel to the 1995 film adaptation of Get Shorty, with John Travolta reprising his role and also starring Cedric the Entertainer, Andre Benjamin, Vince Vaughn, Robert Pastorelli, Uma Thurman, James Woods, Christina Milian, Steven Tyler ...
A golden shovel is a poetic form in which the last word of each line forms a second, pre-existing poem (or section thereof), to which the poet is paying homage.. It was created by Terrance Hayes, whose poem "Golden Shovel" (from his 2010 collection Lighthead) [1] is based on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" (which begins with an epigraph that includes the phrase "Golden Shovel").
"Real Cool World" is a song from the soundtrack of the American 1992 animated black comedy fantasy film Cool World. It is performed by British singer-songwriter David Bowie , and was released on 10 August 1992, representing his first new solo material since the dissolution of the band Tin Machine .
Cool Hand Luke opened on October 31, 1967, at Loew's State Theatre in New York City. The proceeds of the premiere went to charities. [39] The film was a box-office success, [40] grossing $16,217,773 in domestic screenings. [41] Variety called Newman's performance "excellent" and the supporting cast "versatile and competent". [42]
Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .
In his 1969 review of the film for The New York Times, Vincent Canby credits Wexler with presenting his audience with powerful imagery through the use of documentary film techniques. He wrote that Medium Cool was "an angry, technically brilliant movie that uses some of the real events of last year the way other movies use real places — as ...