Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) carried in him the very spirit of American independent filmmaking. A longtime New Yorker and lifelong workhorse he began as a newspaper copyboy at age 12, was a crime reporter by 17, wrote his first of a dozen pulp novels at 22 – with titles like Test Tube Baby and Burn Baby Burn – his first of many screenplays at 24, fought in the United States Infantry in the Second World War, and began his directorial career – which would total 26 films across four decades – in 1949 with the western I Shot Jesse James.
A maverick in the confines of b-production his work spanned genres and styles but often sprang from the worlds of pulp violence, tabloid expose, and social protest, drawing from his journalistic sense and experiences on the crime beat, as well as war stories, which he would explore in films set in Europe, Korea, and Vietnam.
getting warmer. i think it s been a great series, frankly. i have enjoyed every one of them. [ applause ] thank you. okay. and you re a great crowd, by the way. you re here, you re on time. we don t always have that. so this morning will be the last of our series out of courtesy to our speaker if you d be kind enough to turn off your pdas and cell phones, that would be a help. it can interfere with the amplification. by the way, one of the things that did come up today, there were several inquiries at the back about our other programs and what we have at the museum, you can certainly put your yourself on our e-mail list, get our e-mail blast, we put out a communique every three months on all the programs that are coming and that would include things like the smithsonian series, and that s a good way to get early notification of what s upcoming and what you might want to attend. so we have this morning a subject, another celebrity spy, and celebrity spies are always very con
shaken up but okay. she tweets her fans from the ambulance. a good friday morning, everyone. yesterday morning at this time, oil was still spewing into the gulf of mexico. now, for the first time in three months, the live picture america has been fixated on is clear. at least for now. that eyewitness in the control room, the bp control room, tells the washington post, there were back slaps and cheers as the image became clearer. he also said, robin, that the pressure remained just under 7,000 psi. that s a good sign. but not quite as high as scientists were hoping for. white house officials i spoke with overnight say it s a gray area they have to keep an eye on. and the tests will continue every six hours for the next couple days. big news out of washington this morning. senate passage of president obama s financial reform bill. we ll get to that debate, in a minute. over what it means. that isn t the only thing shaking the capital this morning. there was a small ea
and newly released that he is broke. and pink slams into the ground during a concert. shaken up but okay. she tweets her fans from the ambulance. a good friday morning, everyone. yesterday morning at this time, oil was still spewing into the gulf of mexico. now, for the first time in three months, the live picture america has been fixated on is clear. at least for now. that eyewitness in the control room, the bp control room, tells the washington post, there were back slaps and cheers as the image became clearer. and just under 7,000 psi. that s a good sign. but not quite as high as scientists were hoping for. white house officials i spoke with overnight say it s a gray area they have to keep an eye on. and the tests will continue every six hours for the next couple days. big news out of washington this morning. senate passage of president obama s financial reform bill. we ll get to that debate, in a minute. that isn t the only thing shaking the capital this morni