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	Print Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LaSalle's lecture at Copia is a mere five days before the Academy Awards telecast March 5.
		LaSalle has reviewed films for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1985 and was appointed the newspaper's sole film critic in 2002.
		Tickets for the LaSalle Lecture are $25 or $22.50 for Copia members, students (with student ID) and seniors, and may be purchased at the Copia box office.
	www.napavalleyregister.com /articles/2006/02/26/features/arts_and_entertainment/iq_3310820.prt (214 words)

	Greenwich Village Gazette: Columns: Brazil: Ernest Barteldes
		LaSalle agreed to give me, via e-mail, an exclusive interview, in which he talks about his book, pre-code films, a little of his personal life and about the films he is to introduce in June.
		Mick LaSalle: I interviewed Loretta Young in 1998, over the phone, in connection with a screening of her pre-Code films in San Francisco, for an interview in the Chronicle.
		Mick LaSalle: I don't know what the ending was supposed to be, and I haven't seen the movie in many years, so I don't know.
	www.gvny.com /columns/barteldes/barteldes05-11-01.html (1809 words)

	Metacritic: Movie Reviews by Critic and Publication
		Mick LaSalle is the smartest and the most readable critic out there, and his Sunday column is a blast.
		No, Mick LaSalle is a great critic, not because he's a liberal or a conservative (whatever he is) and not because he liked or didn't like some irate readers favorite movie 100 yearas ago.
		Mick LaSalle's style is intimidating to the stupid and bracing to the intelligent.
	www.metacritic.com /movie/publications/sanfranciscochronicle/lasallemick (2357 words)

	Mick LaSalle: Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man - Bøger
		LaSalle may have been blinded by Cruise's famous smile and failed to give a more accurate portrayal of the actor's career.
		Mick LaSalle has done a fine job in recording the accomplishments of actresses before the pre code "censorship" era (1929-1934 or thereabouts!).
		LaSalle demonstrates that silent films were really productions of the Victorian era; men were expected to have sobriety and character.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/0312283113 (978 words)

	Reason: Hollywood’s Second Sex: Women and the movies
		All three authors make strong cases on behalf of their period while demeaning what was to come later, and all are sometimes blind to the flaws of the era they are celebrating.
		LaSalle gives a useful illustration: Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933) ends with Kay Francis affirming her place as both a woman and a professional, while The Flame Within (1935) ends with Ann Harding renouncing her career as a psychiatrist to marry a man who doesn’t approve of her working.
		LaSalle’s fine book, both chatty and informative, demonstrates that there was something lost in Hollywood films for over three decades.
	www.reason.com /0203/cr.sk.hollywoods.shtml (3058 words)

	Scripps Howard News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dear Mick LaSalle: You did a tremendous job of doing a critical and thoughtful review of "Revenge of the Sith" without being mean and nasty.
		LaSalle: I just watched "Revenge of the Sith" and I have to tell you the plot was anything but hard to understand.
		LaSalle: I have a movie concern, and I seem to be the Lone Ranger here: In my opinion, Alfred Hitchcock is vastly overrated.
	www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=CRITIC-FILM-06-21-05 (629 words)

	ASK MICK LASALLE, Chronicle Movie Critic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LaSalle: Your response to Mike Chihutski, that he was probably remembering a scene from another movie in which a head was delivered on a silver platter, struck me as all too likely.
		LaSalle: I think your correspondent was confusing the Rita Hayworth-Stewart Granger film "Salome" (1953) with Nicholas Ray's "King of Kings." In the former, you do get to see the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter.
		Dear Mick LaSalle: I haven't seen "United 93," but it seems to me that it is more powerful to show the terrorists as human beings, not just stock-company villains.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/21/PKGNSGU6NI1.DTL&feed=rss.moviereviews (649 words)

	SFist: Mick LaSalle Blows It Again (Surprise!)
		But LaSalle's review reveals such a supreme lack of understanding about animation that true aficionados of the artform and talented industry pros are dumbfounded by LaSalle's astoundingly clueless review.
		LaSalle proudly trumpets his total ignorance about everything, and in that respect he's a perfect poster boy for his misbegotten journalistic horror of an employer.
		I think Mick LaSalle is a national treasure.
	www.sfist.com /archives/2006/08/01/mick_lasalle_blows_it_again_surprise.php (700 words)

	Hollywood's second sex: Women and the movies. . - Culture & Reviews - book review Reason - Find Articles
		Mick LaSalle's Complicated Women tries to rehabilitate the pictures made in the freewheeling pre-Code era, i.e., before Joseph Breen took over the Production Code Administration in July 1934 and transformed moviemaking.
		All three authors make strong cases on behalf of their period wh ile demeaning what was to come later, and all are sometimes blind to the flaws of the era they are celebrating.
		LaSalle, film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, begins his account in the transitional decade of the 1920s, when the most popular screen images of women were the voracious vamp and the innocent ingenue.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_10_33/ai_83097674 (934 words)

	Life With Alacrity: Extrapolative Hostility in the Online Medium
		Mick LaSalle, an acerbic movie reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, writes a regular column "Ask Mick LaSalle" in the Sunday paper, where he sometimes allows others to vent their displeasure at his movie reviews.
		Understanding this lets me add another widget to my social software toolbox: when a group process results in a hostile message, try to determine if the author is actually reacting to what you said or if their hostility is based on extrapolating to "obvious" generalities.
		Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle has a humble theory that makes a...
	www.lifewithalacrity.com /2005/07/extrapolative_h.html (1251 words)

	San Francisco magazine
		When it's the Chron's Mick LaSalle, that whipping boy of the San Francisco film elite and intelligentsia (if he pans a film, they go see it).
		LaSalle, a self-described "Italian American from Staten Island," went by Al until recently.
		According to LaSalle, Parrish was troubled by the ethics of journalists using pen names.
	www.sanfran.com /archives/view_story/6 (351 words)

	Scripps Howard News Service
		LaSalle: Bette Davis' "The Letter" was coming out on DVD, with the 1929 Paramount version with Jeanne Eagels included as a bonus feature.
		Dear Mick: I fell in love with Jane Fonda her when I saw "Tall Story" and have been in love with her ever since.
		Dear Mick LaSalle: You said "Dogville" is great if you can sit through the first 45 minutes.
	www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=CRITIC-FILM-05-31-05 (606 words)

	Amazon.com: Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood: Books: Mick LaSalle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		However, LaSalle's main purpose is to celebrate the short-lived era of "complicated women," as personified by the early films of Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, and others.
		Besides the engaging writing style LaSalle had three things going for him in writing this book: a love of film, a love of women and a willingness to conduct the research that would do their pre-code story justice.
		LaSalle's love of women is particularly evident as he rhapsodizes about Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo whose stories are the centerpiece of "Complicated Women." They are the stars of this story.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312284314?v=glance (2178 words)

	Mick LaSalle: SF Chronicle Film Critic or the Antichrist?
		Mick’s been married for seven years to the playwright Amy Freed, who was the 1998 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama (her new play, The Beard of Avon, will have its SF premiere at ACT in January.)
		Mick’s from Staten Island, and got a B.A. in English from Rutgers and an M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina, where he was a film critic for the school paper.
		LaSalle what this world is coming to when the publisher of the SF Herald and the movie critic of the SF Chronicle can walk down the street without being mobbed by adoring fans, or at least recognized.
	www.sfherald.com /columnists/mahoney/mahoney06.html (1026 words)

	mick - News von PLAZOO, der RSS und News Feed Suchmaschine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mick Weinstein submits: Excerpt from our One Page Annotated Wall Street Journal Summary (receive it by email every morning by signing up here): In Gulf of Mexico, Industry Closes In On New Oil Source and BP Hires Former Judge To Be U.S. Ombudsman Summary: Chevron, Devon Energy and Statoil are ...
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	www.plazoo.com /de/tags/mick (550 words)

	Mick LaSalle's Complicated Women
		Mick LaSalle's version differs from the others in that it takes on the period from the vantage point of the female stars who dominated the years between 1929 and 1934, the year the censors struck.
		Her final movie before the Code struck, her masterpiece according to LaSalle, Queen Christiana (1934), for example, deals with the sexually ambiguous seventeenth-century Swedish queen whose abdication of power is seen as a personal triumph, the individual's right to a life of her own.
		LaSalle's statement (quoted earlier) about Norma Shearer movies prompting the audience to change its mind about what is ultimately right or wrong is what art has always been all about.
	www.stevencscheer.com /lasalle.htm (791 words)

	Amazon.com: Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man: Books: Mick LaSalle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One would be remiss, San Francisco Chronicle film critic LaSalle points out, in taking the sappy naivete of many of the Hollywood films of the 1930s, 40s and 50s as a faithful barometer of a more innocent time.
		LaSalle (Complicated Women) outlines the heyday of the pre-Code era, which lasted from the advent of talkies in 1929 until mid-1934, when actors such as Jimmy Cagney, Lon Chaney and Clark Gable made their mark playing flawed, tough, yet respectable characters.
		LaSalle, a film critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, believes that the leading men of Hollywood's pre-Code era represent a distinct break from their wimpy or exaggeratedly heroic predecessors in the silent era.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312283113?v=glance (2201 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
		For LaSalle, the major draw of these films is their celebration of women’s uninhibited sexuality, which he says ended in 1934 and only returned in force in 1968, when the Code finally cracked.
		LaSalle does this by including two chapters on modern versions of the pre-Code woman and sprinkling the rest of the book with au courant references.
		A major star of the period and for LaSalle its chief exemplar, Shearer is remembered today mostly for one role, that of the insufferable good wife in George Cukor’s 1939 The Women.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /32/complicated.html (932 words)

	DVD review of Silence, The - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For LaSalle, the film’s lack of a meaty, dramatic plot is a fatal flaw, though he credits the movie with some redeeming aspects.
		He concedes that the director’s “visual palette is rich and (the film is) attractive to the eye” but clearly he doesn’t think that’s enough to make the movie worthy of recommendation.
		LaSalle is entitled to his opinion, of course, but I don’t want to dismiss the “rich visual palette” as a mere afterthought.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/silencethe/16784/3058 (1204 words)

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	www.indeed.com /jobs?q=mick&l=&from=rss (341 words)

	Mill Valley Film Festival : Film Notes
		In celebration of his new book of the same title, San Francisco Chronicle and KGO-TV film critic Mick LaSalle presents this special show of clips and commentary.
		LaSalle revisits a period, brought to a halt when the Production Code took hold in 1934, in which women in American cinema were powerful in ways that might seem way ahead of their time—both onscreen and off.
		LaSalle’s program will include scenes steamy and scintillating, luscious and lascivious—it’s a rare opportunity to see some wonderful clips of many of the early screen’s shining lights.
	www.cafilm.org /Filmnotes/complicatedwomen.html (157 words)

	ASK MICK LASALLE / CHRONICLE MOVIE CRITIC
		Hi Mick: In a recent column you compared movies by decades.
		I wondered if you or anyone had ever decided in what year the greatest number of truly great films were released.
		LaSalle: You mentioned the name of a writer on Western films you thought was -- I'm paraphrasing -- "the best" or "our current best." I meant to write it down and did not.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/20/PKGAB98ANO1.DTL (546 words)

	Animators Not Thrilled With Mick Lasalle - Cinematical
		Industry professionals have apparently not been shy about letting Lasalle know they think he's an idiot, and that he should have better researched his topic before writing about it.
		On the other hand, Lasalle's review of Monster House is less a critique of the film per se than an exploration of the wonders of the capture-motion animation technique used.
		Lasalle makes it sounds like animator are a dying breed of some sort, when the truth is they are the ones who make Mo-cap films bearable to watch.
	www.cinematical.com /2006/08/02/animators-not-thrilled-with-mick-lasalle (1373 words)

	LETTERS TO DATEBOOK
		Editor -- Mick LaSalle's stellar review of "An Inconvenient Truth" ("The earth is heating up like a meteor from hell," June 2), Al Gore's compelling documentary on global warming, begs for a specific action.
		Editor -- Mick LaSalle's article on Marilyn Monroe and the possible paths her life might have taken was strangely disconcerting ("Happy birthday, Ms.
		It is a bit of an oxymoron to speculate what may have happened after she died.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/09/DDGTEJAK661.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment (971 words)

	Double Nominees: Greta Garbo & Norma Shearer
		Norma Shearer will forever be remembered as the sweet and proper society lady, thanks in large part to her most memorable roles in films such as The Women and The Barrett's of Wimple Street.
		As Mick LaSalle, in his book, Complicated Women argues, her best work was buried under the weight of the Hayes Code in 1934, which prevented Hollywood from making films about liberated women.
		In The Divorcee, Shearer does the unspeakable, and has a one night stand with her husband's best friend when she finds out that he has been unfaithful to her.
	www.angelfire.com /film/robbed/garbo.htm (607 words)

	ASK MICK LASALLE, CHRONICLE MOVIE CRITIC
		Dear Mick LaSalle: Saw "War of the Worlds" in a full theater, and there wasn't a person there who didn't wish Dakota Fanning's character to be killed ASAP.
		LaSalle: I've pretty much had it with John Williams and his music.
		Hey Mick: I recently had a letter to the editor published in Datebook.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/17/PKGJNCETV81.DTL (657 words)

	Direct Textbooks Price Comparison for ISBN 0312283113: Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sadly, sometimes the censored version of a pre-Code film is all that remains.
		It was not until the ratings system came in 1968 that the Code was dismantled. Partly LaSalle's book is a warning, and one especially pointed now that certain forces within the government find censorship in various forms appealing.
		Rather it's a brilliant investigation into the nature of manhood in the twentieth century, using these films as markers along the way.
	www.directtextbook.com /price.php?q=0312283113&p=prices&shippingtime=5 (961 words)

	Stanford Continuing Studies Course: FLM 45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Yet the signature of some directors is so unmistakable that one need only watch a few moments of a movie to know who made it.
		Mick LaSalle is your guide on a 10-week exploration of the film director's art.
		Mick LaSalle, film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, is the author of Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood and Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and The Birth of the Modern Man. He is also the co-author and associate producer of the Complicated Women documentary, which aired on Turner Classic Movies in 2003.
	continuingstudies.stanford.edu /course/FLM45.asp (233 words)

	Cartoon Brew: July 2006 Archives
		The foolishness of commentaries by critics like Mick LaSalle and James Lipton becomes only more evident when they are presented with actual examples of the animation medium's expressive potential.
		LaSalle believes that the animated film has never "had the ability to show the human face.
		It's one thing to have a subjective view of a film—it's another to be so glaringly ignorant of the art form you're discussing to completely dismiss one hundred years of accomplishments and proclaim something so obviously inferior as a technological advance.
	www.cartoonbrew.com /archives/2006_07.html (12781 words)

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