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‘What’s the Matter With Kansas’ liberal filmmakers get a dose of Wichita
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Capitalism |
“I’m a natural-born pessimist,” [documentary author Thomas Frank] said. “People shouldn’t be waving pictures of Ayn Rand and cursing liberals when we’re sinking into a worldwide recession. But the Democrats can’t seem to get a handle on it.
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Library film series gets down to business
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The Fountainhead |
Cinematic portrayals of corporate giants and individual entrepreneurs will be featured in the next free film series at the Kansas City Central Library [....] “The Fountainhead” (1:30 p.m. June 13): An avant-garde architect (Gary Cooper) defies convention and destroys his own buildings when they fail to meet his idealized conceptions. Based on Ayn Rand’s novel.