(For more movie musical magic, check out “ The Wiz. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer perform admirably in the leads, but Rita Moreno and George Chakiris steal the show in support - and won Oscars for their efforts, two of the film’s astonishing ten-statue haul, which included prizes for best picture and best director.

The original stage director and choreographer Jerome Robbins and the filmmaker Robert Wise shared directorial duties, thrillingly placing the show’s songs and dances on the real streets of New York City while using the proximity and intimacy of the camera to render the longing and loss of the story even more poignant. So it’s no surprise that it spawned one of the great movie musicals. Dragons of God: A Journey Through Far-Right America by Coppola, Vincent.

I enjoyed reading this book because I find views contrary to my own fascinating and sometimes challenging, because these questions are important, because, sadly, I too can get sucked into the laughing at the weird and the stereotypical.Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’s ingenious musical adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” which updated its setting and story to the streets and gangs of New York, remains one of the towering achievements of the Broadway stage. It isn't difficult to figure out why the political right, why the Reagans, the Bushes and the Trumps, would pander to the religious right and the nativists, but why do so many people become exclusionary and hostile to outsiders, why do so many turn to supernaturalism and bibliolatry? Best Sellers Deals Store Customer Service New.

A more useful book would tell similar stories and attempt to make sense of them. Dragons of God: A Journey Through Far-Right America by Vincent Coppola (): Vincent Coppola: Books - Amazon.ca. There are a few exceptions when his humanity shows such as his coverage of the Ruby Ridge obscenity when hundreds of federal officers managed to kill a newborn, a boy and their mother such as his treatment of the plight of family farmers. Journalist Vincent Coppola is too prone to focus conveniently on political extremists of the right rather than on the socio-political forces they are reacting to, too prone to make the cheap snide joke at the undereducated underclass. In case you haven't noticed, something is extremely wrong with our society.

Dragons of God by Vincent Coppola