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Article: `BEST' MOVIE LIST MISSES TOO MANY.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 21, 1998
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Byline: Russell Baker The New York Times
To whip up some chatter about movies, the American Film Institute polled 1,500 ``prominent'' Americans to select the 100 best American films of all time, and the results are in. So let's chatter:
Will no one save us from It's a Wonderful Life? Not those prominent Americans.
This sentimental turkey stuffing, which is served up every December with all the rest of Christmas' inescapable fixins, finished at No. 11 in the vote.
It first appeared in 1946 when a generation hardened to reality by the Depression and war let it pass without saluting.
They knew from bitter experience that the ...