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Ring Lardner is best known for his short stories about Jack Keefe, a baseball player, and his famous syndicated columns, written between bouts of heavy drinking..

Once upon a time in Hollywood, and elsewhere, Ring Lardner's and Joe E. Brown's characters were morally valued. Brown played Lardner's Elmer the Great in 1933.

Ring Lardner and Joe E. Brown combined talents on two baseball films, Elmer the Great, and Alibi Ike, the former a smash hit. Both were consummate sports stories.

At a young age, Joe E. Brown, born in Holgate, Ohio and a Toledo native, as well, nearly gave up his pursuit of film to play baseball. Two Lardner plays changed that.

Maltz was an author, screenwriter and Hollywood Ten Member. He stood up to Congressional witch-hunt and chose personal integrity over his promising film career.

This month offers an arresting group of comedies ranging from a classic collection of cops in the 1980's Police Academy movies to 2009's mall cop film Observe and Report.

Reviews for Fireman, Save My Child called the baseball picture Joe E.'s best effort to date. Two more baseball farces followed to put Brown back on film's Top Ten.

The Nantucket Film Festival offers film lovers an intimate island setting and the opportunity to experience the stories and styles of today's top screenwriters.

Karl F. Cohen showcases Brainwashed! Cartoons that Tell Us What to Think at the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival