Tag: Hogan’s Heroes
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The Transitional M*A*S*H Episode That Had Network Executives Steaming
It’s easy to take the television version of “M*A*S*H” for granted. Based on Robert Altman’s raucous New Hollywood comedy, the series gracefully sanded down the film’s problematic edges and presented a more bracingly humanistic view of combat medical personnel struggling to maintain their sanity while watching one young man after another die on their operating…
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Toronto Film Review: ‘Jojo Rabbit’
Long ago, turning Nazi Germany into a joke was verboten. Or, at least, it seems like it was; it’s actually hard to imagine a time when that was the case. Charlie Chaplin made Hitler into a figure of ridicule in “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940. I grew up watching “Hogan’s Heroes,” which portrayed life…