AboutNell Minow Expertise Movies, especially classic movies, current movies, family movies, and movies for children.
Experience I am the movie critic for Beliefnet and radio stations across the country. I have written about movies for USA Today, Parents, Family Fun, Child, Slate, and Daughters, and am the weekly movie critic for twenty radio stations across the US and in Canada and write weekly parental advisories and some movie reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Kansas City Star. I have appeared on Fox Morning News, the ABC Evening News, CBS This Morning, and NPR, and been profiled in the NY Times, Washingtonian, Chicago Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. My book, The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies, was published by Avon in April 1999 and is now in its second edition. I can answer questions about movies for special interests, especially family concerns, handling questions from kids like "What do I do when he says everyone else has seen it?" to "My daughter got nightmares from a movie --how can I help her?" or "Why does my child want to see the DVD over and over?" to "What's the deal with Pokemon?" I am pretty good with trivia questions about movies, too, not as good with made-for-TV movies or miniseries.
Organizations Broadcast, Online, and Washington DC film critics associations, Internet Entertainment Writers Association
Question Hello! I'm trying to remember a movie I saw on PBS a while back (I'm sure it was a wide release... wasn't just made for PBS). I believe it was from the 60s as I remember the scene settings and costumes being extremely mod and almost pop-arty. Anyway, all I can remember is that it's about a woman who keeps falling in love with brilliant men and they die in wacky circumstances. As morbid as it sounds, it's not, it's a comedy. I feel like I remember it as she keeps trying to marry men who are poor but they become rich and it's their downfall (i.e. she falls in love with a poor painter but he invents robots controlled by symphony music that paint on huge canvases and he's killed when he gets tangled up in them). Eventually the woman ends up with the man she loved in the beginning.
Is this ringing any bells?
Answer That wonderful movie is "What a Way to Go!" with an all-star cast including Shirley Maclaine, Dick van Dyke, Dean Martin, Paul Newman (the artist) and Gene Kelly!
