Preston Sturges and four by Elliott J. Clawson.) Though he had a thirty-year Hollywood career, Sturges' greatest comedies were filmed in a furious five-year burst of activity from 1939 to 1944, during which he turned out "The Great McGinty", "Christmas in July", "The Lady Eve", "Sullivan's Travels", "The Palm Beach Story", "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and "Hail the Conquering Hero". Half a century later, four of these – "The Lady Eve", "Sullivan's Travels", "The Palm Beach Story" and "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" – were chosen by the American Film Institute as being among the 100 funniest American films. The film
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator Australia and Japan. "STOKED" earned critical and popular acclaim, including features in the "New York Times" and "Los Angeles Times", and an interview on National Public Radio’s "Fresh Air". "LA Times" critic Kenneth Turan wrote of film, "Strongly directed and unexpectedly poignant ... An excellent documentary about the compelling dark side of the American dream." The word "stoked" is a popular slang word used by those connected with surfing, skateboarding and BMX biking. It is used to mean pumped up, excited, and ready. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator STOKED: the Rise and Fall of Gator, is a 2003