Subject: Robert Butler

• The Worst Film Quotes of the Year!

  January 11, 2008

• The Star Meets Olan Mills: Final Episode

  February 11, 2008

• A few words in defense of Spike Lee

  September 26, 2008

• Names of laid-off Star staffers trickling out

  The mood at The Kansas City Star is sour and grim. The future is both certain and uncertain for the unlucky ones whose numbers were called. The names of the laid-off reporters continue to trickle out -- telling friends or posting status updates on Facebook. Gone are City Hall reporter DeAnn Smith, books editor John Mark Eberhart and the hardworking Ward Triplett. Chopped to part time are movie critic Robert Butler and deputy features editor Carol Powers. Columnist Mike Hendricks lost a third of

  March 16, 2009

• Fox 4's Shawn Edwards isn't just a blurb whore

  April 3, 2008

• When The Godfather played to an empty room

  This week's column involves Mark One Electric Co. and its questionable eligibility for affirmative-action programs. Carl "Red" Privitera incorporated the business 1974, which is run today by his daughter, Rosana Privitera Biondo.Searching for background information on Mark One, I came across a Kansas City Star story by Robert Butler on the 25th anniversary of the release of The Godfather. Butler marked the occasion by recalling the film's 1972 premiere in Kansas City.As my colleague Charles Ferr

  June 10, 2009