Final Girl (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
From the oh so horrifying yet oh so megacool department: Dolls. Dolls based on random movies like The Innocents ... ...dolls representing the finest in Hag Horror ... Seriously, does it get better than this? THERE EXISTS A DOLL OF JOAN CRAWFORD IN A WHEELCHAIR. And that Bette Davis is totally about to bust out some "Butcha AH, Blanche..." And here's Carrie, a doll featuring "a removable veil of gore"....
The Stamp Collecting Round-Up (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
The National Postal Museum is having a free screening of two stamp related films this Saturday, Jan. 10, in Washington, D.C. Jezebel (1938) stars Bette Davis as a headstrong, independent southern belle who shocks her New Orleans community with her spitfire behavior and a certain red dress. Also starring Henry Fonda, Jezebel won Davis an Academy Award. Often playing complex characters, Davis set the...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Two iconic images, from two classic films: in Now, Voyager, kindly therapist Claude Rains walks in the garden with troubled patient Bette Davis. He's paternal,...
.Art Is Key. (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Bette Davis. Subscribe!
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
"As I was going through my pocket change today," writes Rich Jones, "I could not help but notice. All my newly minted nickels were staring at me." Meanwhile, Sidney Hollar says that when his son, Logan, was taken to San Francisco General with a possible...
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Read this article on the community site â¦is that twenty-something locals and expatriates at TUN not only apparently know but also avidly dance to songs like Kim Carnesâ Bette Davis Eyes that I figured would never survive the dawning of the nineties let alone the new millennium. Iâm not criticizing this, I simply find the popularity of eighties music in Beijing to [...]
Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
I've been fascinated by the career of writer/director Larry Cohen, for many years. His filmography is wild, full of B-movies that started with exploitation classics like Black Caesar (1973), It's Alive (1974), and The Stuff (1985), and then continued with recent genre films like Joel Schumacher's Phone Booth (2002) and the Kim Basinger thriller Cellular (2004). Between these films, he...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
i'm trying to figure out a movie. but i'm not sure if it's a horror or a drama all i remember is a bunch of women wearing all white. and someone finding one of the women hanging. not much to go on....
My Life in Movies (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
Last year was a busy one for movie-viewing, especially within the last 6 months. Altogether, I saw a measly 19 films, a far cry from my usual 50+ count. It’s not all been a wash, though. I saw Bette Davis in Beyond the Forest in a little Parisian art house, saw The Shining again on [...]
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Softer version of Yates classic still satisfying
Homodox (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
In her latest book, Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher notes that her mother Debbie Reynolds was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress for The Unsinkable Molly Brown, losing that year to Julie Andrews for her "multi-layered performance in Mary Poppins---Ibsen's...
Sadly, No! (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
ABOVE: The Gay “Patriot” West Since the rest of the Sadly, No! office staff is apparently off on some tequila-lime-meth bender and likely won’t be back for some days, it has devolved upon to me to keep this place open — and without much time during the day to do it. So let’s go [...]
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
There’s a Yiddish proverb that goes, “Man plans; God laughs.” Well, the Creator has certainly been laughing at me for the past four days. I expect His laughter ended today when I bought a new Sony DVD player at Best Buy for roughly half the cost I paid for my recently retired device. Indeed, if [...]
SocialTech (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Kind of like high 5, but not. Thank you Mark Hawker for memeing me, & posting the rules (although feeling a bit Déjà vu on this one, wondering if black holes are really just meme collisions): Link your original tagger(s),...
Lingerie Planet (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
In the January 2009 issue of Glamour, there is a countdown of The 9 Best One-Liners of All Time. Here are some of our favorites from the list: "Well behaved women seldom make history." ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich "Old age is no place for sissies." ~ Bette Davis "The reward for conformity is that everyone like you except yourself." ~ Rita Mae Brown "If you can't say something good about someone, come,...
