Extra Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list! AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Gone with the Wind (1939) “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara. The Godfather (1972) “I’m...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
He was "renowned for taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson and Burt Reynolds."...
tabloid baby (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
If Wikipedia and other sources are to be believed, the New York Times left some very colorful-- and essential facts out of its obituary for Midwest theatre impresario John Kenley.The Times notes that Kenley, who died October 23rd at an astonishing 103, made his name "taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson...
Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
25 Most Memorable Movie Quotes WHAT ARE THE 25 MOST MEMORABLE MOVIE QUOTES of ALL TIME? IN 2005, the American Film Institute announced the 100 most memorable movie quotes of all time. The jury was composed of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians. Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. The American...
Connecting.the.Dots (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
At 83, Hugh Hefner in his Mansion is looking more like the faded silent-movie star of "Sunset Boulevard" than the host of the most swinging venue of the past century. As a one-time draftee to be his successor as editor of Playboy 40 years ago, I'm bemused to see him, still in his trademark pajamas, popping Viagra and putting on a brave front even as the culture passes him by. "This is...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
"I am big. It's the pictures that got small," Gloria Swanson declaimed in "Sunset Boulevard." In the Japan film industry, though, the pictures are getting bigger — gargantuan, in fact. Examples include the "Death Note" duology, the "20-seiki Shonen" ("20th Century Boys") trilogy, and "Ai no Mukidashi" ("Love Exposure"). Sion...
TONY Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Relax here tonight: Church of the Heavenly Rest café
sweasel.com (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
I’ll be honest: I don’t have any insights into Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS and the tossing thereof. I just wanted to draw Dan Rather with a banana clamped to his head. I hate Dan Rather. Hate him like Gloria Swanson hated the talkies. Always have done. There’s something humorless and plodding and mean about him. And [...]
Jane Is The One (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
when I saw Mandy make the original speech I was reminded of Gloria Swanson in 'Sunset Boulevard'. Cannot imagine why.
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen. © Condé Nast Publications Inc. / Courtesy George Eastman House We can’t seem to get enough of looking at people, and famous faces are a whole other matter. Whether it’s subconsciously analyzing bone structure to gauge attractiveness, or searching for the unspoken in an subtle expression, we are captivated by images of each other, with celebrities...
the hackneyist (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Dune ; Exhibition of a film of a book that was never made. 17th September - 25th October The Drawing Room Tannery Arts Brunswick Wharf 55 Laburnum Street, London E2 In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Dune from Arthur P Jacobs. Jodorowsky was set to direct. In 1975, Jodorowsky planned to film the story as a ten hour feature, in collaboration with...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Joseph P Kennedy's Hollywood YearsBy Cari BeauchampReviewed by - 10 September 2009Family guyWhen John F Kennedy ran for US president in 1960, to many his greatest liability was being Catholic; it was said that electing him meant the pope would be running the country. What worried those who knew politics, however, was that his father might be pulling the strings. A smiling thief, a liar and a bully,...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
that sure looks like a vial of poison in her paw. gloria swanson, silent screen superstar and one of the very first health food champions. i actually saw her at a screening in the 70's and she looked mysteriously smooth, draped in pale blue.
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Did you know that Alejandro Jodorowsky was originally going direct Dune? (I could swear I’d written about this here before, but I apparently haven’t. For this, I am sorry.) In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Dune from Arthur P. Jacobs. Jodorowsky was set to direct. In 1975, [...] Related posts: David Lynch making new films with Herzog,...
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
" The Lost Weekend " ( Billy Wilder , 1945) Don Birnam ( Ray Milland ) is an aspiring writer, drunk and sober, caught in a self-defeating loop of dependence and neurosis. His dependence on, and devotion to, alcohol has put him into a tail-spin of false confidence and self-loathing where his dreams are only out of reach because he can't pick himself off the floor. His "rye" attitude...
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