Jean Arthur: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts)
Defamer (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
She's made more bombs than the Krupp Arms Works and yet Hollywood keeps giving her the keys to its kingdom. This weekend, Sandra Bullock is back again in The Blind Side. When she burst into public...
Maryland Politics Watch (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
This press release is a good explanation of the relatively minor changes the County Council made to the existing growth policy. Our compliments to council press officer Neil Greenberger, who did a good job of explaining some complicated issues. Contact: Neil H. Greenberger 240-777-7939 / Jean Arthur 240-777-7934 / Delphine Harriston 240-777-7931 Montgomery Council Approves 2009-11 Growth Policy; Rejects...
Bjørn Stærk's Max 256 Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Ossessione (1943, Italy) - A hobo arrives at a café, and starts seducing the wife of the owner. He succeeds, and now there's a fat, opera-loving husband to get rid off. Based on The Postman Always Rings Twice . Watched it all. The More the Merrier (1943, USA) - The Odd Couple , wartime edition, with Jean Arthur as Jack Lemmon, Charles Coburn as Walter Matthau, and Washington D.C. as New York....
Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
DB here: If you wanted a prototype of some unique visual pleasures of 1930s cinema, you could do worse than pick this innocuous image. It’s perfunctory in narrative terms, merely telling us that Sylvia Day is calling on Bill Smith. Beyond its plot function, though, it’s fun to see. We can enjoy the unfussy modern edge [...]
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Anne Crandall (Irene Dunne) is a widowed smalltown mayor who lives with her father-in-law (Charles Coburn) and high-strung teenage stepdaughter Diana (Mona Freeman). Anne lives a very circumscribed life, always conscious of the townspeople's watchful eyes, as well as how her choices will affect the dramatically inclined Diana. When a lightning bolt knocks the head off the town statue of Anne's late...
Mombian (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Conservative writer Debbie Schlussel, best known for her anti-Islamic vitriol, has a new target: Disney’s Tinkerbell. Schussel criticizes the new look Tink is sporting for her latest movie, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, calling it “butch and silly” and “not that different from Peter Pan.” (Clearly she’s forgotten that women played Peter Pan in [...]
Tea at Trianon (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is an escapade right out of the era of the 1930's in which it takes place. Honestly, I do not remember when I was last so entertained as when watching Guinevere Pettigrew and Delysia Lafosse (what names!) gallivant around London on the edge of the blitz. Based upon the 1938 novel by Winifred Watson , it took seventy years for the book to materialize into a film. Although...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
By Edward Copeland Whenever I prepare to write favorably about Frank Capra, I feel as if I should don a helmet first for the inevitable brickbats that will be launched my way. However, with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington celebrating its 70th birthday, I feel it needs recognition not only because it's a great film but it's a reminder of what a disappointment our elected representatives can be. Oh, if...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
A G.I. and a girl who have known each other three days marry in San Francisco on the eve of the new husband's deployment to serve in WWII. While the husband is overseas, his bride has their baby. THE IMPATIENT YEARS depicts what happens when the family of near-strangers reunite 18 months later. Lee Bowman plays Andy, the soldier, and Jean Arthur is his wife. Charles Coburn plays Arthur's father. This...
Maryland Politics Watch (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Following is the press release from the County Council. Contact: Neil H. Greenberger 240-777-7939 / Jean Arthur 240-777-7934 / Delphine Harriston 240-777-7931 Montgomery County Council to Host Gaithersburg West/N. Potomac/ Darnestown Area Town Hall Meeting On Wednesday, Oct. 7 Residents Invited to Express Their Views on Issues, Ask Questions of Councilmembers at Universities at Shady Grove ROCKVILLE,...
Blog for Iowa (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Labor Day Monday: AFL-CIO Delegates Elect Two Women Officers to Lead Largest Labor Federation Labor Day Monday is a new weekly Labor update on Blog for Iowa. by Tracy Kurowski By unanimous consent, the delegates at the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh elected Liz Shuler as the AFL-CIO’s first woman Secretary-Treasurer on Thursday, September 17, 2009. Sister Shuler is not only the first woman...
Collin Kelley...Modern Confessional (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Hobble Creek Review nominated my poem "Jean Arthur at the Lincoln Memorial" for a Pushcart Prize." Many thanks to editor Justin Evans for publishing the poem and nominating it. The poem happens to be a great segue into the video above of the "Tea Baggers" who marched on D.C. this past weekend. Tens of thousands of them. The video is hilarious and scary, mainly because these...
One Man's Trash . . . (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Hey, Everyone! It's time for another issue of Hobble Creek Review , and I must say, I think you will be pleasantly surprised by the wide variety of voices we have for you this time around. Added to that excitement, this is the first issue published under our new ISSN! Do I hear an Amen? Among what we are presenting to you are two prose entries which take on a tremendous sense of place. The poems we...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
'Bebe Neuwirth is treated like a new cocktail that may be dangerous, if not lethal - so we get a sip of her and not much more' Bebe Neuwirth opens very shortly in a remake of Fame. I have no illusions about this venture, or hopes for it. Neuwirth, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, the child of educated parents, and herself a graduate of Princeton High School and Juilliard, is 51 this year, and it...
behind the curtain (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
I mentioned last month that I saw a great 1930s movie, Easy Living (1937). I must admit that I have been a little bummed with my movie choices lately. Thankfully this movie crossed my path and gave me exactly what...
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