I'm doing this now because our guests will be arriving soon. Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) : De Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from 1930s Hollywood. She is also the last living lead from Gone with the Wind . De Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse (1886-1975), was an actress known by her stage name Lilian Fontaine, and her father, Walter...
Photo by KingoftheHill via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Swimsuit Ice Skating @ Seaside Ice The popular Swimsuit Ice Skating Weekend returns to sunny Seaside Ice --the only outdoor ice skating rink on the beach. Skate in your swimwear from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for the best bathing suit, too! (Of course, you can also skate in your "regular" clothes from 4-10...
Mia Wasikowski, Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is in talks to step into the role of the plain Jane governess who finds true love with Mr. Rochester, that guy with the crazy first wife residing in the attic of his foreboding mansion Thornfield.
Oh, this is some good stuff. I was a little surprised recently when the announcement came down that Cary Fukunaga, who directed the very excellent Sin Nombre, would adapt Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre as his next film. But I liked Sin Nombre so much that I'll watch anything Fukunaga does at this point. Especially now that he's likely to have Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in the...
Btms^ for October 22. Thursday: We like to think of it as Friday Eve! Drink Forecast for Today (DF 42day): Sheltowee Beers 2 toast 2 Daniel Boone, KY explorer, born 2day in 1734. FYI: Boone’s Indian name, Sheltowee, means “Little Turtle”. New Wine Arrivals @ Complimentary Wine Sips & Samples this week at Liquor Barns, Weekdays from 5 to [...]
On this day of Our Lord, 22 October, the following happened: I was born on the day that the British tested a nuclear device in Maralinga, Australia; I was one year old when US forces suffered their first casualty in Vietnam; I was six years old when President Kennedy announced the air and naval blockade of Cuba; I was seven years old (and living in Chicago!) when 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools...
Happy Birthday to Joan Fontaine 92 today The second Mrs. de Winter has really proved Mrs Danvers and the rest of that strange household wrong by surviving well into her 90's. Last night I dreamed I went to Manderlay...
Whether you enjoy Hammers 1966 movie The Witches depends very much on what you expect from your horror movies. If you expect a film dripping with gore that will scare you out of your wits, then dont...
This is a bit unexpected; there have been a lot of possible next projects in the works for Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga. None of them were a new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre. But the deal to put Fukunaga in the director's chair for a new film version of the oft-adapted novel is reportedly close to finished. And thinking about the idea further, I've realized that it actually...
I’ve always had a thing for Hollywood movie star biographies, but I mean old-school Hollywood, like 1930s, 40s and 50s. Some great reads so far have been Ava Gardner - Love is Nothing by Lee Server, Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine, Rita Hayworth: If This Was Happiness by Barbara Leaming and Rock [...]
No one can film a thriller quite like Alfred Hitchcock. Okay, Michael Jackson might give him a run for his money, but let's face it: Hitchcock is one of the quintessential thriller movie directors. You have not witnessed cinema until you have watched Hitchcock.