The First Post (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
by Sean Connery and Murray Grigor, Weidenfeld, 312pp, £20"A multi-millionaire socialist, a republican Knight of the Realm, a proud Scotsman long-resident in the tax haven of the Bahamas, Sir…
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
'Nights in Rodanthe' {1halfstars} (Randy Cordova) Lame soap opera about two lonely people who come together during a weekend at a coastal inn. If this were made in the '50s, it might have starred Lana Turner and John Gavin; these days, we get Diane Lane and Richard Gere,the latter looking like a Ralph Lauren ad come to life. (PG-13 - 97 minutes) S.
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
"She was worth a stare. She was trouble." That's Bogie on Bacall, in The Big Sleep, but all you need to know is, it's noir. The noir dame is one of the most awesome female archetypes out there.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
It has long been reckoned that blondes have more fun - but now they are thought to be more confident and amorous too.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Q: I would like to know what was the name of the well-known orchestra leader who made the popular song "Begin the Beguine." I saw it played in Cleveland at the Palace Theater in the '60s. Was he a horn player?
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Film Reviews: A deliriously camp spectacle reveling in mid-1960s aesthetics, "The Seed of Discord" is Pappi Corsicato's return to the over-the-top stylizations that made his earlier films such fun.
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Sex scenes in period drama can't rescue this sumptuous piece from pointlessness
Culture Parody Center (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Readers, Shaviro got me thinking about political PR, an issue of enormous importance in this age of total image-mediation. (This post is also meant as a platform where the participants of a recent blawg skirmish may feed the Parody Center with malevolent Affect) And I gotta tell you Obama’s PR totally sucks. Not only does his [...]
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Our favorite film blogger and southern belle of belle lettres, the Siren, has posted her contribution to Goatdog's Movies About Movies Blogathon. The Siren's written about The Bad and the Beautiful starring Kirk Douglas as a manipulative monster of a movie studio exec and Lana Turner, Dick Powell, Gilbert Roland and others as doomed and self-destructive victims of Douglas' ego, all of whom may remind...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
1930 Born August 25 in Edinburgh.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
LONDON-- The finish line is looming for the greyhounds of Walthamstow Stadium, a London landmark frequented by everyone from Winston Churchill to Brad Pitt and where David Beckham worked as a teenager.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
The finish line is looming for the greyhounds of Walthamstow Stadium, a London landmark frequented by everyone from Winston Churchill to Brad Pitt and where David Beckham worked as a teenager.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
The finish line is looming for the greyhounds of Walthamstow Stadium, a London landmark frequented by everyone from Winston Churchill to Brad Pitt and where David Beckham worked as a teenager.
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
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