Hard on the heels of the New York Times Store comes Condé Nast beginning to circle the drain, opening up its archives and now selling all manner of art, photos and images featured over the years in its magazines, including...
Ladies' Day2:50am Friday, 16 Oct 2009 Repeat G A star baseball pitcher has trouble on the mound as he is distracted by thoughts of his new wife. The other players' wives plan to kidnap her. CAST: Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelley DIR: Leslie Goodwins (1943)
Mexican Spitfire's Baby1:45am Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 Repeat PG The Spitfire befriends a lion cub when she goes to stay in Arizona. CAST: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Buddy Rogers, Elisabeth Risdon DIR: Leslie Goodwins (1941)
By Willie Potts For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. Following is a list of a few movies that you can get using a movie download site. Richard The 3rd: Brilliant resetting of Shakespeare's tirade of multiple slays and partisan captivate in 1930s England, throughout...
In the past you had to go to a store if you wanted to rent or buy a movie. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. You will find just about any movie you want with a good movie download site, below is a small sample.
Well, possums, it was quite a night for Mexican food in the world of Top Chef . On the plus side, un gringo bien chingón , Rick Bayless, won Top Chef Masters with his rendition of the Oaxacan black mole . (We’ll savor the victory for a few days before ungratefully discussing just how patronizing the franchise’s attitude to Mexican food seems to be.) But before that, we had to suffer...
'The Gaucho' at the National Gallery of Art Silent-screen stars Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez team up for a swashbuckling Argentine adventure. Pianist Ben Model accompanies the film, freshly restored to its 1927 glory.
The 14th Annual Silent Film Festival July 10-12, 2009, at the Historic Castro Theater. As I stated elsewhere , this is one of the finest festival events that I attend in the Bay Area. Though there were moments that were nearly out-of-body experiences , there were a number of truly exceptional moments, too. Opening night began with THE GAUCHO (dir. F. Richard Jones, US, 1927, 120 mins.), a star vehicle...
Poor Lupe. Always made to feel at her own weddings that she's not as good as the other woman who's catching her husband's longing glances. If it was "white lace she was chasing", at least Lupe wore it in style. Not just a bridal veil, but a doña 's mantilla .
Introducing the opening night film of the 14th edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival , Jeffrey Vance —author of Douglas Fairbanks (University of California Press, 2008) —offered: “Judging by this enormous turnout tonight, I’m inclined to think that talking films are just a passing fad.” One of the great pleasures of Douglas Fairbanks ’ career, Vance specified,...
An interview with pianist Rodney Sauer on the scoring of “The Gaucho” starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka Opening tonight at the Castro Theatre is the 14th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival and its glorious treatment of The Gaucho. Produced in 1927 and directed by F. Richard [...]
"To what do I attribute my success? I think, simply, I'm different. I'm not beautiful, but I have lovely eyes and I know exactly what to do with them. Even though the public thinks I'm a pretty wild girl, I'm really not. I'm just me Lupe Vélez, a simple and natural Lupe. If I'm happy, I dance and sing. And if something angers me, I scream and sob, and I feel a little better. Someone named...
Scene-stealing co-star of Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan flicks, Hollywood insider over five debauched decades, Cheeta – that chimpanzee prince among primates – has written his tell-all, naming-names memoirs. Or rather, James Lever has crafted a wonderfully witty pastiche of the Tinseltown-unveiled confession.