Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (Free subscription) | yesterday
When the Warner Archive announced that they were releasing all sixty-three Joe McDoakes one-reelers in one honkin’ big box set back in October, I put up a little blurb about this on Facebook…and while the reaction was mostly positive, there was a bit of dissension in the ranks. Author James Neibaur, who will forget more about film comedy than I can possibly ever learn, had a particularly...
Grantbridge Street & other misadventures (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
from Sleazy Scandals of the Silver Screen # 1 .
Westword | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Dear Mexican: Whenever I see an ad for a Mexican ramera , they always describe themselves as "spicy." Are Mexican women hiding habaneros in their panochas ? Concha Curious Dear Gabacho: "I wish I could say that 'Mexican Spitfire' Lupe Velez was to ...
Riverfront Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Dear Mexican: Whenever I see an ad for a Mexican ramera, they always describe themselves as "spicy." Are Mexican women hiding habaneros in their panochas? Concha Curious Dear Gabacho: "I wish I could say that 'Mexican Spitfire' Lupe Velez was to blame for the ...
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
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...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
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)
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
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)
Travel (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
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...
CompTIA Network+ (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
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.
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Jackson Homicide Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Michael Jackson in the news - Officer La Toya Jackson's TV show investigates celebrity deaths...
Amuse-Biatch (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
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...
Trouble In Paradise (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in Tugboat Annie 1933 Herbert Marshall and Claudette Colbert in Secrets of a Secretary 1931 Lupe Velez and Lee Tracy in The Half Naked Truth 1933 Kay Francis and David Manners in Man Wanted 1932 John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth Century 1934 Carole Lombard and George Raft in Bolero 1934 Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own 1933 Charles Farrell...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
'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.
Life with Movies and Maxxxxx (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
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...
The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
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 .
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