Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Part of the tragedy of New Moon is that it temporarily wraps Kristen Stewart -- the GenY Marlon Brando/James Dean/Montgomery Clift -- in a shroud of mediocrity. I'm not saying that Stewart has mastered her talent completely, but it's inside her, for sure. It's almost nauseating to see her grimming up and getting through the vampire/ werewolf paces as best she can. She seems tough and resilient enough...
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Coming Up : The Novaks Last night I MCed a MusicBC event here in Vancouver. This event is for artists and managers and labels to all mix, mingle and make important contacts. But there I was in the corner having a discussion about Twilight and why teen girls (and so-not teen girls) love vampires. We all have our theories. I found this question posed in the most recent Esquire magazine: “From...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
How to be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood By William J Mann Faber, 496pp, £20 Review by FRANK BRUNI
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Writer Larry Karaszewski will host a salute to the '70s legend, who died last year. Larry Karaszewski, who co-wrote such films as "Ed Wood" with Scott Alexander, is presenting a salute tonight to 1970s blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore, who died last year at the age of 81, at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre.
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Yesterday Sunset Gun's Kim Morgan posted a very nice q & a interview with Eva Marie Saint. A little too nice, if you ask me. Older showbiz folk tend to either recall their lives in a naked-blunt Klaus Kinski style (i.e., "I'm too old to muddy my memories with even a smidgen of bullshit") or with excessive fondness. Saint lives in the latter camp. Every big name she's worked with (Marlon...
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Kim Morgan - my favorite writer out there (she writes at Sunset Gun) - just flagged me as one of the writers she "reads religiously" this recent interview. I am beyond flattered. First of all: I love her. I want...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
My second film in my Yesterday’s Films, Today’s Issues series is going to be another Elia Kazan film (there was recently a Kazan retro in NYC ). Kazan’s Wild River is a beautiful film starring Lee Remick and Montgomery Clift as a young Tennessee woman named Carol and a government agent named Chuck sent in to get Carol’s grandmother off of her river property so that they can...
Barrie Summy (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
And here we are again--another My Town Monday post! We're back in Hollywood. Fair warning--I crammed so much into my recent weekend away in LA/Hollywood/Beverly Hills that I could write SEVERAL My Town Monday posts on this area! Today, we're at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (circa 1927) where I dragged Famous Author and Newbery Winner Susan Patron and Mary Hayward, Employee Extraordinaire of the Yellow...
Denimology (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Anyone interested to know a little about history on denim then I recommend you check out this piece from the TheSelvedgeYard which as well being very informative features some great photos of Bing Crosby (famous for his denim tuxedo),...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
NATHANIEL ROGERS Nathaniel Rogers would live inside a movie theater but for the poor internet reception. He blogs daily at the Film Experience. YOUR FEATURE PRESENTATION If you’re going to make a film about an aviatrix, it better soar. Mira...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
My favorite actor ever (yes, the tippity top ) would have been turned 89 this past Saturday had he lived. Not that he would have lived to be 89 but still... I'm sad that I forgot. I always feel I should write about him more often. I did try to spur on the communal writing with that blog-a-thon a couple years back. At least there was that. Thankfully Kim Morgan did not forget and wrote up a beautiful...
Plurter Article Sharing (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
This post was published on Plurter.com The following paragraphs contain some nice movie reviews. If you want to download these movies do some searches to find what is out there. Film download searches will include "Online Movies Rental", "DVD Rental", and "Movie Download Sites Reviews". This post was published on Plurter.com
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
It would appear that Stephen Dubner's rock star years failed to prepare him for the ardour of economics groupies.
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Elia Kazan’s “Wild River,” from 1960, screening at Film Forum Oct. 23-29, is so strange and beautiful that critics have called it a neglected masterpiece. If the movie isn’t exactly that, it’s certainly one of the most resonantly self-critical events in . . .
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Kim Morgan reminds me that yesterday was the birthday of Montgomery Clift. Her essay is not to be missed. But I could say that about every one of her posts. Kim writes: Clift’s eyes held secrets, and not merely...
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