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girlfriday (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
*****SPOILER ALERT***** FROM TONIGHT'S PROJECT RUNWAY It was pretty obvious from before they spent their 300 dollars at Mood that Christopher and Gordana were the weakest of the remaining 5 contestants on Season 6 of Project Runway . I did like how they made you think that the judges might just possibly overlook skill and put a designers humble beginnings at the forefront of their choices for the top...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
If you're a Pistons fan, you probably know the team moved to Detroit from Ft. Wayne, Ind. You might even know the move came before the 1957-58 season. Here's something you might not know: That wasn't Detroit's first NBA franchise.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Norwegian cruises to LPGA Canadian Women's Open victory, with a little encouragement from Tiger Woods
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Isomatic UK Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
On Thursday evening we went to the Berrylands Hotel in Surbiton, where Brian White's Magna jazz band performs every week. Brian White was absent so Tony Pyke (pictured with Geoff Cole's Hot Five at the Rutland arms) took his place on Alto Sax and Clarinet. Denny Ilett was due to play cornet or trumpet but failed to materialise. Our favourite numbers were: Peter Winn's request Cheek to Cheek , written...
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Bjørn Stærk's Max 256 Blog (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
The Lady Eve (1941, USA) - Barbara Stanwyck goes on the prowl on a cruise ship, looking for a sucker to swindle, and finds Henry Fonda, a naive millionaire. The production code means that no matter how delightfully crooked Stanwyck is, she and Fonda must eventually fall in love and get married and settle down forever and ever until death does them apart, but the route by which the movie fullfils that...
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Redtree Times (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
Recently, in his blog A Dark Planet, David Terrenoire wrote about the practice of early morning meditation he has recently taken up in hopes of lowering his blood pressure. Although he is trying to achieve a completely silent mind, he finds himself listening to an inner dialogue that sounds like Larry King twittering, which is [...]
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core77.com (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
The Model A made its debut in 1949. The rest of the fleet was numbered, in order. Sonja Henie took Nos. 2 and 3 for her ice show. No. 9,056, almost complete, is headed to a rink in Monterrey, Mexico. "It's a small, family-owned business," Mr. Zamboni said. "It's got a name, but it's sure got a small niche in a small industry when you get down to it." The Zamboni ON THE COVER of...
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 05/16/2009
Recommended Three-time Olympic Champion Sonja Henie's penultimate starring role, It's a Pleasure! (1945) is a better-than-you'd-expect musical melodrama featuring some fine three-strip Technicolor photography nicely transferred for this DVD release. It's basically "A Star Is Born - On Ice!" with Sonja as an on-her-way-up figure skater who latches onto an alcoholic, on-his-way-down hockey...
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Rhapsodyinbooks's Weblog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
“Chattanooga Choo Choo” is a big-band/swing song which was featured in the 1941 movie “Sun Valley Serenade,” starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, and Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. It was performed in the film as two back-to-back production numbers. The first, featuring white artists, had vocals by Tex Beneke, Paula Kelly, and the Modernaires. [...]
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DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 05/03/2009
Three handsome Technicolor restorations from MGM DVD slipped in under cover of darkness this week: the ungainly but gorgeously designed “The Goldwyn Follies” (1938), Howard Hawks’s lackadaisical but gorgeously shot 1948 “A Song Is Born” (fodder for those jazz buffs who have commandeered the Oshima thread, but not too much, I hope), and William [...]
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
The World Figure Skating Championships, held yesterday in Los Angeles, features some of the best ice costumes we've ever seen. 'Nuff said. This On the Town special is one of the best! Somehow a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Material Interest (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Horses under the hood, sure—but what about the charming creatures on top of it? For these, there's Margery Krevsky's new book, Sirens of Chrome, a look at the ladies who have made car shows great for the better part of...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/25/2009
I've been going regularly to Hampton Court's wonderful ice rink. I'm hopeless at skating, but you have more laughs that way, falling over and watching other people fall over. You see Dancing On Ice or [the Norwegian figure skater] Sonja Henie with her fur pom-poms and they warp your mind. You think, "I can do that." Then you spend an hour clinging to the barrier.
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