The Hepburn & Tracy Signature Collection (Woman of the Year / Pat and Mike / Adam's Rib / The Spencer Tracy Legacy)
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | yesterday
Much as I like crime novels that explore character and matters of social significance, one of my guilty pleasures continues to be those detective stories which are, in essence, games between the writer and the reader – to see if the reader can pick up the clues to solve the mystery in good time before the truth is revealed. The ‘game’ aspects of the detective story were highlighted...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
“I say, you’re a very attractive woman!”—Ralph Richardson, star of Long Day’s Journey Into Night , after dancing with co-star Katharine Hepburn at the film’s wrap party, quoted in A. Scott Berg, Kate Remembered (2003) Richardson made his comment in 1962, but you can get an idea what he was talking about 20 years before, in this iconic image from Woman of the Year...
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I often mention in workshops for new supervisors, "You are the bird and your employees are the birdwatchers. They study you. They catch those off-hand remarks. They notice which people are favored with invitations to lunch and who doesn't get as much one-on-one time. They measure your moods. And often, they completely misread you." In short, leaders are on a stage and it is important for...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Have you been buying the minor huzz (hype+buzz) ' Robert De Niro 's 7th Oscar nomination' for the holiday film Everybody's Fine ? My friend txt critic saw it last night and sent the following note by phone... it's, well, fine. most definitely a drama ( despite the trailer ) and conceptually a cross between About Schmidt and Four Christmases . nice, sweet and somewhat forgettable. might, MIGHT be a...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In the 1930s, that glorious first decade after the movies learned how to talk, Hollywood was the sum of its studios, each with its own distinct brand and personality. MGM, the glossiest of them all, boasted that it had "more stars than there are in the heavens," which hardly seemed an exaggeration.
World of EdVon (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
I promised myself when 8 months ago that this wouldn't become the pregnancy blog. It's just that I'm to the point in my pregnancy now that we aren't really doing too much, so I feel quite boring! We are making a concerted effort to do more things around London since we are now homebound, and I'm hoping the postings on them will be a nice break from everything baby related (although I'm sure my 5
Learning Curve on the Ecliptic (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
It was an interesting Hallowee'n. We ate around 6pm, so as to be ready for the Trick or Treaters. They started to trickle around 7pm, just as we'd settled down to watch Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde on Turner Classic Movie channel - the Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman version. It was dusk. The early Trick or Treat contingent usually consists of teeny tiny fairies or goblins who sweetly gaze up at you
Open Left (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Most people probably at least vaguely remember Inherit the Wind , the 1960 movie about the Scopes trial, with Spencer Tracy as the gruff liberal (Clarence Darrow in real life), Fredric March as the pompous Christian anti-evolutionist (William Jennings Bryan in real life) and Gene Kelly as the cynical newspaperman (H. L. Mencken is real life). In the movie, the Bryan figure represents the past, blind...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Happy Halloween! It's a grand day for mad doctors, deranged zoologists and cat people. If you want horrifying movies, Turner Classic Movies is a good place to turn. Here's what the channel will offer today: 8 a.m.: "Dead of Night"...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 25 - 31 in PDF format This week's TV Movies HALLOWEEN TREATS: Catherine Bell and Chris Potter star in the 2009 TV sequel "The Good Witch's Garden" at 9...
scanners (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The big news is that TLRHB (That Little Round-Headed Boy) is back! And here he is, asking some pertinent questions about the art and craft of acting in response to Hilary Swank's comment in the Los Angeles Times: "You...
badgerblog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
One of the stories I've always liked is Jekyll and Hyde. I collect film versions of Jekyll and Hyde - there are so many, and with highly variable quality: from the classics of John Barrymore or Spencer Tracy, and the more recent and brilliant modern-day Jekyll miniseries written by Steven Moffat [1], to the Asian action fighting film with Jekyllish trappings starring Adam Baldwin . But I digress....
goatdogblog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
How do you make a documentary with the participation of someone who doesn't want to participate, who refuses to answer questions or even think about them, who won't help you examine her life—who thinks that the very idea of a...
the nytpicker (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
First of all, as everyone knows, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn played a couple at each others' throats -- not a man and a woman who happily complement each other's skills in perfect harmony. But even if reporter Tim Arango didn't write the ridiculous headline on his Sunday Business puff piece today, "Sony's Version Of Tracy And Hepburn," he deserves ridicule for delivering a poorly-reported,...
Bjørn Stærk's Max 256 Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
This Land is Mine (1943, USA) - I love the idea of setting a war movie in a generic European country, in a generic occupied city with heroes and cowards, quislings and saboteurs. It gives it the character of a fable, and allows it to take unrealistic shortcuts in order to make a statement that is true on a deeper level - about what it means to live as a free people. Watched it all. Hitler's Madman...
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