The Busby Berkeley Collection, Vol. 2 (Gold Diggers of 1937 / Gold Diggers in Paris / Hollywood Hotel / Varsity Show)
behind the curtain (Free subscription) | yesterday
(LOVE the shoes. I need to make little medallions like this to add to my shoes) Ladies and gentlemen, I've finally seen this movie and oh boy did I enjoy it! I'm not a fan of musicals, but I absolutely...
P&C (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
When you're home for a quiet Saturday night it's always nice to find a great old movie on the telly. Last night, KQED (our local public television station) aired two gems from the 1930s which made my eyes pop with delight. The first was 42nd Street - an adorable "understudy fills in for the lead and saves the show" story, with some fantastic numbers from Busby Berkeley. The Depression-era...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
To mark its 175th anniversary, the Royal Institute of British Architects is holding a season of films in which buildings – fantastical or factual – take a starring role. Here are my top five From the silent epics of DW Griffiths through Art Deco spectaculars like Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 to Pixar's wonderful WALL-E (2008), the connection between architecture and film has always...
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
This clip from Swing Time 1936, in which Fred saves Ginger's job, is a perfect illustration of why Astaire and Rogers revolutionized dance in movies. Elegant, explosive—watch for the amazing shifts in tempo—and deeply romantic, their dance numbers are—Astaire insisted on this—seamlessly integrated into the plot line of their films. Astaire also wisely demanded that the dance...
Life in Lingerie... (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Thanks to everyone who made it out to Content last night – attendees, models, coordinators, designers et al! The event was a big success, with extraordinary transformations occurring in nearly every room on the second floor of the Ace Hotel. I was proud to be a part of such a unique and creative exhibition, showing [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
As the alarmingly alliterative hairy Hogwarts handyman, Hagrid, Robbie Coltrane did plenty of acting with children, but none of them, and certainly not the wand-wooden Daniel Radcliffe, could ever have held even an enchanted candle to young Bel Powley. She played opposite Coltrane in the opening episode of Murderland , as Carrie, the daughter of a murdered prostitute, and she was terrific.
History is made at night (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
'Dorothy Coonan was one of Busby Berkeley's principal chorus dancers who had performed in such films as Whoopee! (1930) and 42nd Street (1933) when she met the director William Wellman, who cast her as the female lead in his film Wild Boys of the Road (1933). She then became Wellman's fifth wife, and remained happily married to him for over 40 years until his death in 1975... Wellman cast Coonan as...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Dorothy Coonan was one of Busby Berkeley's principal chorus dancers who had performed in such films as Whoopee! (1930) and 42nd Street (1933) when she met the director William Wellman, who cast her as the female lead in his film Wild Boys of the Road (1933). She then became Wellman's fifth wife, and remained happily married to him for over 40 years until his death in 1975. Ten years earlier, Wellman...
liebemarlene vintage (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
I'm getting ready to leave town for the first of the October weddings we're set to go to, and even though I love both the dresses I'll be wearing I can't help but wish I had something sleek and art deco and black and white to wear instead. Well, that's just probably due to the movies I've been watching lately; my Netflix movie got lost in the mail, so I've been re-watching 42nd Street and a bunch...
The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The spread punt formation should die. I might be biased on this topic because the first time I met the spread punt formation was in 2003. Michigan had a good team that year: John Navarre was a senior and the Wolverines beat OSU by two touchdowns and went on to the Rose Bowl, where they lost because that is what Michigan does in the Rose Bowl. The spread punt came into my life during that year's Iowa...
Joshuah Bearman (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Is what this video offers: Watching it again, I hereby declare this to be the most succinct and effective commentary on the modern American workplace. Not to mention: a testament to the lasting power of 'N Sync. I love the...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Two of the more thrilling works of the 20th century came with the Miami City Ballet over the weekend: George Balanchine's "Symphony in Three Movements" and Twyla Tharp's "In the Upper Room."
[FashionRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Check out his just-released video for Blame It On The Girls (above It's Busby Berkeley meets A Clockwork Orange with Katy Perry meets...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
T own Hall Birmingham will be the setting for a British Bollywood outdoor dance spectacular this October - the centrepiece of the Grade I listed concert hall’s 175th anniversary celebrations. Bollywood Steps, presented by Town Hall in association with leading UK outdoor arts specialists nutkhut, is set to capture the imagination of up to 12,000 people in three performances in Victoria Square...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
They didnt put people out on the street in Rome Synopsis When a nebbishy do-gooder (Eddie Cantor) is thrown out of his home town of West Rome, Oklahoma, he suddenly finds himself a slave in Ancient...
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