TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Going into Howard Hawks’ Hatari! at BAM this past Wednesday night I had a feeling I would like it. I mean the film’s description is kind of amazing: “John Wayne has never been better than as the leader of a pack of big-game hunters on the African plains who tackle rhinoceroses, elephants, and giraffes to sell to American zookeepers. Hawks’ late-career masterpiece is funny,...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Probably for the same reason that you don’t often see movie stars diss other movie stars for their acting, or directors critique helmers they think are less imaginative, film critics and writers tend to avoid making negative public comments about each other’s work. There are exceptions, however. Armond White of the New York Press has [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
After Léon Bing, a model in the 1960s, stopped modeling, she moved on to write widely admired books about troubled youths, and has now written a memoir.
Fresh Visual (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Marginally less homoerotic than Top Gun and riddled with Samwise Gamgee style loyalty, Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings is a claustrophobic adventure obscured by a haze of cigarette smoke. Planes crash, women become hysterical and Cary Grant takes charges and slaps bitches. Honestly, revisiting the classics is fun.
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - Bye Bye Baby Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, co-stars in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), sing Bye Bye Baby. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 film adaptation of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid,...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
By now, you've had your fill of ghosts, goblins, and things that go bump in the night. You've cleaned up pumpkin guts, peeled off your skin along with your spirit gum prosthetics, hoping OxyClean gets fake blood stains out of your carpet. You need a movie with class, wit, and Cary Grant. You need Howard Hawks' classic His Girl Friday , which is playing right now on SlashControl. There's nothing I...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Ahoy, squirts! here. The final episode of that great series documenting the talented king of geeks Mr. Bob Burns and the amazing Halloween shows he put on back in the '60s and '70s. This last episode is the longest of the bunch and focuses on the very last show Bob did, which also happens to be the biggest show he ever did... recreating the Howard Hawks THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD down to the smallest...
Zada News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
High Noon is an American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. [1] This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly). [2] HIGH NOON is a masterpiece that is [...]
Sibby Online (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
We have a petition drive in South Dakota that sounds a lot like this Nebraska group: In its October newsletter, Nebraska Right to Life called on allies to picket outside Varner Hall, the East Campus building where regents meet, urging...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Here's a tip-of-the-hat to whomever makes the in-flight video programming decisions for Continental Airlines. All airlines program contemporary crap (i.e., Land of the Lost, Transformers 2) but very few include classic films. I'm just saying it was enormously comforting to watch John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath and Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby during Wednesday's JFK-to-LAX flight. It mitigated an...
Walt at Random (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Spooks Run Wild, 1941, b&w. Phil Rosen (dir.), Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall and the gang. 1:05 [1:03]. Since the sleeve says “Starring: Bela Lugosi” I didn’t realize until the opening credits came on that this is another East Side Kids flick, although it doesn’t use that name. And, even by the low [...]
Third Factory/Notes to Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Stacy Doris | Cheerleader’s Guide to the World | Roof Books | 2006 Classic texts over the top Mayan, Tibetan, New Jerseyan for the reader-gamer. Also enjoyed re-reading Doris’ Knot, Conference, and Paramour recently. Manny Farber | Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies | Da Capo Press | 1998 “this exciting shake-up movie is made up in [...]
NYU Local (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Let’s extend a warm welcome to one of NYU’s newest grad students, Lorelei Lee. She is 28, pursuing a masters in fine arts and wisely uses her time outside the classroom to earn the cash to pay for college. As a porn star. In an interview with NY Daily News, Lee explains she is well accustomed [...]
Ivoland! (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Movie: Red River (1948) “Tom Dunson builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth. Together they begin a massive cattle drive north from Texas ...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Waldo Lydecker ( played by Clifton Webb, to detective Mark McPherson, played by Dana Andrews ): “You'd better watch out, McPherson, or you'll finish up in a psychiatric ward. I doubt they've ever had a patient who fell in love with a corpse.”— Laura (1944), screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt, based on the novel by Vera Caspary, directed by Otto...
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