San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
1939 Director: George Cukor Writers: Anita Loos, Jane Murfin, and, uncredited, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Donald Ogden Stewart Producer: Hunt Stromberg Music: David Snell, Edward Ward Cast Mary Haines: Norma Shearer Occupation: Stay-at-home mother and...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)The Women: Comedy. Starring Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Annette Bening, Debra Messing and Jada Pinkett Smith. Written and directed by Diane English. Based on the script for the 1939 film by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, and the original play by...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
The Women Running time 114 minutes Written and directed by Diane English Starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing Diane English’s The Women , from her own screenplay, is supposedly based on George Cukor’s 1939 adaptation by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin of Clare Boothe Luce’s 1936 Broadway play. Both the 1936 play and the 1939 movie were funny in a bitchy, misogynist way. Luce was...
raincoaster (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks’ Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk. Anita Loos
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Your birthday today: You are shrewd, far-sighted and ambitious. Your friends and associates have confidence in you and respect you. Your most valuable possessions are your friends, who are staunch and loyal and will help you when in need. You love your home and are kind and considerate of your family. You have nobody written into the book to share today with, so perhaps you will prove your far-sightedness,...
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
B orn today: John James Audobon, naturalist, author, Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti), 1785; Frederick Law Olmsted, architect, author, Hartford, Conn., 1822; Artemus Ward (ps. Charles Farrar Browne), essayist, humorist, Waterford, Maine, 1834; Anita Loos, novelist, screenwriter, Sissons, Calif., 1893; Bernard Malamud, novelist, short-story writer, Brooklyn, New York, 1914; Bruce Jay Friedman, humorist,...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Today In Theatre History: APRIL 10and Ernio Hernandez and Anne Bradley1868 Birthday of master actor George Arliss, who starred in a series of historical vehicles, including HamiltonDisraeli1868 Birthday of master actor George Arliss, who starred in a series of historical vehicles, including HamiltonDisraeli1957 Laurence Olivier is The Entertainer. John Osborne's drama exposing the final turns of a...
The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
In Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the sincerest gold digger in the world, Lorelei Lee, remarks to her companion, Dorothy “Shopping seems to be what Paris is mostly for.” It's true that Paris seems a very different place when you can't buy it. It's Sunday afternoon. The Place Vendome is the most glorious shopping arcade [...]
Badaude (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
In Anita Loos', Gentlemen prefer Blondes, the sincerest gold digger in the world, Lorelei Lee, remarks to her companion, Dorothy 'Shopping seems to be what Paris is mostly for'. It's true that Paris seems a very different place when you...
Badaude (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
What do you do on your own on Valentines' day in the City of Love? Paris is making it as easy as possible to fall in love. In shop windows and newspaper editorials there are pictures of all the things...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
The Guardian discusses the German novelist Irmgard Keun. In a sense, impersonation - mimicry - remained the name of the game. In her early novels Gilgi - eine von uns (Gilgi - One of Us, 1931) and Das kunstseidene Mädchen (The Artificial Silk Girl, 1932), Keun gave voice to the young modern woman, now newly and trickily positioned at the crux of work, love and family, using the first-person narrative...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
A St. Louis exhibit exploring the blonde in contemporary art, asked if the same show would be possible for brunettes or redheads.
Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Republic (Free subscription) | 12/22/2007
In action again after a much-needed break and happily flying under one of the many pungent sayings attributed to 'Jackie' Fisher. Looking back on some first rate reading, the top three being: Clair Wills, That Neutral Island, A Cultural History of Ireland in the Second World War. Graham Robb, The Discovery of France. Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. And some brilliant listening, mainly Radio 3...
P&C (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
Why Martha, Why? Yes, it's a sad time for all of us clever gals of the design-and-craft variety. A while back, a magazine called Blueprint was launched by the master of them all: Martha Stewart. Finally, all of us 25 to 39 year-olds had somewhere to go to get chic, simple and creative inspiration that didn't look like a cottage industry. Of course, we could have read the great bastion Martha Stewart...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
THE stereotype of the "dumb blonde" may have emerged with the development of films, television and magazines as early as the 1920s.
