The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The photographer Edward Weston's great muse who inspired some of his finest work Charis Wilson, whose name will always be linked to that of the renowned Californian photographer Edward Weston, has died aged 95. Most frequently described as Weston's great muse and the model of his middle/late years, she was also his driver, secretary, business manager and accountant, and wrote many of the texts that...
Recently Banned Literature (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
California Classics The Creative Literature of the Golden State by Lawrence Clark Powell The Ward Ritchie Press Los Angeles (1971) [click to enlarge] Works and authors discussed: Anza’s California Expeditions , by Herbert E. Bolton; The Journey of the Flame , by Walter Nordhoff; Death Valley in ’49 , by William L. Manly; The Land of Little Rain , by Mary Austin; The Wonders of the Colorado...
The Computers Blog (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
By Brandon Hurley For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. You can now save a trip to the video store and download movies right off the internet. Let's look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site. Di Donna: Agonizing domestic complications with a spouse of sixteen years old Giorgi, Manfredi gets to be infatuated with a nude rear view...
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
The novelist and screenwriter wrote two of the most scathing fictional denunciations of Hollywood ever penned – and, in a genre that has long dripped with bile and venom, that's really saying something The passing of Budd Schulberg at the age of 95 is the end of a cinema era. The son of BP Schulberg, who became head of Paramount in the 1930s, he was raised at the heart of the studio system....
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