Uptown Girls RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The Fashion ABCs Detroit Free Press, United States - 5 hours ago The ABCs of fashion include this 1951 photo of actress Shelley Winters wearing fishnet stockings. Fishnet is a fabric, often used in lingerie or hosiery, ...
Amuse-Biatch (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Posted by Charlus at Labels: , , 0 comments: Subscribe to: Our “Project Runway” Coverage Our FoodCandy Interview People Are Biatchin’“Whatever you do, don’t read the blogs.”--“Delicious! Doing the Lord’s work! Love ya, possums!”--“catty”--“soaked in Top Chef juice”-- “brilliant minds”--“snide losers”-- “hilarious…frivolous…conspiratorial”-- “skewers all ‘Top Chef’ contestants”--“Top...
Enzian Theater (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
In retrospect probably both, but who cares? All I know is that a rare 35mm print of Robert Aldrich's WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962), starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Victor Buono, plays Enzian tonight (Tuesday) as part...
Slaminsky (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Right then, I'm about to be cut off again. I may be some time. Just going to hold my breath and take the plunge, much like Shelley Winters in the Poseidon Adventure.See you later, alligators.
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Today marks the 46th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, so today’s Quick 10 is things you may have not known about Miss Norma Jeane Baker. 10 Marilyn Monroe Minutiae 1. She was Miss California Artichoke Queen in 1947. Something tells me the other California Artichoke Queens didn’t go on to have quite the same [...]
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
WFMU presents Selected Sounds from the Free Music Archive vol. 1. This compilation previews 21 of the thousands of tracks that’ll be freely available under Creative Commons licenses when the fully interactive Free Music Archive website launches this November. We’re...
i drink your milkshake! (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
The Night of the Hunter (1955) 93m. ★★★½ D: Charles Laughton. Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, James Gleason, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce. Dark, often terrifying parable of lost innocence, gorgeously photographed in black and white by Stanley Cortez. Mitchum is terrific as a religious psychotic who marries widow [...]
Sunset Gun (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Robert Mitchum was and still is an American original who projected a natural-born charisma all his own. Brimming with understated talent (the kind that’s always underrated), the actor could run the spectrum from gorgeous leading man ( Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison ) to light comedian ( What a Way to Go !) to war hero ( The Story of G.I. Joe ) to Western existentialist ( Pursued ) to flawed...
Chef Mojo (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Chefs have a curious attitude towards people that review their restaurants. We hate 'em, but we need 'em. I tend to read restaurant reviews with the same fervor that some read the obituaries in The Times (UK). You can learn...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Frank Bruni is pissed! The New York Times' omnipotent restaurant critic (pictured) today reviews a new Tribeca restaurant named Ago, which is owned in part by actor Robert De Niro. And Bruni's...
Eater (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
It's been awhile since Frankie Two-Stars has taken down a restaurant, awarding it the big old goose egg. And it's been almost three years since he's actually rated said restaurant as "Poor" instead of the usual "Satisfactory" (see Ninja ). But today the Brunz gives the bloodthirsty mobs what they want: a through and through take down of the mecca for bad food and even worse service, Ago: "This restaurant...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
DVD Video Review: This entertaining comedy thriller gets a region-free UK release from Second Sight although, regrettably, minus Ned Beatty swearing.
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Sydney Pollack - 1968 MGM Region 1 DVD The Scalphunters was one of two credited films that Sydney Pollack shot with Burt Lancaster. As a directorial assignment, the film is still worth watching to pick up some of the...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Okay, for those who haven’t seen it, brief plot synopsis… Harper’s a down and out private dick who is hired to find a missing millionaire by his almost indifferent wife (Lauren Bacall). As in any good Private Eye tale, our hero runs into some crazy characters including Shelley Winters as an aging (and widening) starlet, Robert Wagner as a charismatic young Kato Kaylen type who bums around the disappeared...
What About Clients? (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
It was a 1960 movie with Shelley Winters, Ricardo Montalban, Jean Seberg and Burl Ives (playing a nice boozy Irish Chicago judge) I first saw as a re-run on TV growing up in Cincinnati. It was based on a 1958...
