Wired (Free subscription) | yesterday
6. - This is one of the best detective movies of all time, and one of the funniest. The Christmas part of the movie is pretty much incidental to the plot, but it has what is probably the best Christmas morning scene ever filmed, in which Nick Charles (played brilliantly by William Powell), trying out the air gun he's received as a gift, shoots ornaments off the tree. There's a reason...
The Politicker (Free subscription) | yesterday
the artwork removed from the Committee Room in City Hall will usher in some diversity on the walls.But actually, it's just being restored. According to mayoral spokesman Jason Post, the portrait that was removed is of and was painted by William Powell in 1861. In email, Post said, "A southerner, Anderson remained loyal to the Union, and was known for his command of Fort Sumter at the...
New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Lombard received her only Oscar nomination playing a ditzy heiress who falls for her butler (William Powell, who in real life was Lombard's ex-husband). Sunday offers showings of two of Lombard's four comic pairings with Fred MacMurray: Wesley Ruggles' underrated "True Confession" (1937, also with Barrymore), with Lombard as a compulsive liar; and Mitchell Leisen's delightful "Hands...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
With immaculate timing, Film Forum has scheduled a series of Carole Lombard films: the perfect response to recession, depression, and other ills, whether of the economy or the soul. One of her most glittering works, showing on Nov. 21 and Nov. 22, is “My Man Godfrey,” directed by Gregory La Cava, from 1936. Lombard plays Irene Bullock, who scavenges a tramp (William Powell) from the city...
