Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... hear the bells when she sang in Hairspray And finally let's hear some love in the comments for Hedy Lamarr , one of the most beautiful actresses of the 40s and one of the first to go nude on film in Ekstase (1933) Where's her biopic? Or miniseries even. Seriously... you can practically see the scenes spanning the genres: (war drama) Austrian-Jewess Hedy drugs her own maid to...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
In a twist on Halloween, the online bookseller Abebooks has collected its top 10 ghostwritten books. The best story -- although perhaps the worst-written -- is of actress Hedy Lamarr. Although she was listed as the sole author of her...
Containing Multitudes - American Studies UEA (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... Arena include the The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul, The Hunt for Moby-Dick, T.S. Eliot and Calling Hedy Lamarr. Other films include The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema with Slavoj Zizek, described as “a virtuoso marriage of image and thought” by Variety and “an extraordinary reassessment of cinema” by The Times. For further information on LoneStar Productions you can visit their website,...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal and Salman Rushdie, alongside David Bowie, Johnny Cash, James Brown, Hedy Lamarr, Keith Richards and Shirley MacLaine. But that's not all: On its website, Vanity Fair has posted an interactive questionnaire for the rest of us. Fill in your answers, and it tells you which celebrity your answers are the most like. Me, I'm more than 93% David Mamet. Wow. Not...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
... Jackie Hoffman, Craig Bierko and Alan Zweibel. They read from the autobiographies of Miley Cyrus, Hedy Lamarr, Burt Reynolds and Lonnie Anderson and Burt’s ex-personal assistant), The Jonas Brothers, Joan Lunden, Tommy Lee and more. These books are comic gold and the performers don’t have to create their own material. They simply read the passage, with the voice and intonation in...
