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Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... recognition Curie and her peers faced. Short stories providing overviews of the contributions of Hedy Lamarr (the foundations of cell phone technology), Lise Meitner (physics and atom bomb technology), Rosalind Franklin (DNA), Barbara McClintock (gene research) and Biruté Galdikas (orangutan study). Ottaviani wisely keeps each story focused on the intelligence of the woman in spotlight,...
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24 FRAMES PER SECOND (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... versions of the movie, a strange sort of paralell reality in which Casblanca starred Alan Ladd and Hedy Lamarr, Carole Lombard (pictured) played opposite Bob Hope, rather than Robert Montgomery, in Mr and Mrs Smith, and Ray Milland and Frank Lovejoy were the Strangers on A Train. At the time, Lux Radio Theater must have been a wonderful way to revisit movies, and today it is a stunning...
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Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... doesn't believe in holding his tongue. Doesn't approve of Quentin Tarantino's music Old Hollywood Hedy Lamarr in ecstacy Nicks Flick Picks finally gets around to "best actress 2008", both his own and Oscar's, but hot damn it's a good read. Plus: awesome comments section with heated / lucid opinions In Contention Mélanie Laurent promoted to Lead Actress for Inglourious...
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Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... 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...
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Containing Multitudes - American Studies UEA (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A reminder that this week's research seminar has different format and venue. The School of American Studies is very pleased to be hosting the screening of A Regular Black: The Hidden Wuthering Heights, a film by BBC Arena director Adam Low and producer Martin Rosenbaum, whose recent films for Arena include the The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul, The Hunt for Moby-Dick, T.S. Eliot and Calling Hedy...
