Aiyeeeeee! Not another Stanwyck snub?I just can?t take it! Oscar snubs has got to be one of the juiciest of blogathon topics?we?re all so?passionate?about it. Myself included?At the moment, working on this post, I am mad enough to spit that Barbara Stanwyck, who might...
Mary Astor?s memoir?A Life on Film?is fantastic?she?s a wonderful writer, and her sharp observations on the industry and what went on behind the cameras are fascinating and incredibly useful to anyone who writes about classic film. Astor writes of being asked by a...
Remember: If it bends, it?s funny. If it breaks, it isn?t. ?Lester (Alan Alda),?Crimes and Misdemeanors There was nothing funny about it when Buster Keaton broke. Keaton?s fall is legendary. Most of the time it?s told sketchily, and too often as if it were the end.?As...
Elizabeth Taylor won two Best Actress Oscars, for?BUtterfield 8?(1960) and?Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf??(1966). The first she perhaps rightly dismissed as a pity vote. The second she won fair and square, and I hope it meant something to her. Until fairly recently I...
On the set of The African Queen (1951) John Huston and Humphrey Bogart made six movies together, six points of intersection over their long careers. Three of the six were crucial in the careers of both men:?The Maltese Falcon?(1941),?The Treasure of the Sierra...
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