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Cover of The Big Sleep Image via Wikipedia This week's pub quiz in the local Sunday paper had a round in it entitled 'Sleepy Heads' - either the question or the answer is connected to 'sleep' so that's quite helpful in this round. Question 6 was 'In which 1946 film did Humphrey Bogart play private eye Philip Marlowe?' The answer is of course 'The Big Sleep'. The Big Sleep was a Warner movie from 1946...
Disney Madness Antagony & Ecstasy a great piece on Disney's every charming Dumbo (1942) Sociological Images considers the social messaging of the princes and princess of Disney. Deflating but a smart/funny overview. Disney Blog interviews the supervising animator on The Princess and the Frog (audio) News Toronto Star a second sequel to The Blair Witch Project ? Er... Coming Soon I missed this news...
By Madelyn Mullins For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. You can now save a trip to the video store and download movies right off the internet. Following is a list of a few movies that you can get using a movie download site. The Island Of Dr. Moreau: On a remote island Dr. Moreau and his assistant Montgomery are working on the genetic improvement of man. They are trying to develop...
September 15, 1964—America’s first wildly successful primetime soap opera—the mother of Dallas , Knots Landing , Beverly Hills 90210 , Melrose Place , and their ilk— Peyton Place , premiered on ABC, giving the struggling network a jolt in the arm. In the 1960s, it seemed like, whenever ABC had a monster hit, the network’s rule of thumb for replicating the success was:...
Recorded at a Pistachio Party in Northport, Long Island. Poet Dorothy Malone reads her poem, “Whut? No Pistachios'” The celebration of pistachios might include: Corsican church music; information about St. Julia; green decorations; lots of yummy pistachio food. Videographer: Doug Swezey. Editor: Kimberly Wilder. Technical assistance: Ian Wilder. Hosts: Steven Schmidt and Kelly Powell. [...]...
With the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court (yay!) I’ve been thinking about courts and my relationship to them. As it stands, my relationship has mostly been formed by how I’ve seen them (and the issues in them) reprsented on the big screen. Below are 10 films that are not only cinematically powerful but also get at the problems with our courts, how they can be improved...
Women of the West – Gathering Dorothy Malone and other veterans of Minnelli and Sirk melodramatic romps for an exploration of the Freudian, godless Technicolor sprawl of the American West, The Last Sunset is a fascinating genre-hybrid. Like The Tarnished Angels , Sunset deftly capitalizes on Malone’s weathered Barbie doll look; by the late-fifties she seemed to have a lifetime etched into...
Here she is, glugging away in Sirk's 1958 The Tarnished Angels. Maybe she's having a presentiment that thirty years or so from this point, she'll be in Basic Instinct. This terrific picture is part of a wonderful French Sirk box...
Watching The Big Sleep in a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, and it is glorious . Lauren Bacall is as cool as blue flame, but it's hard to beat watching Bogart with Dorothy Malone. Even bookstore clerks are wise! In a way this is a key to film noir -- what passes as toughness is really a monumentous and universally held contempt for the slightest stupidity. "I've got a Balinese dancing girl tattooed...
There's been a lot of talk about who Sarah Palin looks like, but I seem to be the only one who thinks of Dorothy Malone, as the sexy bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep .
Last week, I reviewed the 1957 James Cagney vehicle, Man of a Thousand Faces, with Jane Greer and Dorothy Malone for DVDVerdict . A biography of the great Lon Chaney, one of my all-time favorite actors, apparently Cagney jumped at the chance to portray one of his screen idols in this Hollywood lovefest. The movie isn’t very good; Cagney never was a very good actor, but the review has become the...
As I've said in other posts, one of my favorite scenes in movie history is the ACME bookstore scene in The Big Sleep , where Humphrey Bogart encounters Dorothy Malone's bespectacled bookseller. I noted in an earlier post that while Howard Hawks claimed that much of the scene was made up on the set, the first half of the scene is actually straight from the original novel; it's the second half of the...
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