Phew, what a week last week was, but as the song says, 'that was the week that was, it's over let it go'. So, last night I did in grand style at the wonderful Bridgewater Hall, in central Manchester, home of the Halle Orchestra. Last night was one of their famous Halle Pops evenings - Puttin' on the Ritz: A tribute to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. To put not to fine an edge on it - I was in my element....
Read the entire post, which begins: Where to watch free movies online? Let’s get you started. First, we have listed dozens of free, high quality films that you can watch online. Then, below, you can find movie sites that feature free movie collections. Classics, international, film noir, documentaries, indies — they’re all here, waiting to be [...]
Chanel 's Karl Lagerfeld may be among the hardest working men in fashion but that doesn't stop me from getting the distinct feeling that he understands "leisure" more than most. The new issue of VMAN Magazine (#16) hits newsstands Tuesday, November 17th and features a new editorial shot by The Karl himself, “Gentlemen of Leisure.” Featuring Spring’s finest-cut suits, "Gentlemen...
In 2006, conservative columnist David Brooks fell in love politically with a young senator and wrote a column, " Run Barack Run ." We all know how that worked out and now, in a column today, " Meet John Thune ," Brooks reveals a new heartthrob from the other side of the Senate aisle. "Thune," he writes, "is the junior senator from South Dakota, the man who beat Tom...
A long and eventful day draws to a close and which included two contrasting male film personalities. Today we live is a 1933 released film of a William Faulkner story, set in England in the first World War, of love and heroic self sacrifice starring a young Joan Crawford, a mature Gary Cooper with Robert Young and Franchot Tone. Joan Crawford, as Diana, has grown up with her brother and his friend,...
I read Dennis Cooper’s blog every day, and it’s always a pleasure, but I want to point out that there has been an especially good run this week, and so if you’re an only-occasional visitor over there, this is a good time to go check in. Let’s move backwards through time. Today’s post is a collection [...]
Two weeks ago, I posted a collection of 20 sites where you can watch free movies online. Thanks to your help, the page now features 30 Places to Watch Free Movies Online, and I hope to keep it growing. Below, I have featured five of the new additions, which includes many important classics. Please feel [...]
Poetry hit the big screen in some big and lasting ways in the 1930s. James Whale, for example, opened 1935's Bride of Frank- enstein by staging a discussion between Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley about the nature of Mary's horror story which Whale himself had brought to movie theaters in 1931. (That's Byron, who in the film calls himself "England's greatest sinner," pictured...
They lead wildly dissimilar lives, yet thanks to a movie they are inextricably linked. She is the daughter of Hollywood royalty, a resident of the Big Apple and married to a world-class concert pianist.
They lead wildly dissimilar lives, yet thanks to a movie they are inextricably linked. She is the daughter of Hollywood royalty, a resident of the Big Apple and married to a world-class concert pianist.
Here’s what Ken Kesey had to say about Wendell Berry: “Wendell Berry is the Sargeant York charging unnatural odds across our no-man’s-land of ecology. Conveying the same limber innocence of young Gary Cooper, Wendell advances on the current crop of Krauts armed with naught but his pen and his mythic ridgerunner righteousness. One after the other he picks them off, from the flying...
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