The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
I watched Johnny Handsome last night, a movie I had not seen - spurred on by my brother's comments about the film in the comments-section to this post about Mickey Rourke. What is extraordinary about this film (besides its dark...
Keeping the Castle (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Decorating a room doesn’t have to cost much. With talent and imagination, Charlie Kratzer turned his basement from blah to bam! using $10 worth of black Sharpie markers. Charlie drew both historical figures and fictional characters on the walls of his basement. He featured his dad, R2D2, Winston Churchill, Joan Crawford, Sherlock Holmes, and others. Here’s [...]
Final Girl (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Holy crapping crap, did I pick a good one with Strait-Jacket , folks! William Castle + Joan Crawford + axe murders + wigs = I AM IN HEAVEN without my face, for my face has been rocked way, way off. The story is oh so simple in its simplicity: Lucy Harbin (Joan effing Crawford) came home early from an out of town trip to find her younger husband (Lee Majors!) post-flagrante and sound asleep in bed with...
StinkyLulu (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Mostly An Alibi for Pepsi Product Placement, or... Wearing a Kenley Collins original, or... Getting Facially Felt Up by Joan Crawford, or... Trapped in the Trippiest Water Closet Ever, or... Just Trying to Blend with the Furniture, or... Discovering that Your Husband's Been in the Closet this Whole Time. Gratitude. 'Tis truly a question of perspective... Just ask Lady Columbia. This post is
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A romantic comedy from writer-producer Kevin Murphy (“Desperate Housewives”), “Valentine” tells the tale of the Greek goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros (known in Rome, and on ABC, as Cupid), who try to hook people up with their soulmates. The demigod Hercules, titan Phoebe, fire-god Hephaestus and war-god Ares help out as well. Aphrodite is played by Jamie Murray, who assayed the nutty arsonist on...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Anne Billson delights in the name-dropping memoir of Hollywood's oldest - and hairiest - A-lister
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
In celebration of her 100th birthday, we cover a short biography of Carole Lombard's career and life.
Janet Charlton's Hollywood (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Photo Credit: Splash News Here are two of our favorite designers backstage at Jean Paul Gaultier's show in Paris. Jean Paul is still a brilliant innovator and he knows an inspiring female when he sees one. Dita Von Teese,...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
THE person who wrote the letter about taking smoking out of movies (ECHO, Sept 24) doesn’t realise that Hollywood and the big cigarette companies have been working together for years to glamorise smoking.
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Designer Manolo Blahnik was honored at the Beverly Hills’ Walk of Style, flanked by guests like Lucy Liu, January Jones, and Nicky Hilton.
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
(TrendHunter.com) Fragrances are an indulgent luxury enjoyed by both males and females. It is one of the many products that one purchases in order to please another more than to please themselves. Perfumes and colognes…
Splat! (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
It feels a bit silly to mourn the death of a person I never met even once in real life but, all the same, I…
EDSBS (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
The Alphabetical, our grand attempt to summarize the week’s action in 26 pieces, is up at the Sporting Blog. it’s a lovely day: the sun is shining, the birds are really and literally singing outside the window, and the Dane is lying comfortably in the grass. What more could one ask for, really? Besides [...]
Myrhaf (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Great movie actors have an elusive, hard to define quality called screen presence. It is not just a matter of beauty, although beauty helps. Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn and the mature Joan Crawford, none of them great beauties, had screen presence. Hedy Lamarr, called by some the most beautiful woman of the last century, wasn't much of a screen presence. (These actresses flourished back when Hollywood...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Taproot Theatre presents "Susan and God," a recovered 1930s-era Broadway musical that was turned into a 1940 Joan Crawford film before disappearing from the stage for decades. Taproot's production plays Sept. 26-Oct. 25.
