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BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Longtime readers may recall my special, TWILIGHT ZONEISH connection to legendary movie star Lana Turner (detailed here: http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/search?q=lana+turner+changed+my+life+and+never+even+knew ). Well, for years I tried to reach the now late actress to tell her that story but it was never to be. Last week, however, after another several years of trying, I DID finally succeed in...
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Army Archerd (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
His birthday isn't until Nov. 30 but daughter Stephanie wanted to surprise him. So, on Saturday, she produced a 90th birthday spectacular toast to her father Efrem Zimbalist,Jr. at Lakeside Country Club -- across the street(s) from his alma mater Warner Bros. "I feel like I was in heaven for a day and back," he emotionally said to me. Stephanie...
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Explore : Actors and Actresses, Angie Dickinson, Bruce Davison, Cheryl Ladd, Cinema, Dana Andrews, Entertainment, Fred Astaire, Jane Fonda, Joe Mantegna, Natalie Wood, Patty Duke, Rhonda Fleming, Warner Bros.
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Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
At left, my favorite Lana Turner expression: stricken, freaked-out, NOOOOOOoooooOOOOO!!!!! --with scene-chewing aplenty. Even though it's Annie's death scene, Lana takes over the screen with her melodramatic blondness. (She always looked utterly fabulous.) While Mr Daisy read a high-minded historical biography of Andrew Jackson , I sat there watching, yes, IMITATION OF LIFE , probably for the 100th...
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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
This new Lana Turner book caught my eye recently when it came up in my Amazon recommendations. LANA is a 400-page coffee table book by Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, and Cindy De La Hoz. The five-star Amazon reviews made it sound quite interesting. Turner isn't one of my top favorite actresses, but I've enjoyed many of her films, especially those she made up through the late '40s, and I particularly...
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The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Susan Sarandon, 62, is featured in the book. Susan Sarandon, Angie Harmon, Kate Hudson, Elisha Cuthbert, Molly Sims, and Denise Richards are among the modern-day celebs who have stripped off in some sultry photos, taken in the spirit of famed 1940s pinup girls like Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner, for Hollywood Pinups, a new book from [...]
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The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Next book on my "entertainment biography" shelf: Lana: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth, by Lana Turner You know, you can open up George Eliot's Middlemarch and find a gem of language on every page. Not an exaggeration. It's almost...
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Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Roger Moore is seldom chosen in any poll as the most cherished James Bond. While he certainly made a mark as the British agent, more people prefer Connery, Bronson, or the current Daniel Craig. But Moore doesn’t regret trading in his TV career to become Bond. Roger Moore has written his memoirs [...]
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Explore : Actors and Actresses, Cinema, Daniel Craig, Directors, Entertainment, Guy Hamilton, James Bond, Mae West, Maud Adams, Roger Moore, Showbiz, Vivien Leigh
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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Because time isn’t always kind: economic reviews in a world full of waste! You know Roger Dean even if you don’t know Roger Dean. Those trippy Yes and Asia album covers? That’s him. Prog rock’s favorite sleeve artist is celebrated in DRAGON’S DREAM, a handsome coffee-table book that begins with work he did for sci-fi computer [...]
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
From The Telegraph:They say that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the last person to have read everything. By the time he died there were too many books, they suggest, for any single brain to engage with. "They", as usual, are wrong....
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The Cutting Edge (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
I posted that short video extract a couple days ago (The Greatest Movie Line ever..."Ghost Breakers") and sort of felt bad that I didn't even recognize Bob freakin' Hope. Weak in the movie-fu know-who. There may be something to say for that, but Bob Hope? Sheesh. But this famous YouTube "Women in Film" will test even the best and most knowledgeable movie fan. I know a few; my wife knows many.
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Explore : Actors and Actresses, Anne Baxter, Ann-Margret, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, Bob Hope, Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charlize Theron, Deborah Kerr, Diane Keaton, Diane Lane, Dorothy Dandridge, Elizabeth Taylor, Faye Dunaway, Gene Tierney, Gloria Swanson, Goldie Hawn, Grace Kelly, Greer Garson, Greta Garbo, Holly Hunter, Ingrid Bergman, Isabella Rossellini, Jacqueline Bisset, Jane Fonda, Jessica Lange, Joan Crawford, Jodie Foster, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Julie Christie, Katharine Hepburn, Kathleen Turner, Lauren Bacall, Loretta Young, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Meg Ryan, Meryl Streep, Michelle Pfeiffer, Natalie Wood, Norma Shearer, Olivia De Havilland, Raquel Welch, Rita Hayworth, Sandra Bullock, Sharon Stone, Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Vivien Leigh, YouTube
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Film News: Army Archerd Archive -- Lana Turner's longtime yen to land Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as her leading man is close to reality with the Mirischmen negotiating with J.L.Warner for his loanout on "By Love Possessed."
