O'Hara and Schuyler are great poets for hard times. Friends who have been there, and, it seems, will continue to be, they give us courage to go on our nerve in whatever emergencies arise.
Okay, the National Book Awards are not quite the Oscars---no one is likely to do a one-arm push up at them---but their 2009 awards ceremony is this Wednesday and it's an exciting line-up this year. Archives of many authors in the running either interviewing or being interviewed are up at the BOMB Magazine website . Read more... Also on the blog: Rediscovered Reading: Pissing in the Snow New: Full-Text...
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Stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner and Jane Russell made conical bras famous in the 1950s, and Madonna's exaggerated version -- created by Jean Paul Gaultier -- poked eyes out in early nineties. Now they are back: pointy bullet bras seemingly designed, it seems, both for comfort and for show.
Gotta love this guy . In his rush to humble America in the eyes of the world, he strives to placate every mook coming down the midway with a bullied nation in their hip pocket and in turn supplant them in the villain column with a national news agency whose most egregious error would appear to be not swooning every time he opens his “wiser than thou” piehole to speak in encyclical. What’s...
Dennis Miller: “Not since Lana Turner hooked up with Johnny Stompanato has a great star exhibited such poor taste in men.” Related posts: despite Hannity and Beck?'> Did Dennis Miller really say Fox is successful despite Hannity and Beck? Dennis Miller: “We gotta quit apologizing to every B-lister in a leopardskin fez and a doorman’s outfit from the Plaza Hotel.” Dennis...
…what Wisconsin is to cheese.” More menacings from Dennis Miller: The waiting room outside Dr. Obama’s Snake Oil Emporium is populated by the likes of General McChrystal, the Dalai Lama and Fox News, meanwhile Kadaffi, Chavez and Aqua-velvajad are walking around backstage with All-Access laminates. Not since Lana Turner hooked up with Johnny Stompanato has a [...]
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 25 - 31 in PDF format This week's TV Movies HALLOWEEN TREATS: Catherine Bell and Chris Potter star in the 2009 TV sequel "The Good Witch's Garden" at 9...
ARTS:HOLLYWOOD LORE is full of stories of stars who were discovered in unusual places. Lana Turner was supposedly spotted in a soda shop; Harrison Ford got his break making cabinets for George Lucas. English actress Carey Mulligan, however, owes her professional career to a school talk by the actor and Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, writesANNA CAREY
THE star from Hollywood’s golden era, who died on October 6, aged 94, was a film actress who worked with John Wayne and Lana Turner – but who found her career ruined when she went on a holiday instead of staying in Hollywood.
If it worked for Lana Turner.... When she was a law student, Orly Taitz skipped the class "frivoulous lawsuits" one afternoon and headed to Schwab's Pharmacy to buy a cup of tea. While sitting at the counter, she was spotted by the obese radio show host Rushell B. DeLimbaugh. DeLimbaugh was attracted to her inability to utter one audible word in the English language and her complete lack...
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Like Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, Serbian–born Slavko Vorkapich (1894-1976) was not only a filmmaker, but a respected film theorist, and like those two Soviet giants, Vorkapich’s theories were mainly about editing – the right and wrong ways to cut two shots together, the “kinesthetic” (physical) effects that could be produced in the viewer through montage....
Patsy Ruth Miller and Tay Garnett. Hollywood director Tay Garnett's (1894 – 1977) best known film was The Postman Always Rings Twice , 1946. Lana Turner burns the screen with her cool and murderous sensuality. John Garfield, real name Jacob Julius Garfinkle, gives a towering performance as the cynical chump who allows himself to be drawn into the femme fatale's spider web of homicide and betrayal....