<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I loved Dietrich's husky voice more than anything else about her. She lived from 27 December 1901 to 6 May 1992. It's amazing that she lived to 91 considering that she always seemed to be smoking - which of course accounted for her husky voice.
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is a clean sweep of children's TV favourites for a new charity poster recreating the iconic Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
marlene dietrich daring you to even notice them.
MSNBC.com: Newsweek National News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Women, politics, and the media.
A trainwreck in Maxwell (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
When I saw this article about Michael Jackson showing up in an ultrasound . Yeah, I know how racially insensitive of me. Then I thought I read they were from Sugarland, but it was Southerland. Personally, I think it looks more like Marlene Dietrich ...
Per Crucem ad Lucem (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
This parody of The Lord of the Rings by O. Sharp is very clever, not least because it came out some 14 years before Tolkien’s book was published. It stars Humphrey Bogart as Frodo Baggins, Sydney Greenstreet as Gandalf, and Marlene Dietrich as Galadriel. Posted in Humour, JRR Tolkein
Sunset Gun (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Werner Herzog's approach to "the truth" has always been fascinating, fearless, at times ferocious and to continue in this alliterative vain, faithful. Faithful to life -- to its wonderful or horrifying craziness, to its lyrical splendor, and to its appalling ugliness that in turn, can often reveal a deep, multi-faceted beauty. Life is unclean. Life is violent. Life is corrupt. Life is fantastical....
The Curated Object (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
John Keats (1795-1821), autograph letter signed to Fanny Brawne, Kentish Town, 5 July 1820 tour: Love Letters For those in the City of Brotherly Love.... a romance, quite modern..... Love Letters, from Poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne October 9-December...
Unreality TV (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Kim Woodburn and Justin Ryan had a row in the I’m A Celebrity camp yesterday, when she suggested to him that he had the moles removed from his face. Justin explained in the Bush Telegraph “We take the mickey out of each other all the time but she said today bizarrely she thought I [...]
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In the closing scene of von Sternberg's "Dishonored" (1931). A quick internet search suggests that she may have been adept as a pianist. Clip found at Voluspa .
This is London (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Under the title "Between Two Worlds", Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO are presenting the work of the remarkable composer, Faust
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. You will find just about any movie you want with a good movie download site. Below is a small sample.
don juan's reckless daughter (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Anna May Wong acted along side some of Hollywood's heavy-hitters during the 20s and 30s (think Douglas Fairbanks, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich), received great acclaim for her onscreen performances, she even has a star on the Walk of Fame and yet she remains fairly unknown today. It seems that, despite the fantastic reviews and the accolade, Hollywood was reluctant to give her any honest to goodness...
Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Aleksandr Sokurov’s still, breathless film about Emperor Hirohito is a portrait in grey smoke and vague, delicate sounds. From inside the Emperor’s colorless laboratory of a palace, the distant cries of poverty and displacement and the low rumble of mechanized destruction cannot be heard above the tick and whirr of recording devices, preserving the movements and observations of the great...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
it is so fun to read about marlene dietrich. unlike the inscrutable garbo, dietrich seems to have no problem revealing how she ticks. here are a couple of real gems: "i work. and as long as people want me, and i have them eating out of my hands, i shall continue." "no man falls in love with me i don't want to fall in love with me" she is just great. she had a whim! collecting dressing-room...
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