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Who's Online : 2Ken Curtis and the Sons of the Pioneers When I was in grade school I went to the B-western double-feature programs. One venue was the Garden Theater in Trenton. Here’s a description of getting there: The bus from Princeton arrived[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
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Bringing The Dead to Life John Huston brought James Joyce’s The Dead to life, or rather to the screen. It came to life in the sense that the beautiful Irish dialogue was spoken by the actors and heard by the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Henry and Polonius My favorite Shakespearian characters are Henry V and Polonius. The Bard’s Henry is the most eloquent of men. He’s a warmonger who presents both sides of the argument beautifully and then makes the military choice. The French[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Henry V and The Westerner The two love scenes in films that are indelible to me are between Laurence Olivier and Renée Asherson in Henry V and Gary Cooper and Doris Davenport in The Westerner. In Henry, Larry playing Harry[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Pope Francis and Hitmen “Is it legitimate to take out a human life to solve a problem? Is it permissible to contract a hitman to solve a problem?” Human life is sacred and inviolable and the use of prenatal diagnosis[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
She’s gone now, softly slipping away into eternity, leaving her legacy of poems and artworks. I had the honor and privilege of translating her marvelous poems into English. Now I have qualms of conscience for not continuing and having done[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Art Houses of Yore I must have been born as a film buff, and at an early age, I developed into a foreign-film buff. I was pious in very young years, but in spite of my religiosity, I used[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The “Old Man” You couldn’t call John Wayne versatile. But you couldn’t say that he didn’t do what he did well. He was not that young when he became a star. He mostly played cowpunchers who were over the hill[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Goodbye Leni! Leni Riefenstahl has left us at the ripe old age of one-hundred-and-one, and the old debate concerning form and content has come to the fore again. Doubtlessly Riefenstahl was a master cinematographer and an innovator. She approached Hitler[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
My Dog Skip The Skip of My Dog Skip is a Jack Russell terrier. The film is based on a Willie Morris memoir. Willie gets him as a boy in the Nineteen-Thirties. When he grows up to go off to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
What Happened to Bobby? Bobby Driscoll had a dream career as a child actor. He made his first film at the age of six and his last at the age of 18. I saw him in So Dear to My[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Right to the Top Keith Carradine went right to the top. He won the Academy Award for best song for I’m Easy from Nashville. Young and handsome with a wonderful voice and a talent for music and lyrics, he set[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Larry, Marilyn, Vivien and Noblesse Oblige He could speak Shakespeare’s lines as naturally as if he were actually thinking them. – Charles Bennett, English playwright Larry was the greatest of them all – and the most handsome. He was the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Wicki the Stickler Bernhard Wicki was a stickler. He is rumored to have actors wear costumes for the radio plays he directed. He started off playing romantic foils for woman stars in the George Brent fashion. Wicki was usually the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Bussing Bush Michelle will never forgive the Birther-in-Chief Trump for calling the location of his predecessor’s birth into question. Right-on! She grabbed her husband’s predecessor and planted a kiss on his cheek. He’s the man who invaded a Middle-Eastern country[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Homage to the Thalia I remember the old Thalia well. It was located off Broadway at 95th Street. The daily fare was two foreign double-feature films with subtitles which were shown for the duration of a day. There was an[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Putting on Weight There’s a Hollywood myth about Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman: Hofmann is reputed to have gone without sleep for a whole weekend in order to be convincing in a scene in Marathon Man. Olivier is alleged to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Devil’s General and the “Idealist” Karl Zuckmayer and Ernst Udet were friends. Zuckmayer, who was half-Jewish and an anti-Nazi, left Germany for Austria when Hitter rose to power. In 1938, he left Austria for Switzerland and then emigrated to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Movie House on the West Side There was a small film theater on the West Side where they showed German and Austrian films. The name of the theater is the only thing I forgot. It was frequented by elderly[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Casablanca and Serendipity I favor starting out with a concept and carrying through to the denouement. However, sometimes chance is a better method than any method. Ingrid Bergman didn’t jell with Humphrey Bogart and ditto for him. Ingrid also she[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
