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Who's Online : 1Willy, Herby and Harry: Better Late than Never The Assembly-Line Prince/Der Fießbandprinz was completed in 1973. I was 37 at the time. I had a real-life protagonist, Herb Andress. He was my age. I am now in my mid-eighties. My[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
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Film Accents and Contractions Have you noticed that in most American films set in foreign locations, the actors playing the foreigners use accents and they don’t use contractions? That is because, although they are actually speaking English, they want to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Catching an Image For three decades I’ve been passing the display window of a photographer in my neighborhood. He takes bad photos, and I have yet to find a good one in his window. My question is: can’t he take[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Samuel Laster, Founder & Editor of “Die Jüdische” Samuel Laster and I had a mutual friend, the late Ernst Meir Stern, a man of integrity. We miss him. We both had the privilege of being published his journal, Der Bund.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Whose side are you on? Here’s what I wrote about Napoleon: Yes, the Napoleonic Code was a remarkable and laudable document, but it was brought to other nations by the sword. Napoleon had no qualms about summary executions and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Cranes Are Flying The romance of Veronica and Boris is interrupted by the war. He is inducted. Veronica runs to the station, but his train leaves before they can say goodbye to each other. Boris carries a wounded[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Ken 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 …
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 …
