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Who's Online : 1My 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 …
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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 …
“Red” of “Murder Incorporated” The wonderful thing about Orthodox Judaism is that your life is all laid out for you. All you have to is follow the religious laws. Do that – and you can’t go wrong! Here’s a quote[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Faithful Husband “‘Red’ Levine, a cold-blooded contract killer, who was a strict orthodox Jew and therefore did not murder on the Sabbath. Then there was the merciless syndicate boss Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter (sic) who loved his mother more than[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
ONEOFUS is to be commended for taking the High Road. We don’t want to bar anyone from being on this planet. Blessed Kudos are being showered on these idealists by the Catholic Church. In these days of rank libertinism, those[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Boy There’s one photo by Roman Vishniac that is indelible in my mind. A rabbi is teaching a Yeshiva class of young boys. One of the boys has turned and has been caught by the camera before seeing it.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Happy Holidays to Henry the Kiss of Death – Down Here and Dick, Ron and John Paul – Up There, who were instrumental in establishing Repressive Right-Wing Regimes in Central America. Those fleeing Hell on Earth are clamoring at[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Film Oldies Remember those film oldies! They were handsome and delightful men who were old in the best possible sense. They had gained age with humor, charm and a total lack of bitterness. There was roly-poly Monty Woolley (the name[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Horses of Stagecoach Stagecoach is the classic western based the de Maupassant story, Boule de suif, which is the classic doxy story. The great Indian chase of the hurtling stagecoach is the most classic scene of this classic film.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Alan and the Key The Princeton Playhouse was the home of the Technicolor A-films. The Garden Theater was the home of B-films. There were matinees of Frankenstein, Sherlock Homes, Tarzan and western films in the Garden Theater. The Garden is[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Bogart Butt When I was a kid, I saw Bogart as a private eye, reporter, sea captain or gangster on the lam. He had something that the other tough guys, Edward G., Cagney and Ladd didn’t have – the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
