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Who's Online : 2The 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 …
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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 …
Too Much Cotton Orson Weles reaped great praise for Touch of Evil, a sloppy job compared with Kane, but nevertheless with moments of greatness like all post-Kane films. A corpulent Welles plays a, dishevelled cop, but he felt needed a[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
APHORISMS by Žarko Petan Translated by Herbert Kuhner I’m a fatalist; I love femme fatales. The male dream: a virgin with experience. The ideal women: hot in winter, frigid in summer. A nudist fell in love with a nudist upon[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Larry and Orson We Americans who strive for elegance are invariably cowed by our British lingual non-compatriots. The most beautiful British voice and delivery belong to Laurence Olivier. He is matched by our Orson. The most beautiful American voice and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
“Blackface” is not a slur. Entertainers who put on black paint were not putting African Americans down. In the Twenties and Thirties those who didn’t need paint stepped forward to do their own thing in spite of Jim Crow and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Princess There was a beautiful princess who went to Hollywood and became the most elegant and attractive actress in the history of cinema. She acted well in every film she was in and each one was a box office[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
I Prefer Buster Charlie came first and then came Buster. Charlie pratfell and caused pratfalls, and he battered around with the heavies. Charlie had a mean streak but Buster was gentle. When the Looney Tunes cartoon characters came on the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Zarah Dietrich stayed in the States. Goebbels tried to get her back, but is it was no go. She had a glorious career and was a foe of the Third Reich. Although Hollywood had beckoned, Zarah Leander didn’t get on[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Rocks and Rifle Bullets President Donald Trump: “They want to throw rocks at our military. Our military fights back. I told them to consider it a rifle.” (in other words, if a kid throws a rock, shoot him!) “Migrants” are[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
De box looks at vun fellow, and de box says “Yes, dot vun is for me!” It looks at annoder, and it says, “Nawww!” – Akim Tamiroff, as related by Orson Welles Dying young means being young for all eternity[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
True Words “ You know what I am? I’m a nationalist, OK? I’m a nationalist.” (Thank you Donald! At last a true word! Actually ten words. We’ve been waiting. But we have not been waiting in vain.) Lucky and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Day in the Park There had been nothing, eventful in my life. Just school and then college. I had been an average student. Not bad to look at. Not that my looks were extraordinary. Of course there had been[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
FOX and Morality For some having moral values seems to mean playing dirty so you can impose the moral values you don’t happen to have on others. Questions: If you really believe in the Deity, why would you play dirty?[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Depicting It There are two things that cannot be depicted – a rose and sexual organs. A rose because it is too beautiful, and sexual organs because they are too ugly. It is the miasma of desire that makes them[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Up the Creek – A Rehash of Past Events For Prof. Reiner Lendl, “whose merits include the rediscovery of Austrian exile literature.” Herbert Kuhner, the writer, is in a sense a historian. His life story runs parallel to history and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
