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DARLING, PLEASE DON’T SHOOT MY AGENT

December 26, 2012 by Vickie Lester

Heavens, such a lot of hub-bub recently about a flattened affect actress and her middle-aged married lover… Let me tell you a cautionary tale. In 1951 this Producer, whose illustrious career spanned the eras from Valentino’s “The Sheik” to Elizabeth Taylor’s “Cleopatra” had a horrible fit of jealousy. I present Walter Wanger: He was married to the incandescent, Joan Bennett. Joan Bennett had a rep named Jennings Lang who was high in the strata of MCA, a talent agency that […]

Categories: Architecture, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, law, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: "Cleopatra", "temporary insanity", "The Sheik", "Twilight", actress, affair, agent, court, Defense, jealousy, Jennings Lang, Jerry Giesler, Joan Bennett, Kristen Stewart, MCA, producer, Robert Pattinson, Rupert Sanders, shooting, Walter Wanger

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DR. STRANGELOVE

June 16, 2012 by Vickie Lester

Scheduled for release by Columbia Pictures in early fall, Dr. Strangelove is being shot in England, it was explained, to accommodate Peter Sellers, who was unable to leave the country for domestic reasons. In addition to the President, the protean Sellers also plays the title role of a German scientist, a Texas pilot of an H-bomber headed inexorably for Russia, and an R.A.F. exchange officer. What roles are left are handled by Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, James Earl […]

Categories: Culture, Design, Entertainment, History, Movies, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: 1964, Artic, change, classic, Coca-Cola, director, DR. STRANGELOVE, England, Keenan Wynn, movie, movie history, Movie stars, movies, New York Times, on location, operator, payphone, Peter Sellers, shooting, Stanley Kubrick, tea break

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