Category: Hollywood

August 9, 2012 /

Hey, kittens! When it climbs into the hundreds we get to talk about the weather. It never snows here, except in 1932, and the big storm of 1949. New Yorkers might call it sweater weather when the thermometer plunges, but… Right now it’s positively toasty so take a gander at…

July 22, 2012 /
July 20, 2012 /

City Hall as seen by Ansel Adams on an overcast day in 1940: . Here is City Hall in “Gangster Squad”. Production Designer Maher Ahmad,  Cinematographer Dion Beebe, and Costume Designer Mary Zophres: . Check in tomorrow for an intimate peek at one recording artist’s beginnings in the 1960s…

July 13, 2012 /

This is getting rather sad… Here is a young Richard Zanuck with his parents skiing in Sun Valley, 1950. Anyway you slice it, he had a fabulous run. RIP:

July 10, 2012 /

We thank you for your amazing screen presence and wish you the happiest of times on your retirement.    

July 8, 2012 /

With director Fred Zinnemann on the set of “From Here to Eternity”.

April 20, 2012 /

As the millennium was about to turn a high rolling actor, after two chaste dates with someone very near and dear to my heart, invited her back East to meet his parents. You know, a girl takes an invitation like that quite seriously. (Although, she might not have been the…

April 13, 2012 /

. These excerpts are from an amazing and comprehensive interview conducted by Film Critic Henry Sheehan with Vincente Minnelli – the link to his site is at the bottom of the page. Q. Another film I’d like to talk about is a very early one, Madame Bovary (1949). If some…