Category: Life

February 18, 2013 /

From inspection at the fabricators: To Oscar’s big night out:

February 17, 2013 /

Lady Lyndon on screen in a shimmery blue gown – scenes were shot in natural light and candlelight with special lenses to capture the look of 18th Century paintings. Costumes designed by Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Søderlund: .

February 17, 2013 /

This is a set model – it’s hanging just above eye level in the gallery. Shooting on the set:

February 17, 2013 /
February 17, 2013 /

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted at the time as one of the Hollywood Ten. Kirk Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus, and President John F. Kennedy crossed picket lines to see the movie, helping to end blacklisting. via Spartacus (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The…

February 17, 2013 /

This exhibit is comprehensive, illuminating, beautiful – and on the way in you can stand in the funny linear yellow tube field with all the toddlers. Me and The Kid:

February 17, 2013 /

See, four Oscars – I forgot to mention Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett won best screenplay as well. It’s been a harbinger of things to come for a long time… Billy Wilder wins Best Director for “The Lost Weekend” at the Golden Globes.

February 16, 2013 /

…They arrived at the Beverly Hilton Hotel at around eleven. The lobby was straight out of the fifties, walls and floor of stone, star burst chandeliers, and the ballroom, while it still maintained a sinuous two-tiered design like that of a cruise ship, was carpeted with some dreadful dark jewel…

February 15, 2013 /

Meteor shards hit Russia after explosion in the sky – video | World news | guardian.co.uk. The Tunguska Event – 1908 Hollywood pales in comparison. And as scientists tried to piece together the chain of events that led to Friday’s disaster — on the very day a small asteroid passed…

February 14, 2013 /