The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity
Category: Short Stories
Before you go barking mad, there are VERY strict rules now about babies working in film… Contrary to what he said, W.C. Fields doted on his grand-children, but I’m not so sure about Graham Greene: …It has always been my hobby in railway trains to visualize in a baby’s face…
…Fiction, which I believe suffers most from modern readership, is by definition not factual. It may be about the real world and it may try to illuminate some facts about the real world or how real people behave in it or, as is so often the case in modern literature,…
Here’s a true story, I was once in the parking garage, way underground, at the corporate headquarters of Coca-Cola in Atlanta and driving down, down, down, into a cavern tinted green with florescent light I passed a fleet of white forty foot long trucks with black lettering on them, and…
I have been out of sorts lately, it seems to be going around. The kindly gentleman above, however, remembered something I had said years ago, and it turns out he looks every month for a funny little ad I said, had it been within my power, I would have bestowed…
Yes, a really static shot of a bunch of people who made motion picture magic… Elected officers and board of directors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 15, 1932. Left to right, seated, Al Cohn, B. P. Schulberg, Benjamin Glazer, new vice president; Conrad Nagel,…