Category: Truth & Rumors

February 21, 2013 /

THE ROMANCE OF BLACK AND WHITE AT UNION STATION

February 21, 2013 /

THE INESTIMABLE: BILLY WILDER

That’s the director, lurking in the background, with his trademark owl framed spectacles. When I was a tyke my father took me to a retrospective screening at the DGA of SOME LIKE IT HOT – a then elderly Billy Wilder and Tony Curtis presided. The screening was packed and the…

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February 20, 2013 /

ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S CLEOPATRA

Rumor has it David Fincher has the rights to Stacy Schiff’s, “Cleopatra: a Life”- by the way, an excellent read. But, back in the early sixties the most expensive film ever produced was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by the formerly gun toting Walter Wagner. http://vickielester.com/?s=darling%2C+please+don%27t+shoot+my+agent It was a…

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February 18, 2013 /

OSCAR’S JOURNEY – 1948

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

February 17, 2013 /

BARRY LYNDON – IN LA

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 /

2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY – IN LA

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

February 17, 2013 /

DR. STRANGELOVE IN LA – DESIGNED BY KEN ADAM (Sir Ken Adam)

February 17, 2013 /

SPARTACUS – WRITTEN BY BLACKLISTED DALTON TRUMBO

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…

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February 17, 2013 /

STANLEY KUBRICK IN LA – AT LACMA

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 /

OSCARS – THE LOST WEEKEND

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.