So said Darryl F. Zanuck after viewing Mr. Gable’s screen test for “Little Caesar”, and the rest is history. What can I say, but film executives have their ups and downs. Film making is a funny, as in odd, endeavor. From the studio system’s inception top spots in the business…
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I may be just about three Chardonnays past I don’t give a damn… I could talk about a few producers (like the extra dozen listed in the credits) not knowing a damn thing about film production, or I could talk about directors who…or that actor, when he… Hand me that…
Carmen De Lavallade and Wesley (Hello, Wesley!) Fata dance (wow, do they dance!) to the Soul Bossa Nova, composed and performed by Quincy Jones. *** A darling friend, who is Lost in Arles, tells us the most glorious things about Mr. Fata, and what we glean is that he is…
“How to define Elizabeth, my god… I think the best way to describe her is she’s an Earth Mother. And she cares for everybody and everything. She cares. She believes in people.” Rock Hudson
No matter how you design it, or chart it out, things change. This Friday, past the end of business hours I heard some astonishing news. My joint-publishing partners were no longer a publishing entity. Partnerships dissolve, other opportunities arise… People move on. And while it’s felt these past few months…
“He’s a local. He’s a fixture in this neighborhood,” said Christian McCulloch, 39, who said that he lives nearby. “You see him with his kids in the coffee shops, he is so sweet. It’s desperately sad.” At a short distance from the crowd, two men who identified themselves as friends…