Tag: by George Kaplan
May 22, 2014 /

Beguiling Melodies #2 Donnie Darko (2001) by George Kaplan

Some movies are ahead of their time, some movies are out of time, and some movies are released at precisely the wrong time. Donnie Darko was all three. It’s release date? The Eleventh of September 2001… It is a dark and strange film…and did I mention that someone dies (or…

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May 7, 2014 /

Thoughts on music in movies, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, by George Kaplan

May 7, 2014 /

Thoughts on Bringing Up Baby (1938), by George Kaplan

BEAUTIFUL BABY! A paleontologist with a missing bone; a crazily adorable heiress; a refrigerator-cold fiancee; two (that’s TWO!) leopards, one of which is wild, the other named Baby with a love and with a love for the song “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby”; “I’ll be with you…

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May 7, 2014 /

Behind the scenes on Bringing Up Baby, with a mirror, ham, and Cary Grant…

August 25, 2013 /

Irene Dunne reads on set

August 25, 2013 /

Elizabeth Taylor reads on the set of “Cleopatra”

August 24, 2013 /

THE WORLD IN A LIBRARY – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE WORLD IN A LIBRARY Depending on what source you read, either printed books or e-readers are doomed. Traditional publishing is in chaos while technology is opening up new avenues for innovation (some of which are being used by the hugely talented weblogsmith of this very site, Mrs Vickie Lester!).…

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August 24, 2013 /

Robert Montgomery checks out a volume on “Behaviorism”

August 24, 2013 /

Claudette Colbert reads

August 24, 2013 /

Jean Harlow reads on the lot