On this overcast day in Southern California I wasn’t going to post anything in reference to 9/11 — more eloquent voices than mine have noted the passage of 16 years. I will just say this, a friend of mine was piloting one of the American Airlines flights up in the…
Tag: “Casablanca”
IT’S A mystery that involves Australia’s most prolific Academy Award winner, a missing manuscript and the Hollywood star who was once his lover. While few Australians have heard of the costume designer Orry-Kelly, he won three Oscars in the 1950s – for An American in Paris, Les Girls and Some…
WHAT IF…? You must remember this… Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. But there’s also the possibly mythical notion that Ronald Reagan could have played Rick in a lower-budget version, a notion that doesn’t bear thinking about amigos! Truth be told, original screenwriters Julius and Philip Epstein were asked…