Tag: film

February 24, 2013 /

BILLY WILDER TELLS LOUIS B. MAYER TO F-HIMSELF

Via my friend Martin: Sat, February 23, 2013 2:31:06 PM Sunset Boulevard – At Oscar time I thought we could use a Billy Wilder comment! Martin In Hollywood, Paramount arranged a private screening for the various studio heads and specially invited guests. ” Louis B. Mayer berated Wilder before the…

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February 22, 2013 /

SWING TIME AND THE INESTIMABLE: HERMES PAN

Hermes Pan choreographed everything from “Swing Time” in 1936 to Elizabeth Taylor’s “Cleopatra” (including the spectacle – dancers, warriors, witch doctor’s, elephants, and zebras – that was Cleopatra’s procession into Rome). Pictured above with Ginger Rogers, he was a soft-spoken gregarious man who was loved by his dancers. Recently a…

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February 22, 2013 /

IT HAD TO BE YOU…YOU…OR YOU

Player? Serial monogamist? Peter Pan? Lothario? Why label? Some people’s libido does not wane with the years. Let’s just say a charming actor confided to me over lunch he absolutely loves women. I’ll say. After dating a cavalcade of beauties, and entering his fifth decade, his ardor remains fierce. While…

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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 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: