When I was in college, that’s exactly what I thought. Then I finished school and started working, and people around me kept reinforcing the idea of prolonged youth. Do you babysit? You look like such a conscientious teenager! I’m actually a really inattentive adult—got a liquor cabinet?… I’m in! And…
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Joe wasn’t about to let up. “Everything the big studios do in Hollywood is predicated on the sexual fantasies of heterosexual fourteen-year-old boys. You understand what I’m saying?” “No.” “Leading men are straight. Period. On-screen and off. Cliff’s agency—Becky’s studio—raise fortunes based on that fantasy. Steve Nelson, he owns a…
BEGUILING MELODIES #1: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Lyrics by Dorothy Fielding, Music by Jimmy McHugh, as heard in Bringing Up Baby “It’s extraordinary how potent cheap music is.” Noel Coward’s Amanda speaks those words in Private Lives and wouldn’t it be difficult or even foolish to…
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…
A young actor anxious to establish his heterosexual cred strolling to Stage 4 at Warner Brothers recently spied a young starlet, of similarly scrumptious attitude. Networks and producers and attorneys were consulted and the fortunate two exchanged numbers. After some highly publicized outings to the Skybar, the Vanguard, and the…
Hawks’ friend (and Hepburn’s sometime-boyfriend) Howard Hughes finally suggested Cary Grant for the role. Grant had just finished shooting his breakthrough romantic comedy The Awful Truth, and Hawks may have seen a rough cut of the unreleased film. Grant then had a non-exclusive, four-picture deal with RKO for $50,000 per…
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…