Tag: movies
June 3, 2013 /

DR. STRANGELOVE

Scheduled for release by Columbia Pictures in early fall, Dr. Strangelove is being shot in England, it was explained, to accommodate Peter Sellers, who was unable to leave the country for domestic reasons. In addition to the President, the protean Sellers also plays the title role of a German scientist,…

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May 31, 2013 /

HEADSHOT – KIRK DOUGLAS

May 28, 2013 /

JEAN HARLOW AT HOME

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May 23, 2013 /

PREMIERE OF GRAND HOTEL AT GRAUMAN’S CHINESE – 1932

I remember seeing an item in the Hollywood Reporter a little while ago about the lack of skilled and seasoned producers in the industry. One of the anonymous sources cited a corporate culture at fault for eviscerating art and concentrating on profit. He/she bemoaned the emphasis on product, as if…

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May 20, 2013 /

I PUSHED THE SEND BUTTON – AND THE MANUSCRIPT IS TRAVELING THROUGH THE TUBES

May 12, 2013 /

FADE OUT – PART TWO BY GEORGE KAPLAN

FADE OUT . His memories shifted to his second wife Gerda, a striking woman twenty years his senior, a woman, suffice to say, with “connections” in the industry. Another woman with a great belief in him, another woman who he had loved, but used. Yet, it was different with Gerda,…

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May 11, 2013 /

FADE OUT – PART ONE BY GEORGE KAPLAN

FADE OUT Jake Toper looked into the mirror and watched himself disintegrate. Still recognizable as the handsome, virile matinee idol of the ’30s and ’40s he may have been but the features that always leaned toward cragginess had long since begun to crumble. In a way, Toper was glad. Here…

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May 7, 2013 /

HOWARD HAWKS

I understand Howard Hawks enjoyed talking to young people: And, mentoring talent: “We discovered Bacall was a little girl who, when she becomes insolent, becomes rather attractive. That was the only way you noticed her, because she could do it with a grin. So I said to Bogey, “We are…

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April 21, 2013 /

SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM – KATHARINE

April 11, 2013 /

PANTAGES – AND OH THAT ART DECO – LOUNGE