Mm hm. That’s pretty much what it looks like and that’s my knee in the bottom of the frame. It’s up under the rafters like Jo’s spot in “Little Woman”, it’s filled with books and a reading chair, and although I am forbidden to keep a stash of apples there—we…
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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…
Translation Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of carpō, “pick or pluck,” used by Ovid to mean “enjoy, seize, use, make use of”. Diem is the accusative case of the noun “dies”, that means “day”. A more literal translation of “Carpe diem” would thus be “enjoy the day”…
I wonder what he would have made of the Internet? Let’s roll it back a little. Mr. Hecht started as a Chicago journalist, he was lured to Hollywood by easy money, as related in his autobiography: The telegram he delivered on this spring day in 1925 came from the unknown…