Some years ago in The New York Times, Nora Johnson called Merton of the Movies“>Merton of the Movies one of the Hollywood novels that had become “dated as old valentines in their innocence and their view of the movie capitol as exciting, amusing, certainly loony, but harmless on the who...
Hollywood Vice Squad: Regia di Penelope Spheeris. Con Ronny Cox, Frank Gorshin, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Trish Van Devere. A mother goes to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter. The Vice Squad discovers that a dangerous gangster has turned the girl into one
Interestingly, even as the world was moving closer to women’s rights in the 1960s, the film producers made the women in Bond movies seem more reliant on him than they were in the 1950s Fleming novels, more often getting themselves out of jams and coming to his rescue. And the Bond of...
If it’s a job in Hollywood and you’re out of shark repellent, barbed spears, and a protective underwater cage, you could do worse than arm yourself with Carole M. Kirshner’s enlightening book,Hollywood Game Plan. Get your copyhere. Mark: 8.5 out of 11 Book ReviewCarole M KirschnerFil...
I was told a marvellous story about a time when both Korngold and Steiner were walking together on the Warners’ lot. Apparently, they were not the best of friends. Steiner reportedly asked Korngold, ‘So, tell me, Erich, how come my music is getting better and yours is getting worse?’...
This is one depraved individual. What is worse is that others knew about it, participated and didn’t say a word. Anyone (including Hillary and Al Sharpton below) should be charged along with him. Good chance that when the burn in hell, they will likely be one of the 72 virgins for ...
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different movie. The idea is to put them both out on disc. But for the most part, I’m a believer in your first impulse being the right one. And I certainly think that most of the seventies directors who have gone back in and tinkered with their movies have made them worse. ...
Telling some guy not to look inside, under some threat, would probably work every time, the guy would be afraid of being fired, killed, or worse, having his nuts cut off. Telling that to a curious woman…it’s almost a joke. When Judy looked inside the envelope, she counted out $75...
Rachel: I’m probably more social than the stereotypical introvert. I like being around people, but I also need a lot of down time so I can read and write and do introverted things. I can’t imagine many things worse than being forced to work ten hours a day in a crowded cubicle sur...