Regardless of the many revisions,Who Framed Roger Rabbitis a tightly structured classical noir script. Every line of dialogue sets up a subsequent plot detail or comic reward; every detail on the screen has a payoff later in the film. Within its noir structure, the script also creates distinct...
Calling it a trend, she wrote that “most of them seem to be pursuing a ‘do-it-yourself’ program of experimentation with various formulations” of estrogen on the market. Trans women often wrote into such newsletters looking for advice on this subject, but Douglas, like many of her peers...
Joan Crawford,Our Dancing Daughters(1928) However, in 1920 the word “flapper” meant something a little different. It gradually evolved into its current meaning over the course of the decade. Continue reading→ 2 Comments After the two tropical island ‘quickies’ I wrote about in my last pos...
The director wrote that Easter thought Peters had called her son “intellectually slow, not pokey slow.”Peters adored the Easters’ son. She knew him as a quiet kid, smart, prone to daydream, a participant in the school arts program that she had worked hard to keep alive. He would ...
"This album is almost all new songs written last year, with just two exceptions. There is no theme, no concept, no story, just a set of songs that I – and my brother Simon – wrote to give Roger Daltrey some inspiration, challenges and scope for his newly revived singing voice," add...
During his professorship, Nibley wrote articles for scholarly publications and for official LDS Church publications. Nibley published multiple series of articles in the Improvement Era as well as An Approach to the Book of Mormon, which was the lesson manual for Melchizedek priesthood lessons in ...
Aside from her hosting duties, she also wrote several best-selling cookbooks such as The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook (1999) and Barefoot Contessa Parties! (2001), and launched her own food line, all successful ventures that expanded her brand and solidified her status as one of the most loved...
her final interview reveals her disillusionment with the whole affair: “I had asked if many friends had called up to rally round when she was fired by Fox,”wroteLifeeditor Richard Meryman. “There was silence, and sitting very straight, eyes wide and hurt, she had answered with a tiny ...
appearing in films like the children’s movieSpaceCampand the TV seriesMurder She Wrotein the 1980s. His major breakthrough as an adult was inTo Die For, Gus Van Sant’s darkly comic thriller from 1995 that starred Nicole Kidman as a femme fatale in a small town who dreams of ...
Samuel Lyman Marshall, who was known as S.L.A. Marshall, who wrote about the refusal to fire during World War II in his book, "Men Against Fire." Way that Marshall is considered one of the great military historians of the U.S.; Biographical information on Marshall; Mention of Marshall...