O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright
I felt a catch in my throat when I heard that Olivia Hussey had died at 73. She will always be Juliet to me, a role I saw her play in a movie theater in 1968 when the Zefferelli film … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Movies
RIP Teri Garr
Actress Teri Garr has died at 79, with her cause of death listed as multiple sclerosis. Garr started as a dancer but became known for mostly comic roles: Garr’s big break came with her role as Inga, Frankenstein’s assistant, in … Continue reading →
Serenade: how to film ballet
Or how not to film ballet. I admit it’s a very difficult task. Film flattens a three-dimensional highly spatial art into two dimensions of flatness. Dance’s impact can only really be made in space, which allows for perspective and weight. … Continue reading →
The Idiocracy of Tim Walz
The self-described knucklehead doesn’t even know what a venture capitalist is: “Sen. Vance became a media darling. He wrote a book about the place he grew up. But the premise was trashing that place he grew up rather than lifting … Continue reading →
Trump, fate, and his convention speech
This is why I put up that clip from The Day of the Jackal yesterday: Former President Donald Trump can’t stop thinking about the way he moved his head in the split second before a gunman, intent on assassinating him, … Continue reading →
Cruising with Bond. James Bond.
Here’s an article purporting to rank the James Bond films in ascending order. I saw a few of the early films, but I haven’t seem most of them on the list. So I can’t do my own ranking. But I … Continue reading →
Griffin Dunne’s memoir sounds interesting
Who’s Griffin Dunne?, you might ask. He’s an actor I first became familiar with from the Scorcese film “After Hours.” I saw it in a movie theater when it first came out in 1985, and I think that although the … Continue reading →
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It’s been raining today.
Continue reading →Lawfare against Trump: all that matters are results
I’ve had a number of interesting – although short – conversations with friends about the lawfare cases against Trump. A pattern has emerged: they’re upset that the cases have been stalled, and they perceive the courts and prosecutors as going … Continue reading →
Hollywood’s cause du jour now seems to be supporting Hamas through a ceasefire
The trend-setting accessory of the evening last night at the Oscars was a little pin that has been described in several different ways. I had trouble finding a closeup, but here’s the way it was described by those advocating its … Continue reading →
I saw Peter Ustinov in a YouTube video and I started to wonder about his life
And so I looked him up. Want to see something complicated? From Ustinov’s Wiki page: Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov was born at 45 Belsize Park, London, England. His father, Jona Freiherr von Ustinov, was of Russian, German, Polish, Ethiopian … Continue reading →
Natasha and Andrei dance
Same scene, two versions of War and Peace. Hollywood, circa 1956. Ferrer and Hepburn were married in real life at the time: Here’s the Russian version made in the 1960s, which I saw in movie theaters long ago. I found … Continue reading →