There’s a small readership sub-set who might enjoy Playboy Swings. And it’s not exactly fans of Playboy. In fact, if you’re looking to find out what Playboy Mansion guests might encounter in the waters of the […]
Ohhh, Taschen. Yummy, delectable, I-want-to-devour-you-whole Tahhhh-Shen. So beautiful. So sumptuous. SO expensive. And yet, somehow, worth every blessed cent. You taunt me with your provocatively packaged anthologies, teasing me with desire. I covet your sweetly binded […]
[pullquote cite=”Valeria Belleti” type=”center”]Dear Irma: …Ronald Colman was trying to do the Charleston and couldn’t—he looked awfully funny…”[/pullquote] So reads an excerpt from one of the more permanent fixtures on my bookshelf: a sweet little […]
“Hollywood at Home provides a unique behind-the-scenes look at the crossroads between the last real glamour years and the TV decade. It is a remarkable portrait of mid-century America.” So reads the back cover of […]
God bless public television. The public funded, by-the-bootstraps programming of the ’80s and ’90s, produced a seemingly endless wonderland of high-caliber, star-studded productions that, oh-so-cleverly, had education, not mere entertainments, at its core. From that […]
Have you ever heard anyone speak harshly of Myrna Loy? In fact, just the mere mention of her name elicits such a positive response it is hard not to crack a smile. My first encounter with […]
Jean Harlow epitomizes the essence of old Hollywood glamour and stardom. Although she died young, she has an immortal presence that has lasted for over 70 years. Perhaps it’s because we never saw her grow […]
The Dawn of Technicolor: (1915-1935) By James Layton and David Pierce Page count: 498 Publisher: George Eastman House List price: $65 The brilliant team of men and women knew exactly what they wanted. On […]
In his book Hollywood Genres, film scholar Thomas Schatz mobilizes an evolutionary model to describe film genres. For simplicity sake, Schatz posits that a genre essentially moves from classical to baroque in its style and conventions […]
85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards (Abbeville Press, 464 pages, $75) By Robert Osborne In 1979, Robert Osborne published the book 50 Golden Years of Oscar: The Official History […]
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