Sooner Or Later: Madonna and Stephen Sondheim
30 Tuesday Nov 2021
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Dick Tracy, I'm Breathless, Madonna, Mandy Patinkin, More, Oscars, Send in the Clowns, Sooner or Later, Stephen Sondheim, Warren Beatty, What Can You Lose
When the news broke on Friday, November 26, that the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim had died aged 91, the world’s theatrical community went into mourning. That evening, fans lined up outside Marie’s Crisis Café, a piano bar in Greenwich Village, to sing and grieve together. On Sunday, crowds gathered for a tribute performance in Times Square, and in London’s West End, theatre lights were dimmed. Continue reading
Charles ‘Jerry’ Juroe’s Year With Marilyn
11 Monday Oct 2021
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Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli, Arthur P. Jacobs, Charles 'Jerry' Juroe, Colin Clark, Johnny Hyde, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Milton Greene, My Week With Marilyn, Pat Newcomb, Peter Sellers, The Prince And The Showgirl
Jerry Juroe with Marilyn at the Savoy Hotel, July 1956
Legendary movie publicist Charles ‘Jerry’ Juroe has died aged 98, Variety reports.
He was born in San Francisco, and as a child, attended an unforgettable North Beach baseball game with his father. “At that time its star player was probably better known because of his elder brother, Vince, who played in the minor league,” Juroe wrote in his 2018 memoir. “When a little boy meets a baseball player (even a sandlot level one), he is impressed only by his size and the aura of his uniform; but all my adult life I recalled with pride and awe meeting Joe DiMaggio at the very start of his storied career. To think that one day I would work in London, England, for a woman he married is a ‘bridge too far’ in anyone’s life of amazing coincidences.” Continue reading
Donald Zec: Marilyn’s Man at ‘The Mirror’
09 Thursday Sep 2021
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Arthur Miller, Bus Stop, Colin Clark, Daily Mirror, Donald Zec, Let's Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, Niagara, The Mirror, The Prince And The Showgirl
Donald Zec, the British journalist who covered show-business for the Daily Mirror over four decades, has died at the grand old age of 102. Continue reading
SOLEDAD #6: Lana’s ‘Violet,’ Nouchka Van Brakel, and More
08 Sunday Aug 2021
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Jenny H. Batlay, Lana Del Rey, Marcelline Block, Nouchka Van Brakel, Ruth LaSure, Sam Nortey Jr., Samm Deigan, Soledad, Sunmates, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, World War II
Issue 6 of SOLEDAD Arts Journal – out now via Amazon for just £3.13 in the UK, or $3.78 across the pond – is also the 20th volume from Nostalgia Kinky Publications, including predecessor ART DECADES (and I’m proud to have appeared in all but five.) This issue is peppered with lyrics from French singer-songwriter Véronique Sanson.
The cover story is an exclusive interview with Dutch filmmaker Nouchka Van Brakel, in conjunction with a new triple-boxset on Blu-Ray from Cult Epics. Editor Jeremy Richey has also spoken with film historian Samm Deigan about his new book, The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema. Marcelline Block interviews author Sam Nortey Jr., who shares an extract from his novel, Thumbwars. Marcelline also contributes a scrapbook history of feminist artist and scholar, Jenny H. Batlay. There’s poetry from Marcelline and Ruth LaSure, and Emily Clare Bryant meets Sunmates, a synth-pop band from Lexington, Kentucky.
And finally, I’ve written a 24-page essay on Lana Del Rey’s debut poetry book/spoken-word album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. I hope you’ll enjoy delving into this fascinating project as much as I did.
‘I Told You I Was Trouble’: Amy Winehouse, 10 Years Gone
23 Friday Jul 2021
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Amy Winehouse, Amy Winehouse and Me, Art Decades, Asif Kapadia, Beyond Black, Brighton, Clare Pollard, Dionne Bromfield, Lana Del Rey, My Amy, Naomi Parry, Reclaiming Amy, Roger Sargent, Tyler James
This photo, taken by Roger Sargent, shows Amy Winehouse on Brighton Beach in July 2004, before that night’s show at Concorde 2. She was 20 years old, promoting her debut album, Frank, and wowing the locals. When she returned two years later, her ‘Rehab’ single was a runaway hit and her second album, Back to Black, would become one of the 21st century’s essential records. Continue reading
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