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Peter Bogdanovich: From Marilyn’s Classmate to Hollywood Auteur

06 Thursday Jan 2022

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Peter Bogdanovich, the filmmaker, actor and historian, has died of natural causes at home in Los Angeles, aged 82. He was born in Kingston, New York in 1939, to immigrant parents who had recently fled Nazi-occupied Europe. Herma, his mother, was an Austrian-born Jew; while his father Borislav, a painter and pianist, was a Serbian Orthodox Christian. Peter attended classes at the Actors Studio as a teenager, and later studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory. Continue reading →

2021: A Year in Books

24 Friday Dec 2021

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction

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A Year in Books, A.K. Blakemore, Agnes of Little Neon, Ailsa McFarlane, All I Could Never Be, Amanda Smyth, Anzia Yezierska, Attia Hosain, Bette Howland, Claire Keegan, Claire Luchette, Claudia Hernandez, David Bushman, Eve Babitz, Fortune, Gayl Jones, Glenn Stout, Hazel Drew, Highway Blue, In the Shadow of the Yali, Joan Didion, Julia Laite, Laura Palmer, Lilian Pizzichini, Mariella Novotny, Mark T. Givens, Monique Roffey, Murder at Teal's Pond, Nadifa Mohamed, Nervous Conditions, Palmares, Post-Colonial Writers, Profumo Affair, Slash and Burn, Small Things Like These, Suat Derviş, Sunlight On a Broken Column, The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey, The Fortune Men, The Manningtree Witches, The Mermaid of Black Conch, The Novotny Papers, Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Trinidad, True Crime, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Turkey, Twin Peaks, W-3, Zimbabwe

Among all the great new writing and reissues I’ve found this year, it’s clear that the world of books, like film, is becoming ever more diverse and we are all richer for it. After a long absence, Gayl Jones returned with the monumental Palmares, following a woman’s epic journey from slavery to an embattled free settlement and beyond. Set in 17th century Brazil, this story contains multitudes, offering an extraordinary meditation on the cost of freedom. Continue reading →

2021: A Year in Film and TV

23 Thursday Dec 2021

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction

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A Year in Films and TV, Alexandre Rockwell, Barry Jenkins, Billie Holiday, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, Chase Dillon, Chloe Zhao, Colson Whitehead, David Simon, Denmark, Diana Dors, Docudrama, HBO, I Never Cry, Jane Russell, Jeanette Nordahl, Joel Edgerton, John Garfield, Lana Rockwell, Marilyn Monroe, Melina León, Nella Larsen, Passing, Perry Mason, Peru, Piotr Domalewski, Rebecca Hall, Robert Machoian, Ross Brothers, Ruth Negga, Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Song Without A Name, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Sweet Thing, The Killing of Two Lovers, The Plot Against America, The Roads Not Taken, The Underground Railroad, Thuso Mbedu, Wildland, Will Patton, Zoe Kazan, Zofia Stafiej

After Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins triumphs again with his serial adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s historical fantasy, The Underground Railroad. As fugitive Cora, actress Thuso Mbedu is a guiding light, with able support from Joel Edgerton and Chase Dillon as her relentless pursuers. This small-screen masterwork is the cinematic event of the year. Continue reading →

2021: A Year in Music

23 Thursday Dec 2021

Posted by marina72 in Amy Winehouse, Books, Film, Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Music, Non-Fiction, Television

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A Year in Music, Ace Records, Alabama 3, Amy Winehouse, Barrie-James, Beyond Black, Blue Banisters, Charlie Watts, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Choctaw Ridge, Documentaries, Instead of Dreaming, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, Kate Solomon, Lana Del Rey, Lives of the Musicians, Lyndsy Spence, Madame X, Madonna, Maria Callas, Marissa Nadler, Naomi Parry, Nico, Rickie Lee Jones, Riverside, Rolling Stones, Sleep Walk, Tyler James, Yolanda

As the world’s big sleep entered its second year, Lana Del Rey turned away from social media and gave us not just one, but two albums: Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters. Continue reading →

Sooner Or Later: Madonna and Stephen Sondheim

30 Tuesday Nov 2021

Posted by marina72 in Film, Madonna, Music, Theatre

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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 →

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