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2016: A Year In Music

19 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by marina72 in Music

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A Year in Music, Blackstar, Coldcut, David Bowie, Hope Sandoval, Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles!, Leonard Cohen, Massive Attack, Only Heaven, Prince, Roots Manuva, Roses Gabor, The Bangles, The Spoils, Tricky, Until the Hunter

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2016 has been a year marked by loss: David Bowie, Prince and Leonard Cohen, to name but three giants who have left the stage. Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, spoke directly to our troubled times. Continue reading →

So Long, Leonard Cohen…

12 Saturday Nov 2016

Posted by marina72 in Music, Poetry

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Chelsea Hotel No. 2, Lana Del Rey, Leonard Cohen, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Sisters of Mercy, Winter Lady

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I first heard his music while watching Robert Altman’s anti-Western, McCabe and Mrs Miller, in Camden during the late eighties. That cinema is now long-gone, but the film – made not long before I was born – left a lasting impression. Continue reading →

Marilyn Monroe: A Day in the Life

01 Thursday Sep 2016

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

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April VeVea, Goodnight Marilyn, Immortal Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe: A Day in the Life

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April VeVea is a 26 year-old ‘Marilynista.’ “My knowledge of her started in 1993, when I was three, and saw a life size cut-out in an antique store,” she recalls. “Marilyn had her dress blowing over her head in the iconic Seven Year Itch dress. As her smile radiated through me all I could think about were two things: her beauty and that she would look better with longer hair.” April also maintains a highly regarded blog, examining popular myths about Marilyn’s life and death. Inspired by authors like Donald Spoto and Michelle Morgan, April has uncovered primary sources, including newspaper archives and original documents from auction catalogues. Continue reading →

Art Decades 8: Prince, Madonna and More

11 Thursday Aug 2016

Posted by marina72 in Madonna, Music, Periodicals

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Art Decades, Madonna, Prince

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“Most people are born dead/But I was born alive,” Prince Rogers Nelson sang on one of his final cuts, ‘Way Back Home.’ In Art Decades: Volume 8 I pay tribute to Prince and explore his volatile relationship with fellow pop icon Madonna. Continue reading →

Born On This Day: John Gilbert 1897-1936

10 Sunday Jul 2016

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Film, Jeanne Eagels

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Anna Karenina, Greta Garbo, Ina Claire, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, John Gilbert, Louis B. Mayer, Love, Man Woman and Sin, MGM, Monta Bell, Silent Movies, The Fires of Youth

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John Cecil Pringle was born on July 10, 1897, in Logan, Utah. His parents were both stock company actors, and after their divorce his mother married Walter Gilbert. After many years on the road, the family settled in California. Jack, as he was nicknamed, began working at Thomas Ince’s studio in 1915, graduating from bit parts to more substantial roles over the next five years. He married Olivia Burwell in 1918, but they separated a year later. Continue reading →

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