22 Monday Dec 2025
Posted in Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Music, Non-Fiction
≈ Comments Off on 2025: A Year in Music
Tags
2025, A Year in Music, Bedtime Stories, Blondie, Bluebird, Clem Burke, Confessions on a Dancefloor, Ezra Furman, Father John Misty, Henry Come On, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, Katherine Priddy, Lana Del Rey, Lisa MacKinney, Madonna, Mani, Marianne Faithfull, Suede, The Bangles, The Shangri-Las, The Stone Roses, Veronica Electronica
With old favourites promising new music for next year, 2025 became a waiting game. Continue reading
26 Thursday Dec 2024
Posted in Books, Lana Del Rey, Music, Non-Fiction
≈ Comments Off on 2024: A Year in Music
10 Tuesday Sep 2024
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Music, Television, Theatre
≈ Comments Off on Rosalina Neri: From ‘La Marilyn Italiana’ to Milanese Diva
Tags
Arthur Miller, Diana Dors, Italy, ITV, Jack Hylton, John F. Kennedy, Lookalikes, Marilyn Monroe, Milan, Opera, Rosalina Neri, The Misfits
Rosalina Neri, the singer and actress known as ‘la Marilyn Italiana’ (or ‘Marilina’) has died aged 96 after a short illness. Continue reading
18 Thursday Jan 2024
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Music, Non-Fiction
≈ Comments Off on Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
Tags
42nd Street, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Alice Faye, Bernard F. Dick, Betty Grable, Broadway, Carousel, Darryl F. Zanuck, Down Boy, Fred Karger, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, George Cukor, How to Be Very Very Popular, How to Marry a Millionaire, Howard Hawks, Irving Berlin, Jane Russell, Jayne Mansfield, June Haver, Ladies of the Chorus, Let's Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Musicals, Orson Welles, Richard Zanuck, River of No Return, Sheree North, Shirley Temple, Something's Got To Give, Sonja Henie, The Girl Can't Help It, The Jazz Singer, There's No Business Like Show Business, Twentieth Century Fox, Vivian Blaine, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
Bernard F. Dick, a professor of English and communication at Fairleigh-Dickson University in New Jersey, has published many titles on the classical era of Hollywood film-making, covering a wide range of figures like producers Harry Cohn and Hal B. Wallis; directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Billy Wilder; actresses Claudette Colbert and Rosalind Russell; and the blacklisted Hollywood Ten. In his 2018 book, That Was Entertainment, Dick hailed the MGM musical as the genre’s ‘Gold Standard,’ reeling off a list of the studio’s all-time greats from The Wizard of Oz to Singin’ in the Rain. Continue reading
28 Thursday Dec 2023
Posted in Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Music, Updates
≈ Comments Off on 2023: A Year in Music
Tags
A Certain Ratio, A Year in Music, A&W, Alma Mater, Avalanche of Love, Bleachers, Burt Bacharach, Candy Necklace, Celebration Tour, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Elvis Presley, God Games, Holly MacVe, Hollywood Bowl, Ireland, John Denver, Jon Batiste, LA Hex, Lana Del Rey, Life Lesson, Lost at Sea, Madonna, Mitski, My Love Mine All Mine, Nothing Really Matters, People Say, Rob Grant, Samo, Say Yes to Heaven, Shane McGowan, Sinead O’Connor, Steve Mason, Suburban House, The Kills, The Pogues, Tina Turner, W.I.T.C.H.
Lana Del Rey’s ‘diarist era’ has surely reached its apogee with Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard. Sprawling, eccentric, and soul-baring, it has more in common with her poetry than previous albums. In a female-dominated race, her five Grammy nominations include the supremely dark A&W, hailed by many as song of the year; while the jazz-inflected Candy Necklace has already nabbed two MTV awards. Continue reading
Tara Hanks 
You must be logged in to post a comment.