09 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Books, Film, Non-Fiction
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Mary Ann Anderson was a friend and business manager to the actress and film director, Ida Lupino, for over a decade. She has also contributed to two books on the star, and has now written a biography, Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera, featuring rare photos, press clippings, and transcribed interviews. Continue reading
06 Tuesday Mar 2012
The House on Paradise Street is a wonderful new novel by Sofka Zinovieff, looking at love, politics and war in Greece, past and present, through the contrasting viewpoints of two women from the same Athenian family. You can read my review at For Books’ Sake.
06 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
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Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Frank Sinatra, George Cukor, Howard Hughes, Jack Cardiff, Joe Mankiewicz, John F. Kennedy, John Huston, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Rooney, Peter Evans
Milton Greene, 1953
A brunette and a blonde, born four years apart and raised in Depression era America: both found fame in post-war Hollywood, where their mythic beauty inspired directors, lovers and poets. Continue reading
24 Friday Feb 2012
Posted in Books, Madonna, Music, Non-Fiction
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My review of Madonna & Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop, a new anthology from Soft Skull Press, is published today at For Books’ Sake
20 Monday Feb 2012
You can read my profile of author Carson McCullers – born on February 19, 1917 – at For Books’ Sake
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