30 Friday Dec 2022
Posted in Film, Jeanne Eagels
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A new digital restoration of Jeanne Eagels’ only surviving talking picture, The Letter (1929) will be screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York on January 13, 2023, at 5 pm. Continue reading
29 Thursday Dec 2022
Posted in Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Music
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A Year in Music, All the Good Times, And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow, Angel Olsen, Angelo Badalamenti, Big Time, Black Obsidian, Bobbie Gentry, Buddy's Rendezvous, Caitlin Rose, CAZEMI, Compilations, Country Music, David Lynch, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Dream-Pop, Euphoria, Father John Misty, Finally Enough Love, Fun Boy Three, Ghost Town, Grapevine, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Irene Cara, Julee Cruise, Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Remixes, Ronnie Spector, Ska, Soundtracks, Terry Hall, The Colourfield, The Girl From Chickasaw County, The Ronettes, The Specials, Watercolour Eyes, Weyes Blood
My favourite album of 2022 – Weyes Blood’s And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow – arrived quite recently. It’s dream-pop with passion, as Natalie Mering’s cut-glass vocal mines for hope amid post-pandemic isolation. Continue reading
28 Wednesday Dec 2022
Posted in Books, Fiction, Film, History, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Politics, Witchcraft
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A Year in Books, Asian American, Big Red, Daniel Wiles, Dawn, Four Treasures of the Sky, Ireland, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Jerome Charyn, Jill Dawson, Josephine Johnson, Kate Atkinson, Kate Meyrick, Leïla Slimani, Louise Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Maureen Freely, Mercia's Take, Michelle Morgan, Now in November, Ocean State, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Roaring Twenties, Sevgi Soysal, Shrines of Gaiety, Stewart O'Nan, The Bewitching, The Country of Others, Trespasses, Turkey, When Marilyn Met the Queen, Witches of Warboys
I read Kate Atkinson’s first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, back in the late 1990s; and finally returned to her this year with Shrines of Gaiety, a Roaring Twenties romp loosely inspired by the rackety life of London’s ‘Queen of Nightclubs,’ Kate Meyrick. I was pleased to note that Atkinson’s dry wit remains intact. Continue reading
11 Sunday Dec 2022
Posted in Art and Photography, Fashion and Beauty, Film, Theatre
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Andrew Logan, Carry On Screaming, Cathy Lomax, Cecil Beaton, Colette, Do You Mind If I Smoke?, Doctor in Clover, Federico Fellini, Fenella Fielding, Fenella Fielding: Actress, Fionn Wilson, Follow a Star, Gallery 286, Hedda Gabler, Helen of Troy, Jeanette Watkins, Martin Firrell, MetaFenella, Natalie Dowse, Norman Wisdom, Patrick Boyd, Sal Jones, Simon McKay, The Old Dark House, Vidal Sassoon
Fenella Fielding was eighty-three years old when, in 2011, she wandered into a pilates class and set down her mat a little too close to Simon McKay’s. He glared at her territorially and she stared back without hesitation. Eventually he smiled and they began to talk. After meeting a few more times, it dawned on him that she was that “gorgeous vamp” from Carry On Screaming. “Coffee became a regular thing and I quickly recognised the blindingly obvious: Fenella is an incredible raconteur,” Simon wrote. “I loved her stories and knew we had to do something with them.” Continue reading
26 Saturday Nov 2022
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
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Ann Karger, Conspiracy Theories, Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, Do It Again, Frank Sinatra, Fred Karger, How Wrong Can I Be, Jacqui Warren Rigoni, Jane Wyman, Jay Margolis, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Schenck, John F. Kennedy, Johnny Hyde, Johnny Warren, Ladies of the Chorus, Love Happy, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Karger, Michael Reagan, My Maril, Natasha Lytess, Patti Sacks Karger, Robert F. Kennedy, Terry Karger
My Maril: Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Hollywood, and Me is a new memoir by Terry Karger, daughter of Fred Karger, a composer, musician and bandleader who dated Marilyn in the late 1940s. Terry was Fred’s daughter from his first marriage. Marilyn remained close to the Kargers – especially Fred’s mother Ann and sister Mary – long after their relationship ended. Continue reading
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