Back Row Brighton

17 Thursday Dec 2009

Posted by in Art and Photography, Books, Brighton, Film, History, Non-Fiction

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Back Row Brighton: Cinema-Going in Brighton and Hove is the latest offering from Queenspark Books, a community publisher since 1974. Specialising in the reminiscences of local people, and writing and editing with volunteers, Queenspark has created a unique, alternate history of Brighton. It also provides a focus for aspiring writers with a number of ongoing courses, groups and workshops, and is used as a learning resource by schools in the area.

Given its cultural atmosphere and lively past, it is perhaps unsurprising that Brighton has played a part in the evolution of cinema, from the camera’s invention until the present day. Continue reading →

Simply Divine

08 Tuesday Dec 2009

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Thanks to Faye L. Booth for giving me the above blog award! It seems that I now have to nominate five people for the award myself and fill in a meme questionnaire thingy, so here goes.

My Nominees

1. Bad Witch One of the most fascinating pagan blogs I’ve read.

2. Draw Something Awful Artist Elizabeth Grammaticas’ paintings of Marilyn Monroe, based on James Haspiel’s candid photos, are inspiring.

3. Marilyn Monroe Collection Scott Fortner’s blog is the place to go for all MM-related news.

4. Moon in the Gutter Exploring hidden gems of cinema and music over the last few decades.

5. Hoydens and Firebrands Womens’ lives in the early modern period under the microscope. Continue reading →

Marilyn and ‘Baby Doll’

04 Friday Dec 2009

Posted by in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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This article can also be read on the Immortal Marilyn website

American Child-Woman: Marilyn Monroe and Baby Doll

‘In her movies,’ Marie Clayton wrote in Unseen Archives, her 2005 pictorial biography of Marilyn Monroe, ‘she projected a unique and fascinating persona — a child-woman who was both innocent and full of sexuality, someone men desired, but women found unthreatening. In real life,’ Clayton adds, ‘she was a beautiful and complex woman with deep insecurities, who just wanted to be loved.’ Continue reading →

Penny McGuiggan

18 Wednesday Nov 2009

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Sweet Sue's Band

'Some Like It Hot', 1959

Penny McGuiggan, a trumpeter and actress who appeared in Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 gangster spoof, Some Like It Hot, has died. Her (then uncredited) role was as a member of Sweet Sue’s Society Syncopators, an all-girl jazz band headed by conductor Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee), singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), and their hapless, bespectacled male manager, Bienstock (Dave Barry.) Continue reading →