Children of Hollywood: Marilyn and Diana Herbert

25 Thursday Apr 2024

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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'I Never Took a Lesson in My Life', Arthur Miller, Colleen Townsend, Diana Herbert, Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe, Driving Miss Daisy, Endometriosis, F. Hugh Herbert, Helena Sorrell, House Un-American Activities Committee, Ian Ayres, John Gilmore, Johnny Hyde, Let's Make It Legal, Lon McCallister, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Remembered, Natalie Wood, Robert Karnes, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, Strictly for Kicks, Summer Lightning, Twentieth Century Fox, Walter Winchell, Warrensburg

Actress Diana Herbert, who met Marilyn Monroe on the set of her first movie, died aged 95 in Los Angeles on May 3, 2023. Continue reading →

2016: A Year In Non-Fiction

22 Thursday Dec 2016

Posted by marina72 in Amy Winehouse, Books, Brighton, Film, History, Lana Del Rey, Music, Non-Fiction, Politics, Witchcraft, Writing

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A Year in Books, Amy Winehouse, Another Day in the Death of America, BFI Stars, Blondie, British Witches of Sussex, Elena Ferrante, F.A. Mannan, Frances Farmer, Frantumaglia, Gary Younge, I'm Not In the Band, Jean Rhys, Journalism, Julie Christie, Lana Del Rey, Letters, Lyndsy Spence, Margaret Lockwood, Melanie Bell, Natalie Wood, Nathalie Leger, Peter Shelley, Rebecca Sullivan, Suite For Barbara Loden, Sylvia Patterson

British journalist Gary Younge has a sharp eye for how political events impact on ordinary lives. While living in Chicago, he investigated the stories behind the blunt statistics of ten children and teenagers shot dead in a single day. Never intrusive, but quietly devastating, Another Day in the Death of America illuminates with rare power. Continue reading →

2016: A Year On Film

20 Tuesday Dec 2016

Posted by marina72 in Film, Television

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A Year in Films and TV, American Honey, Andrea Arnold, Barbara Loden, Caroline Aherne, Casablanca, Hayley Squires, I Daniel Blake, Jean Alexander, Ken Loach, Madeleine LeBeau, Natalie Wood, Wanda

My favourite films this year were homegrown, showcasing what British cinema does best – not plummy period pieces, half-baked gangster flicks or corny rom-coms, but cutting-edge dramas with true grit. Continue reading →

Tara Hanks

~ Author of 'The Mmm Girl' and 'Wicked Baby'

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Children of Hollywood: Marilyn and Diana Herbert

2016: A Year In Non-Fiction

2016: A Year On Film