As Redgraves go, she was one who—how to put this?—appeared to take herself far less seriously than others in her clan, and she left an impression of high-spiritedness and good-heartedness…
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Today, in Salon, I recount a brief history of the teen horror film. No, really. It's pegged, as they say in the biz, to last Friday's release of that remake…
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Ah, Preminger. The obstreperous Otto. Is that an apt description of the man? Probably not entirely, but some sort of alliterative description sometimes seems de rigueur when contemplating such figures.…
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Good morning. You will see a new feature added on your right, a small tip jar. I have long resisted "monetizing" this blog, in no small part because I hate…
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