Bacall with a few mugs, Humphrey Bogart among them, in the exemplary anti-fascist film To Have And Have Not, Howard Hawks, 1944. Here's the thing with Lauren Bacall: she turned up…
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In Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall, 1990. UPDATE: I wrote about Williams and his work for Vanity Fair Online, here.
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1) Music Without Words Is Kind Of Inherently Lame, No? In 1967, after the death of his Orchestra's vital composer, arranger, and pianist Billy Strayhorn (who succumbed to cancer at…
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So I was at the gym this morning and I put on TCM, as one does, and it took me just two shots to figure out the channel was showing…
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While John Michael McDonagh's Calvary opens with the words of St. Augustine, James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy opens with the sounds of 10cc's "I'm Not In Love." Now 10cc…
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From The King of Comedy, 1983 Today is the official publication day of my book Robert De Niro: Anatomy of an Actor. I'd be much obliged if you purchased a…
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