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Snapshots
— Still making my way thru War and Peace, a couple chapters a day. Still only on page 540 … but it’s riveting. It’s not a boring read and even the long sections about the freemasons end up adding to … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Andrei Rublev, Dean Martin, Hope, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shirley MacLaine, snapshots, The Seagull, Vincente Minnelli, War and Peace
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“Dean’s hands were the size of ham hocks”
Again, an anecdote from Shirley Maclaine’s My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir [these quotes are from one of her 123 autobiographies, most of which I have read. What can I say. I’m a whore for a good theatrical actor anecdote, … Continue reading
Dino’s Fathering Techniques
Again, Shirley Maclaine [these quotes are from one of her 25 autobiographies. The one called My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir]: My initial impression of [Dean Martin] was of a man who basically wanted to be left alone. He was … Continue reading
The “menefreghista”
Excerpt from My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir: Shirley Maclaine on Dean Martin [the second movie she did was with them – Artists and Models – Martin and Lewis were in the process of breaking up at that point, so … Continue reading
Dean Martin: A Haunting Photo
I came across this photo and was just completely struck by it – on every level. Every face, every detail … Mia Farrow, Dean Martin, and Sharon Tate. It’s kinda haunting. I mean, it’s hard to look at anyone else … Continue reading
“Shut Up and Deal!”
Shirley MacLaine, during the seminar she gave at my school, talked a lot about The Apartment, directed by Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Fred MacMurray. — In the final scene, where Miss Kubelik shows up at his apartment, and … Continue reading
Posted in Directors, Movies
Tagged Billy Wilder, Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine
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