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Category Archives: Actors
Coming on Nov. 23 in the UK: The Quiet Man released on Blu-Ray (for the first time)
John Ford’s The Quiet Man (1952), starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara (with Ford regulars Victor McLaglen and Ward Bond in supporting roles), is being released on Blu-Ray in the UK for the very first time. Released by Masters of … Continue reading
Mia Farrow on Gena Rowlands
Mia Farrow on Gena Rowlands in Lonely are the Brave in 1962: “I had seen her when I was a teenager in Lonely Are the Brave with Kirk Douglas. I’d never seen anyone that beautiful with a certain gravitas. It … Continue reading
Associated Press: “What is the movie experience you’d most like to forget or do differently?” Gena Rowlands: “If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.”
Gena Rowlands celebrates 6 decades in film with honorary Oscar: The Associated Press interview with Gena Rowlands. That exchange in the title is my favorite bit, but there is tons more great stuff there, involving a funny anecdote about Bette … Continue reading
Gena Rowlands: “What Movies Mean to Me”
The Lifetime Achievement Oscar ceremony is happening this Saturday, November 14th. The honorees for Honorary Awards are Spike Lee, Debbie Reynolds, and Gena Rowlands. If you’ve been following along, then you know my involvement in this whole thing, an experience … Continue reading
R.I.P. Gunnar Hansen, aka “Leatherface”
Gannar Hansen, the original villain in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has died at the age of 68. In his 2013 book Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie, Hansen wrote: The reason I want … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh in “The Mask of Virtue,” the West End production that made her a sensation in 1935 Review of “The Mask of Virtue,” calling out Leigh’s performance Vivien Leigh, again, in “The Mask of Virtue” 4 years before Gone … Continue reading
Katie’s Corner: Katharine Hepburn Teaches Us How to Make Pumpkin Pancakes
If you are not familiar with the phenomenon of “Katie’s Corner,” then get you to Youtube instantly. My great friend Alexandra Billings has always done a killer Katharine Hepburn imitation, and in “Katie’s Corner”, she plays a completely loopy Hepburn … Continue reading
John and Gena (and Dog) by Sam Shaw
The awesome photographer Sam Shaw was very close to John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, both personally and professionally. He produced Husbands, Woman Under the Influence, Opening Night, Gloria. He was production designer on Killing of a Chinese Bookie. He designed … Continue reading
Quotes By/About Gena Rowlands
These quotes focus on the Cassavetes years. Rowlands has had a vast career outside of that, only it’s just not as well documented. “I spotted this doll one day and pretended that I wanted to talk to her about a … Continue reading
R.I.P. Maureen O’Hara
I was barely home this weekend, so I did not have a chance to commemorate the passing of the extraordinarily beautiful, talented, and sexy-feisty Maureen O’Hara. Coincidentally, I was hired a couple of weeks ago to write an essay about … Continue reading