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Category Archives: Actors
The Books: “Are You Anybody?: An Actor’s Life” (Bradford Dillman)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Are You Anybody?: An Actor’s Life, by Bradford Dillman One of the side effects of being obsessed with Dean Stockwell is that you suddenly find yourself needing (yes, needing) to buy the autobiography of Bradford … Continue reading
In Praise of Len Cariou
One of the reasons I love bloggers who write mainly about film is that (unlike in the print-world, you don’t have a word count, and you don’t have to focus on only the “new” or the “fresh”) we can pretty … Continue reading
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The Books: “James Dean: The Mutant King” (David Dalton)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: James Dean: The Mutant King: A Biography, by David Dalton I described my obsessive-compulsive response to seeing East of Eden here in this post about Carroll Baker. James Dean was the first. He was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Elia Kazan, entertainment biography, James Dean, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause
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The Delectable Jean Arthur
A montage. I’ll always love Jean Arthur for Talk of the Town and Only Angels Have Wings – and I love her even more knowing that she had terrible stage fright and a lot of insecurities. Wonderful comedienne, I think. … Continue reading
The Books: “Cooper’s Women” (Jane Ellen Wayne)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Cooper’s Women, by Jane Ellen Wayne This is not an “important” biography. It’s not a biography at all, really. It is a list of Gary Cooper’s many conquests, written in a chatty movie-magazine style, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Clara Bow, entertainment biography, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, William Wellman
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Some thanks:
… to James Wolcott, for linking to my 2 Brando pieces on Friday – he’s brought some great new people to my site, who have really added to the conversation here. Also, I have to laugh: Wolcott called me a … Continue reading
True Porn Clerk Stories
All I can say to this is: Amen. I have linked to that archive before – and it’s also in my blog roll, so that I can always dip into it if I need a good laugh. I saw her … Continue reading
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The Books: “Montgomery Clift: A Biography” (Patricia Bosworth)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Montgomery Clift: A biography, by Patricia Bosworth I consider this book to be a high watermark in entertainment biography. I find myself comparing all other biographies to this one. In a similar way that Ron … Continue reading
The Books: “Lessons In Becoming Myself” (Ellen Burstyn)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Lessons in Becoming Myself, by Ellen Burstyn In less than a decade, Ellen Burstyn was nominated 5 times for an Oscar (for The Last Picture Show, The Exorcist (speaking of The Exorcist …), Alice Doesn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors Studio, Ellen Burstyn, entertainment biography, Lee Strasberg
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Actors In Any Language
Seeing sites like this linking to me makes me more happy than I can even express. Thanks! Hope you all like the book excerpts! Makes the world seem like a smaller place, and I love that.
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