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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Happy Birthday, E.E. Cummings!
E.E. Cummings was one of the few poets I responded to viscerally when I first had to read his stuff in high school. I didn’t know what it was all about, but I loved his weird syntax, I loved how … Continue reading
“We’re both rotten.” “Only you’re a little more rotten.”
I take some pride in the fact that I have actually been called “a gold-digging ne’er-do-well” by the mother of one of my dumb boyfriends in the past. She was wrong on both counts, but it still pleases my film … Continue reading
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“All Russia is our orchard. The earth is so wide, so beautiful, so full of wonderful places.” – The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
There is a great sense of frivolity to this scene. Life catches up with you and you ridicule yourself. You have to allow yourself to go very high and very low. These are people who take their feelings and elevate … Continue reading
Book Questions
1. Favorite childhood book? I’ll go with Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh. Harriet taught me an important lesson. “Sometimes you have to lie.” I wrote about the book in depth here. 2. What are you reading right now? Child … Continue reading
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Other Men’s Women (1931); Dir. William Wellman
The romantic-triangle set against an environment of machines and technology was territory William Wellman had covered before (in Wings, most notably), and here, in Other Men’s Women, instead of planes, like in Wings, we’ve got trains. Male friendship and work … Continue reading
Trixie’s Note: Yeah. Keep Hopin’ There, Fella
In 1942, with the United States’ entry into WWII, Joan Blondell embarked on an exhausting 6 month USO tour, singing, doing skits, and dancing with as many soldiers as she possibly could. Married to Dick Powell at the time, the … Continue reading
Female (1933); Dir. Michael Curtiz
Alice Drake (Ruth Chatterton) inherited her father’s automobile manufacturing business, a behemoth if you judge from the panorama outside her office window of a factory as far as the eye can see. She is just a “female”, but she has … Continue reading
The Narcissist At Home: Julian In American Gigolo
Who are we when we are alone and we feel totally private? Private moments are difficult to capture on film. You know it when you see it. Perhaps the most classic example is Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle, talking to … Continue reading
The Books: Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats, edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine “These are the pure Magic. These are the clear vision. The rest … Continue reading
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Tagged poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Six Centuries of Great Poetry, William Hazlitt
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