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Tag Archives: Dean Martin
iPod shuffle as I cleaned my apartment.
“Everybody Loves Me, Baby” – Don McLean. My whole childhood is in this song. I remember being disturbed, as a kid, by the blatant egotism of the song, it scared me. I was probably 5 years old. (It is important … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Winehouse, Bleu, Britney Spears, Dean Martin, ELO, Foo Fighters, friends, Green Day, Joan Jett, Liz Phair, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Mike Viola, Pat McCurdy, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, shuffle, Sinéad O'Connor, The Beatles, Tori Amos, Wynona Carr
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The Books: “Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams” (Nick Tosches)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, by Nick Tosches David Thomson, in his The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition writes of Tosches’ book: Nick Tosches’ Dino: Living High in the … Continue reading
The Books: “My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir” (Shirley MacLaine)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir, by Shirley MacLaine Wonderful book! It might be my favorite of Shirley MacLaine’s (although granted I have not read her latest). It’s a book of anecdotes and character studies … Continue reading
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Tagged Dean Martin, entertainment biography, Shirley MacLaine
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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
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Tagged Andrei Rublev, Dean Martin, Hope, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shirley MacLaine, snapshots, The Seagull, Vincente Minnelli, War and Peace
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A break in the Stockwell obsession
(which shows no signs of abating for the time being) … just to say: Sigh. Another Dean, another dollar.
Tosches
Check out Nick Tosches. You know, I tore my way through Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams – and didn’t write that much about it here – even though it was just a GREAT reading experience. Must … Continue reading
Dino: “a likable coward”
From Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, by Nick Tosches – more from Howard Hawks on Rio Bravo: Dean himself described Rio Bravo for a reporter that June: “I play a sodden, drunken bum. My hands shake … Continue reading
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Tagged Dean Martin, Howard Hawks, Marlon Brando, Nick Tosches, Rio Bravo
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