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Tag Archives: Elvis Presley
R.I.P. Stella Stevens
My pal John Beifuss writes for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and his tribute to Stella Stevens – a Memphis native (although not born there) – is the one to read. There are so many good anecdotes, all culled from the … Continue reading
January 2023 Viewing Diary
Friday Night Lights No time like the present. I binged this entire series in a couple weeks. This took commitment, and a couple days of sick leave, while trapped in my hotel room in Memphis, too sick to move. I … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Aubrey Plaza, Baz Luhrmann, Bette Davis, biopic, Cary Grant, comedy, documentary, Dorothy Parker, drama, Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley, Hedy Lamarr, Hungary, Italy, Jean Renoir, Little Richard, noir, Poland, Pre-Code, Ralph Bellamy, Raoul Walsh, reviews, Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, true crime, William Wyler, women directors
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“Acting is like letting your pants down; you’re exposed.” — Paul Newman
It’s his birthday today. I am so glad I grew up in a time when Paul Newman was still a leading man (and he was a leading man up until the end). So I got to experience the pleasure of … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Movies, On This Day
Tagged Elvis Presley, James Dean, Joanne Woodward, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Sidney Lumet
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“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me–yet I sometimes long for it.” — Lord Byron
— And who is the best poet, Heron? asked Boland. — Lord Tennyson, of course, answered Heron. — O, yes, Lord Tennyson, said Nash. We have all his poetry at home in a book. At this Stephen forgot the silent … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce, On This Day, writers
Tagged Camille Paglia, Christopher Hitchens, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Elvis Presley, England, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Harold Bloom, Jane Austen, Jeanette Winterson, L.M. Montgomery, Lord Byron, Lord Tennyson, Mary Shelley, Matthew Arnold, Michael Schmidt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poetry, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Robert Graves, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Six Centuries of Great Poetry, Tennessee Williams, W.H. Auden, Walter Savage Landor, war, William Hazlitt
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Memphis in mourning
Riley Keough posted this picture on Instagram. It’s just heartbreaking. Timothy Bella wrote an article for The Washington Post about Elvis’ funeral and people’s memories of it, and of that day, and why the news of Lisa Marie’s death resonates, … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Muhammad Ali
“I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and thrown thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make … Continue reading
Substack launch: On Lisa Marie Presley
I created a Substack months ago, since I was dissatisfied with my Tinyletter newsletter – its format, and also what I was doing with it. I needed a fresh start. I imported all the newsletter subscribers (thank you all!), and … Continue reading
“In France, I’m an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain; a genre film director; and, in the USA, a bum.” — John Carpenter
Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley, 1979 “An Elvis movie is always worth watching because of Elvis.” – Kurt Russell John Carpenter, director: In dealing with Elvis, I’m bringing a lot of my own feelings to it and how I feel … Continue reading
Lisa Marie
I was literally just there. I don’t know why, because I should have anticipated it, but I was somehow not prepared to see Benjamin’s big stone grave, added to the meditation garden, directly across the little pool from his grandfather’s … Continue reading
