Categories
Archives
-
-
-
Recent Posts
- “The only cause I espouse is man’s right to find his own centre, stand firm, speak out, then be kind.” — Michael Davitt, “Dissenter”
- “I do love Alice in Wonderland though. That’s something I think I could do very well.” — Edie Sedgwick
- Review: The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
- “I don’t like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn’t have. I don’t represent anything.” — Liz Phair
- “I don’t really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life – to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.” — William Holden
- “Some syllables are swords.” — Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan
- “To me, music is no joke and it’s not for sale.” — Ian MacKaye
- “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.” — Charlie Chaplin
- 92nd Street Y: April 29th, Liberties panel
- April 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 7
Recent Comments
- Mona Sørum on “That cat was royalty, man.” — Mick Jagger on Eddie Cochran
- mutecypher on “I don’t like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn’t have. I don’t represent anything.” — Liz Phair
- sheila on “I don’t like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn’t have. I don’t represent anything.” — Liz Phair
- sheila on “Ballet taught me to stay close to style and tone. Literature taught me to be concerned about the moral life.” — Joan Acocella
- mutecypher on “I don’t like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn’t have. I don’t represent anything.” — Liz Phair
- Gina in alabama on “Ballet taught me to stay close to style and tone. Literature taught me to be concerned about the moral life.” — Joan Acocella
- sheila on March 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 8
- sheila on 92nd Street Y: April 29th, Liberties panel
- mutecypher on 92nd Street Y: April 29th, Liberties panel
- Pat on March 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 8
- sheila on March 2025 Supernatural Viewing Diary Season 10, working backwards
- sheila on March 2025 Supernatural Viewing Diary Season 10, working backwards
- Adèle on March 2025 Supernatural Viewing Diary Season 10, working backwards
- sheila on March 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 8
- sheila on March 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 8
- sheila on March 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 8
- Katie on Close-up: Bud White in “LA Confidential”
- LYRIEISYELLING on February 2025 Viewing Diary
- Lyrie on March 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 8
- Lyrie on March 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 8
-
Tag Archives: Gary Cooper
Some Island snapshots
— “I cannot imagine how a casual reference to Suetonius and Petronius Arbiter can be construed into evidence of a desire to impress by an assumption of superior knowledge. I should fancy that the most ordinary of scholars is perfectly … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Block Island, Christopher Walken, Deborah Kerr, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Evelyn Waugh, Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hope, In a Lonely Place, Keri Hulme, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Neal, snapshots, T.S. Eliot, The Bone People
10 Comments
20 Favorite Actors
Joining the fun that’s been going on, and to quote Nathaniel who started this whole thing: “In no particular order and extremely subject to change.” For example: where the hell is Robert Mitchum? And William H. Macy? And Sean Penn … Continue reading
Posted in Actors
Tagged Cary Grant, Dean Stockwell, Ewan McGregor, Gary Cooper, Gene Hackman, George Sanders, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Nicholson, James Cagney, Jeff Bridges, John Wayne, Johnny Depp, Kurt Russell, Marlon Brando, Mickey Rourke, Paul Newman, Richard Widmark, Robert Duvall, Russell Crowe, Thomas Mitchell
32 Comments
The Books: “As I Am: An Autobiography” (Patricia Neal)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: As I Am: An Autobiography, by Patricia Neal This is one of those rare books where my response to it was, “Dear God, it’s me, Sheila. Could you please give Patricia Neal a break? Hasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Books
Tagged entertainment biography, Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Paul Newman, Roald Dahl
9 Comments
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
Posted in Actors, Books
Tagged Clara Bow, entertainment biography, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, William Wellman
9 Comments
Culture Snapshots
— I’m reading A Widow for One Year by John Irving and also The Fortune of War by Patrick O’Brian. Awesome counterpoint. Both superb writers in their own way. — Thank you, dear Siobhan, for introducing me to the amazing … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged family, Gary Cooper, John Irving, Master & Commander, Patricia Neal, Patrick O'Brian, snapshots
16 Comments
3 Similar Actor Stories
Three different actors, three different acting styles and “methods” – but it’s basically the same story. 1. Clark Gable Arthur Miller had written the part of the aging cowboy who falls in love with the girl in The Misfits for … Continue reading
Who Is The Dullest Man?
Ava Gardner was asked, “So – who is the dullest man in Hollywood? Clark Gable or Gary Cooper?” Ava thought a bit and then said, “Well, if you ask Clark ‘How are you doing?’ he’s stuck for an answer.”