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Tag Archives: Howard Hughes
Recommended: Biographies
For starters: My recommended Fiction books My recommended Non-Fiction books BIOGRAPHIES: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph Ellis I’ve written a lot about Joseph Ellis’ work here. While I love David McCullough’s work so much, Ellis is … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Books, Directors, Founding Fathers, James Joyce, Theatre, writers
Tagged A. Scott Berg, Abigail Adams, Alexander Hamilton, American Sphinx, Benjamin Franklin, Biography, Bruce Springsteen, Charles Lindbergh, Charlotte Bronte, David McCullough, Dean Martin, Edie Sedgwick, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ellen Terry, Elvis Presley, Emily Bronte, George Washington, Henry Irving, His Excellency, Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes, James Dean, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Adams, John Wayne, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Ellis, Marlon Brando, Mitford sisters, Montgomery Clift, Nick Tosches, Nureyev, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Bosworth, Patricia Highsmith, Richard Ellmann, Ron Chernow, Sam Cooke, Simon Callow, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Jefferson, Truman Capote, W.B. Yeats, Zelda Fitzgerald
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Year in Review: Running my mouth in 2018
Thanks, everyone, who hangs out here, who likes what I do, whether you’re an Elvis fan, a Supernatural fan, a general cinephile, a book-lover, or just someone who’s been checking in periodically for almost 16 years – WHAT? – I … Continue reading
Posted in James Joyce, Movies, Television
Tagged Anne V. Coates, Burt Reynolds, documentary, Doris Day, Dorothy Malone, Elvis Presley, England, Finnegans Wake, Frank Sinatra, Gena Rowlands, Germany, Gold Diggers of 1933, Grace Kelly, Hal Ashby, Howard Hughes, Ian McEwan, James Cagney, Joan Didion, Joaquin Phoenix, Julie Christie, Lynne Ramsay, Mexico, Minnie and Moskowitz, Natalie Portman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Play It As It Lays, Robert Altman, Russia, Sanaa Lathan, South Korea, Supernatural, Warren Beatty, women directors, Woody Allen, year in writing
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Howard Hughes & Hollywood: Karina Longworth’s book
I reviewed Karina Longworth’s wonderful new book Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood for the Los Angeles Times. It’ll be in the Sunday edition print version too but here it is online.
Bookshelf Tour #7
Moving on to biographies. Please ignore my wretched ceiling. I had nothing to do with it. I also lost the top shelf of my bookshelves when I moved here in February. Still room for a row of books though. I … Continue reading
The Books: The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town, edited by Lillian Ross; ‘Angel’, by James Thurber
Next up on the essays shelf: The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town (Modern Library Paperbacks) is a collection of “The Talk of the Town” pieces in The New Yorker, grouped by decade, which is a … Continue reading
In the Land Before CGI
Greg has a not-to-be-missed post, with relevant clips, about Howard Hughes’ Hell’s Angels with some of the most incredible action sequences in film – even more incredible when you realize how much of it was actually happening. The first clip … Continue reading
“That we have made a hero of Howard Hughes tells us something interesting about ourselves.” – Joan Didion
Why I love Joan Didion For paragraphs like this, from her essay on Howard Hughes, written in 1967: By July of 1967 Howard Hughes is the largest single landholder in Clark County, Nevada. “Howard likes Las Vegas,” an acquaintance of … Continue reading
Howard Hughes’ OCD
An amazing thing has been happening in my old post about the OCD of Howard Hughes. It has become a gathering place, for people to share. I have made sure to leave it open, because people seem to need to … Continue reading
Snapshots
— The Hudson is now pretty much encased in ice. It’s gorgeous in a fierce glittering kind of way. I stood out there this morning, freezing-cold, watching the mini icebergs float by. Then this morning, I checked in on CW’s … Continue reading
Cary Grant on Howard Hughes
Cary Grant met Howard Hughes in 1932. Grant said about Hughes: Howard was the most restful man I’ve ever been with. Sometimes we’d sit for two hours and never say a word. He owned only two suits. He never owned … Continue reading