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For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love

Posted on March 8, 2025 by sheila

I post edited versions of this every year. I add names. I take names off if I feel like it. I enjoy compiling it. It’s not just about enjoyment. As women’s rights are up for grabs more than ever, like … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Art/Photography, Directors, Personal, writers | Tagged A.S. Byatt, Abigail Adams, Agnes Varda, Aline MacMahon, Amy Heckerling, Ann Savage, Anna Karina, Anne Frank, Anne V. Coates, Annie Proulx, art, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Austria, Barbara Bel Geddes, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Bibi Andersson, Brazil, Britney Spears, Busby Berkeley, Camille Paglia, Canada, Carole Lombard, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Rampling, China, Croatia, Diane Keaton, Dolly Parton, Drew Barrymore, Dubravka Ugrešić, Edie Sedgwick, Ellen von Unwerth, England, Etta James, Eve Babitz, France, Frances Farmer, Gena Rowlands, George Eliot, Georgia, Germany, Gloria Grahame, Golshifteh Farahani, Greta Garbo, Greta Gerwig, Harriet Andersson, Hediyeh Tehrani, Hong Kong, Ida Lupino, Ingrid Thulin, Iran, Ireland, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Japan, Jean Arthur, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Clayburgh, Joan Crawford, Joan Didion, Joanna Hogg, Josephine Decker, Judy Garland, Julie Christie, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kay Francis, Keri Hulme, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Dern, Laurette Taylor, Leila Hatami, Lily Tomlin, Liv Ullmann, Louise Glück, Madeleine L'Engle, Madeline Kahn, Maggie Cheung, Maggie Smith, Marianne Moore, Marilyn Monroe, Martha Graham, Mary Oliver, Maud Gonne, Mélanie Laurent, Mia Hansen-Løve, Nancy Savoca, Natalie Portman, Nina Hoss, Nina Simone, Olivia Laing, Olympia Dukakis, Patricia Highsmith, Pauline Kael, photography, Poland, Rebecca West, Romania, Rosalind Russell, Russia, Sandrine Bonnaire, Shabnam Toloui, Shirley Jackson, Sophia Takal, South Korea, Spain, Supernatural, Sweden, Tana French, Taraneh Alidoosti, The Netherlands, Tiffany Haddish, Tina Turner, Tuesday Weld, Wanda Jackson, women directors | 106 Comments

My second move in a year

Posted on September 10, 2021 by sheila

Library getting packed up again. I’m too old for this shit. So this bookcase is half-packed and what is there is random, but it makes a pretty funny collage. — Dad’s book on Anglo-Irish literature (dedicated to Mum) — my … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Movies, Personal | Tagged Annie Proulx, Bringing Up Baby, Elvis Presley, family, Federalist Papers, Liz Phair, Marcel Proust, Pauline Kael, Shakespeare | 2 Comments

2019 Books Read

Posted on December 31, 2019 by sheila

It’s been such a busy year for me as a writer. The busiest. I’ve had to “make time” for reading stuff that has nothing to do with anything writing-wise. I need to read for pleasure. Many of the books I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, James Joyce | Tagged A.S. Byatt, After Henry, books about Hollywood, books read, Bruce Springsteen, children's books, Crime and Punishment, Dorothy Parker, Dubliners, Elementals, Elvis Presley, essays, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fiction, Frank O'Hara, Franny and Zooey, friends, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gerard Manley Hopkins, H.L. Mencken, Hunter S. Thompson, Iran, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jack London, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, John Huston, John Sturges, Joshua Ferris, Little Black Book of Stories, Memoirs, Nine Stories, nonfiction, Patricia Bosworth, Pauline Kael, poetry, Robert Kaplan, Russia, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Sylvia Plath, Tana French, Ted Hughes, Terrence Malick, The Matisse Stories, The White Album, Then We Came To The End, true crime, Vladimir Nabokov, war | 10 Comments

Stuff I’ve Been Reading

Posted on June 9, 2019 by sheila

— “The Secret Oral History of Bennington: The 1980s’ Most Decadent College” is so freakin’ lit. I don’t even know what else to say. — Nick Pinkteron and C. Spencer Yeh have a lengthy conversation about the Marvel movies. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged Dorothy Parker, Hannah Arendt, Janet Malcolm, Pauline Kael, Rebecca West, stuff I've been reading | Leave a comment

2018 Books Read

Posted on December 31, 2018 by sheila

2018 Books Read 1. Tamburlaine, Part 1, by Christopher Marlowe I finished 2017 with Paradise Lost, in the mood to continue with rigorous challenging poetry. I decided to read the complete plays of Christopher Marlowe (re-read in most cases). The … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, James Joyce | Tagged Animal Farm, Annie Proulx, books read, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Marlowe, Clifford Odets, Edgar Allan Poe, England, Evelyn Waugh, fiction, Finnegans Wake, friends, George Orwell, H.L. Mencken, Hunter S. Thompson, Ian McEwan, Ireland, Italy, Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, nonfiction, Olivia Laing, Pauline Kael, poetry, Poland, politics, Robert Kaplan, Romania, Ron Chernow, Russia, Ryszard Kapuściński, Sergei Kirov, Stalin, The Soccer War, Tom Wolfe, true crime, Truman Capote, Victor Serge, Waiting for Lefty | 7 Comments

2016 Books Read

Posted on December 30, 2016 by sheila

I’ve enjoyed myself this year with reading. I have finally bounced back from 2009 and 2010, when I was so out of my mind that I could barely read anymore. (Larry McMurtry describes a similar thing happening to him post-heart … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged Baz Luhrmann, books read, Camille Paglia, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, David Thomson, East of Eden, Elia Kazan, Elvis Presley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Horton Foote, James Agee, James Salter, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Steinbeck, Katherine Dunn, Mark Danielewski, Nick Tosches, Pauline Kael, Robert Kaplan, Shane Leslie, Stephen King, Tana French, Tennessee Williams, The Great Gatsby, William Faulkner | 19 Comments

Quotes on acting 11: Pauline Kael on Marlon Brando

Posted on June 6, 2010 by sheila

“We all know that movie actors often merge with their roles in a way that stage actors don’t, quite, but Brando did it even on the stage. I was in New York when he played his famous small role in … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors | Tagged Marlon Brando, Pauline Kael | Leave a comment

Diner (1982): “We All Know Most Marriages Depend on a Firm Grasp of Football Trivia.”

Posted on October 28, 2008 by sheila

“Do you ever get the feeling that there’s something going on that we don’t know about? ” “Boog, the bet was ‘touch your pecker’ not ‘pecker in popcorn’.” “What is she … twelve?” “She’ll be twelve.” “That’s what you get … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Barry Levinson, Diner, Pauline Kael | 22 Comments

The Books: “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best” (Nancy Nelson)

Posted on August 27, 2008 by sheila

Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best, by Nancy Nelson I can imagine that this is pretty much a book only for hardcore fans. It’s almost … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Books | Tagged Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant, entertainment biography, Howard Hawks, Katharine Hepburn, Pauline Kael | 13 Comments

New York movies

Posted on April 8, 2008 by sheila

… a wonderful retrospective…. which demonstrates why David Edelstein is one of my favorite critics writing today (I put him on my list here). For me, it’s never just about agreeing with a critic’s opinion – it’s about how the … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Gene Hackman, Pauline Kael | 3 Comments

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For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love

My second move in a year

2019 Books Read

Stuff I’ve Been Reading

2018 Books Read

2016 Books Read

Quotes on acting 11: Pauline Kael on Marlon Brando

Diner (1982): “We All Know Most Marriages Depend on a Firm Grasp of Football Trivia.”

The Books: “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best” (Nancy Nelson)

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