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Tag Archives: Some Like It Hot
“I’m not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.” – Marilyn Monroe
It’s her birthday. Marilyn Monroe: People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan, John Strasberg, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Peter Bogdanovich, Some Like It Hot
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Sidney Lumet: On Dialogue
Excerpt from Making Movies: Lumet’s movies always have a lot of talking in them. One of the greatest examples is “Network”. Sidney Lumet, unlike many other directors, does not shy away from a lot of dialogue. Here he explains why: … Continue reading
“Nobody’s Perfect.”
Excerpt from Conversations with Wilder: The final scene of Some Like it Hot, we wrote on a weekend in the studio. We just did not have it. We had the guys escaping, jumping into the motorboat of Mr. Joe E. … Continue reading