Categories
Archives
-
Recent Posts
- 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
- “As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.” — Reed Morano
- March 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 8
Recent Comments
- 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
- sheila on March 2025 Viewing Diary, Supernatural Season 8
-
Tag Archives: Tuesday Weld
A QA with Jeremy Richey about Elvis Presley As An Actor
Jeremy Richey’s site Moon in the Gutter has been an almost-daily pitstop for me ever since I discovered it years ago. He approaches his topics with passion and enthusiasm, and reminds me of one of those buttons on Facebook that … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Movies
Tagged Elvis Presley, interviews, King Creole, Live a Little Love a Little, Michael Curtiz, Tuesday Weld, Wild in the Country
78 Comments
Elvis Dispatch #2: Wild In the Country (1961)
A sometimes-overheated melodrama, drenched in Freudian analysis, so in vogue at the time, Wild in the Country actually gives Elvis Presley a chance to do some real acting. It has some Tennessee Williams elements, some Rebel Without a Cause elements, … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Clifford Odets, Elvis Presley, Tuesday Weld, Wild in the Country
10 Comments