OPENING REMARKS TO THE YALE LAW SCHOOL FILM SOCIETY”I have been asked what it is like to be a personage of the cinema. [long pause] It’s like being trampled to death by geese.”Robert Mitchum. Reported by Brad Darrach in Penthouse, 1972**WHEN BRADFORD CRAWFORD DRANK FRANK SINATRA’S WIG”He drank Sinatra’s piece. We were trying to pullContinue reading “BITS AND PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #31”
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BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30
THE ACADEMY AWARDS BIG FIVEIn the history of the Oscars, only three films have swept the so-called “Big Five” categories, which include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. The first was 1934’s “It Happened One Night,” earning Frank Capra, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, and Robert Riskin individual awards in theContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30”
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