“A movie imprisons your eyes. It acts on you , and you on it. Hence, you don’t ‘see’ or ‘look at’ a movie. You watch it the way a cat watches a bird until the cat strikes, kills, eats.” Leonard Michaelsquoted in Lifelines: A Commonplace Book by Charles Cherry**THE MINIDRESS SHOWN IN FORBIDDEN PLANETThe minidressContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30”
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BITS AND PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #31
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”
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”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #29
A STUNTMAN DESCRIBES SADDLE FALLS IN THE MOIVIE THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE “In the final dramatic sequence, where the Lancers charge the cannons of the Russian army, I took numerous ‘saddle falls’ rigged by ‘the running W.’ A cable was strung from an old car axle, driven in the ground, and then tiedContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #29”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #28
THE QUEEN OF POVERTY ROW According to Richard Lamparski, in his seventh Whatever Became of Series…, “Poverty Row was a group of studios on and around Gower Street in Hollywood that produced low budget movies . Columbia Pictures, where Ms. (DOROTHY) Revier was under contract,was considered a ‘poverty Row’ studio until the mid-thirties. ” DorothyContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #28”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:HORROR & SCAREY THINGS?
AFTER SEEING THE MOVIE FRANKENSTEIN”After seeing Frankenstein, I was convinced that the monsterwould climb the fire escape outside of my tenement window toget me. Why he should want to get me, of all people, amid themillions who lived in New York, or why he would even be in’New York in the first place, didn’t enterContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:HORROR & SCAREY THINGS?”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #27
IT’S DIFFICULT FOR FILM STARS TO PROTECT THEIR PRIVACY ROBERT REDFORD “had become secretive. Not only did I know him, our wives knew each other, so did our kids. And he had asked me to come to Utah for the month to work with him — —–And he wouldn’t give me his phone number. Continue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #27”
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