“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 & 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?”
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