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November. It's a Wrap

30 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

In case you missed anything in November here are some highlights from the 11th month of a year that is just whizzing by, as if time can't wait to bring us a new decade already.

Darren Aronofsky Robert's "Director of the Decade" series took on the man behind all those desperate addicts (to love, fame, drugs)

Oh, Suzanne-ah Meryl, Shirley and Dennis in Postcards From the Edge

Dolph 'the biggest one' Lundgren the kick off to the "birthday suit" series was a fun reminder of Showdown in Little Tokyo ...so bad it's good.

2001 Top Ten the year of Nicole Kidman and Mulholland Dr remembered

"Honey You'll Hurt Yourself" Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

7 Word Reviews brief expressions of disappointment in Oscar fare

Beauty Queen Jose's beautiful ode to Julia as Erin Brockovich as we look back over each year of the Aughts

Landscape No. 2 Slovenia's Oscar entry

Curio Alexandra's »

- NATHANIEL R

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(Musical) Monologue - "Honey you'll hurt yourself"

17 November 2009 4:24 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Jose here with the Monday Monologue.

When thinking of Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the first image that comes to everyone's mind will be that of Marilyn Monroe performing Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.

People who haven't seen the film know it because it's been reenacted by people like Nicole Kidman, Geri Halliwell, Kylie Minogue and was the base of Madonna's entire Material Girl video. And how could they not homage it when the performance's so damn iconic?

Marilyn knew what it meant to be a showstopper, but within the movie we also find a hidden gem of sorts in Jane Russell's performance. She plays sidekick to Monroe and while it's the blond bombshell getting all the attention, Ms. Rusell knew how to leave a mark of her own.

In what appears to be an inconspicuous number halfway throughout the film- after she's been dealing with lack of »

- Jose

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Michael Winner: 'The only purpose of life is to avoid boredom'

16 November 2009 1:37 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The notorious film director on cheating death, the awfulness of restaurants – and how he can't stand boring people

It is with a mixture of fear and exhilaration that I approach Michael Winner's large house – he likes to describe it as a mansion – in London's fashionable Holland Park. God knows how much it's worth – £25m maybe. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin lives next door, in an even bigger house. An attractive, slightly forbidding young woman answers the door – I later discover she is a resting actress called Ruby – and she shows me into Winner's private cinema, filled with memorabilia from half a lifetime of movie-making and an entire lifetime of trouble-making.

There are seats for 30 people, a bar, a director's chair with Winner's name on it, the Winner puppet from Spitting Image, a signed photograph of Marilyn Monroe, pictures of some scantily clad starlets, and hundreds of photographs of stars »

- Stephen Moss

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Marilyn Monroe-style 50s bras making comeback

4 November 2009 6:11 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

And here we were thinking the 80s was the in vogue fashion. Nope, the big news in style circles is the comeback of an unlikely item – the pointy bra. More conical and structured than their current squishier counterparts, these examples of old school underwear were popularised in the 50s by Hollywood sirens such as Marilyn Monroe and her Gentlemen Prefer Blondes co-star, Jane Russell and again were brought into the limelight when Madonna (who has often styled herself after her idol, Monroe) donned Jean-Paul Gaultier designed versions for her Blonde Ambition world tour in 1990. And now, it’s 19 years later and they’re back with a number of UK shops reporting surges in sales of pointy bras. Who’d have thunk it? »

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Progress Report

28 September 2009 7:48 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Mad Men recap is coming, promise. Around 2 Am last night the wi-fi connection dropped and many words (though not as many as in a Thomas Pynchon novel, say) vanished into the white limbo of blank space, or were sucked up an anteater's snout, or something. Point is, I am reconstructing the skeleton and will put the post up around midday. What the episode established is that Duck, my my, he's quite the "goer." If I know how to embed a sound effect, I would imitate Bob Hope's wolfish grawwhhhlllls whenever Hedy Lamarr or Jane Russell hove into view to illustrate my point about Duck, but I don't, such you'll just have to imagine it, assuming you know who Bob Hope is. These days I assume nothing. Check out: Bachelor in Paradise: late Hope, but very underrated as a sociological snapshot of Sixties suburbia (California division), desperate housewives, and »

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James Cameron’s Avatar: Can it really change film?

9 September 2009 6:56 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

3D has had many heydays through out the history of cinema. The early fifties saw Rko running with the new process and Universal taking punts on many films, some successes and some flat out failures. The ship finally sank after it was deemed too expensive to upkeep dual projectors and panned after terrible syncing issues with running two strips of film simultaneously. The delivering technology simply couldn't keep up with the "fad" and it wasn't until 1954 when single strip 3D was perfected. After that, everyone got into it, even Hitchcock, famously releasing Dial M for Murder in the third dimension. Shlock classic The Creature From the Black Lagoon and Howard Hawks' hit The French Line, which managed to fit Jane Russell in all her glory, into 3D saw the format finally with a steady footing. Or so it seemed until once again cinema finances crumbled when wide-screen formatted screens »

- Neil Innes

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Talkin' Westerns with A.C. Lyles

14 May 2009 4:29 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

(A.C. Lyles, below)

by Jon Zelazny

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on February 27, 2009

There’s an A.C. Lyles Building at the Paramount Pictures main lot, but you won’t find A.C. Lyles there; his office is on the fourth floor of the William S. Hart Building.

When I arrived for our interview, Mr. Lyles was chatting with some visitors in his outer office. He bid me into his main office, and asked his assistant Pam to put in a video… a short promo reel that opens with a six minute tribute by then-President Ronald Reagan, who warmly recalls his and Nancy’s many years of friendship with A.C. and his wife Martha, and congratulates A.C. on his fifty years at the studio. The President’s intro is followed by taped congratulations from President Carter, President Ford, and Vice President Bush, then assorted clips celebrating Mr. »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Jane Russell Added To Feinstein's Salute To MGM Stars 3/26

20 March 2009 12:48 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Michael Feinstein's Salute to the Stars of MGM scheduled for Thursday, March 26 adds Jane Russell with Arlene Dahl and host Robert Osborne (Turner Classic Movies) for a joyous tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood musicals and the stars that made them great. Due to scheduling conflicts Vic Damone will not be able to attend this performance. Tickets to the 7:30 show are $50-$80. »

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2009 | 2003 | 2001

8 articles from 2009

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