1. The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) Lloyd Bacon’s slight but amiable comedy is most notable for the opportunity to see the great Lucille Ball in one of her last film roles before she commenced…
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Eating With the Stars: Ida Lupino’s Plum Cake
“My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England – I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I…
Movie Quote of the Day: John Huston’s Beat The Devil (1953)
“The only thing standing between you and a watery grave is your wits, and that’s not my idea of adequate protection.” – Humphrey Bogart in Beat the Devil I feel so grateful that…
Movie Quote of the Day: In a Lonely Place (1950)
“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” In A Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray’s gripping drama, is one of my…
10 Forgotten Stars of The Hollywood Walk of Fame
Who are the forgotten stars of the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Though fame is evanescent for most who are unfortunate enough to experience it, a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame is, ostensibly, forever.…
What Not To Wear When Going To Prison: or, How One Bad Decision and 3 Loose Pills Sent Me To The Slammer For Three Days with Eyeliner and Crimped Hair, Part One
The residual trauma of my incarceration and its subsequent shame-based cover-up has, I believe, equipped me uniquely to advise my gay brothers on how to prepare for a visit to prison with a particular emphasis on what not to wear when one is, as the Mob Wives say, “going away.”
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