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Book Review: VITAGRAPH: AMERICA’S FIRST GREAT MOTION PICTURE STUDIO (Andrew A. Erish)
VITAL VITAGRAPH This is the story of two motion picture pioneers, but their names are not Griffith, Chaplin, or any of the usual suspects found in the history books. J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith were prime movers in the film world of their time, but are forgotten today, mainly because others who came…
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Book Review: PATRICIA NEAL: AN UNQUIET LIFE (Stephen Miller Shearer; updated)
NEAL IN GRATITUDE As biographies of Hollywood’s Golden Age continue to roll off the assembly line, their subjects seem to fall into two categories: victims and survivors. Of the two we like the victims best – eternally beautiful, forever young, a twentieth century communion of saints presided over by the trinity of Judy Garland, Marilyn…
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Book: A WONDERFUL GUY: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE GREAT MEN OF MUSICAL THEATER (Edited by Eddie Shapiro)
A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater, Eddie Shapiro’s follow up to his wildly popular Nothing Like a Dame, will be released on Thursday, April 1, 2021 and is published by Oxford Press. A Wonderful Guy will be available in hardcover and digital formats with pre-orders now being accepted on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In A Wonderful…
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Book Review: MEAN. . . MOODY. . . MAGNIFICENT! JANE RUSSELL AND THE MARKETING OF A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND (Christina Rice)
HARDLY AN AVERAGE JANE The Hollywood Golden Age biography market is glutted with studies of Crawford, Davis, Dietrich, Hepburn, Hepburn, Monroe, Taylor and their peers. Is there anything left to say about these fabled creatures? The answer in most cases is a resounding “No!” Consequently, many writers are now exploring less well-trodden paths, and it’s…
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Book Review: JAYNE MANSFIELD: THE GIRL COULDN’T HELP IT (Eve Golden)
A BUST OF PERSONALITY “Ladies and Gentlemen, here they are, Jayne Mansfield.” Talk-show host Jack Paar allegedly paid his writer Dick Cavett $5,000 for that line and it pretty much says it all. He was of course referring to Ms. Mansfield’s celebrated twin assets, but as Eve Golden reveals in this ferociously readable biography, there…
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Book Review: A CHRONOLOGY OF FILM: A CULTURAL TIMELINE AFROM THE MAGIC LANTERN TO NETFLIX (Ian Haydn Smith)
THE HISTORY OF CINEMA IS A HISTORY OF US In A Chronology of Film, Ian Haydn Smith takes on the history of Cinema (and incidentally the history of the world) from the late nineteenth century to the present. As befits the recounting of a primarily visual medium, the book is a visual treat with a…
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Theater: ANOTHER DAY’S BEGUN – EXLORING THORNTON WILDER’S “OUR TOWN” (Pasadena Playhouse)
A celebration of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play and Howard Sherman’s new book On March 11, 2021 at 6:30pm PT, Pasadena Playhouse presents the live streaming of Another Day’s Begun: Exploring Our Town on PlayhouseLive. Available on demand beginning March 12, this special event celebrates Our Town, the quintessential American play, with performances from previous cast members…
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Book Review: EUBIE BLAKE — RAGS, RHYTHM AND RACE (Richard Carlin & Ken Bloom)
RACE TO THE TOP James Hubert Blake was born in the nineteenth century and lived into his late nineties (He falsely claimed to have reached 100, but that’s show biz.) The eleventh child of parents born in slavery, he lived through two world wars, the depression, the civil rights movement and received the Medal of…
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Book Review: HE BROUGHT HER HEART BACK IN A BOX AND OTHER PLAYS (Adrienne Kennedy)
NEW VOLUME OF KENNEDY PLAYS ARRIVES TODAY He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays by Adrienne Kennedy is now available. The titular play, which received its world premiere at Theatre for a New Audience in New York in the winter of 2018, is joined in this volume by Etta and Ella on…
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