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An Extended Apprenticeship

This essay first appeared in The Lady With the Torch: Columbia Pictures 1929 – 1959, published alongside the Locarno Film Festival retrospective programmed by Ehsan Khoshbakht in 2024. It is reprinted online here for the first time.

Steve...

18 days ago
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Marilyn at 100

Marilyn Monroe, 1947; photo by Earl Theisen

Exactly one hundred years ago today, on June 1, 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in Los Angeles. There was a time twenty years ago, back when I started this blog, when I would have shrugged a...

a month ago
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In Memoriam: Rex Reed

Rex Reed in dazzling youth, captured by paparazzo Ron Galella like the celebrity he was.

I know exactly what many people thought of the late Rex Reed. Short-tempered, careless with facts, close-minded at times. Took unseemly delight in ins...

2 months ago
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Respect for Hedy Lamarr

The films, the patent, the stuff that ought to stop

There was I, looking for classic-film stills, as one does on a Sunday night, or any other night, and the one above brought me up short. It isn’t exactly obscure, but I didn’t recall seein...

2 months ago
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The Film Noir Fate of Kouri Richins

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity

At 3:21 a.m. on March 4, 2022, a 911 call was made from a house in a well-to-do suburb outside of Park City, Utah. The caller was Kouri Richins, and her emergency was her husband Eric...

3 months ago
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