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Elizabeth Taylor at 17: A Vintage Portrait
Elizabeth Taylor: Star Rising TIME, Monday, Aug. 22, 1949 Hollywood, which has a special logic of its own, has a ready answer for one kind of criticism: If entertaining the public and breaking box-office records isn’t art, what is? Beset … Continue reading
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The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Wild things: 16 films featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls by Donna Bowman, Amelie Gillette, Steven Hyden, Noel Murray, Leonard Pierce and Nathan Rabin The Onion A.V. Club, August 4, 2008 1. Elizabethtown (Kirsten Dunst) Ah, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, … Continue reading
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Orphan Stories
Why We Love Movies About Orphans We root for Harry Potter for the same reasons we root for Oliver Twist and Shirley Temple: because they’ve lost their parents. by Steve Daly, Newsweek, November 18, 2010 In the avalanche of moody, … Continue reading
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The Golden Age of Children’s Records
Kiddie Records Weekly: Classics From the Golden Age Kiddie Records Weekly began in 2005 as a one year project devoted to the golden age of children’s records. This period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties and produced … Continue reading
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Voices from Old Hollywood
CBC Radio Rewind – “Leading Ladies #1″ The first of two programs about some of the leading ladies of Hollywood who took time, during the peak of their careers or in their twilight years, to talk with CBC Radio. Think … Continue reading
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Not too seductive, not too virginal… the messy tale of Holly Go-not-so-lightly
Tantrums at Tiffany’s: How a viper’s nest of clashing egos nearly killed off one of the best-loved films ever made by Corinna Honan, The Daily Mail, November 5, 2010 When it came to casting the star of Breakfast At Tiffany’s, the … Continue reading
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Blossom of snow, may you bloom and grow
Why The Sound of Music Reunion is So Exciting By Sadie Stein, jezebel.com, Septemer 29, 2010 We got some big news this week, and it was that the entire Sound of Music cast is reuniting, for the first time since … Continue reading
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Oh that “kooky” Holly Golightly/Carrie Bradshaw
Is Audrey Hepburn To Blame For Carrie Bradshaw? by Sadie Stein, jezebel.com, June 7, 2010 A new book blames Audrey Hepburn for SATC2. Okay? Sort of? Everyone knows that Truman Capote wasn’t sold on Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, and … Continue reading
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“Marvellous” Audrey
I spent three days in Rome this summer and saw Audrey’s image all over the place. Romans – or at least, Roman tourists – love her. I’d only ever seen her in My Fair Lady and Sabrina, so when I got home I watched Roman … Continue reading
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