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You’re going out there a raw kid from the chorus but you’ve got to come back a star!
Birthdays: 1890 Warner Baxter, played The Cisco Kid in silents, character actor for Warners in the thirties. Notable role: director Julian Marsh in “Forty Second Street”. 1905 Annunzio Mantovani, born in Venice, Italy. Did you ever know he had a … Continue reading
Doc Holliday: “Since when is faro a business?”
Johann Strauss II (10/25/1825 – 6/3/1899) Austrian composer of many, many lovely tunes and charming operettas. Die Fledermaus (1874) is a masterpiece of joy and pleasure. ( J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus / Schwarzkopf, Gedda, Streich, Krebs, Kunz, Christ; Karajan.) Abel … Continue reading
The Ladies of Fredonia welcome you with open arms! – Asterbar Almanac
Bela Lugosi (10/20/1882 – 8/16/1956) Hungarian actor. Ed Wood , Jr. was an enormous admirer or Lugosi’s, and his films provided Lugosi’s last roles. I just learned that Lugosi rose to the rank of Captain in the Austrian-Hungarian Army during … Continue reading
Urne Burial
Birthdays: Sir Thomas Browne (10-19-1605 – 10-19-1682) English writer. Browne was a physician. He wrote his books at that wonderful period in the seventeenth century before English prose had settled down in the mold of Dryden and Addison and Steele. … Continue reading
Asterbar’s Almanac, October 18th
Born on October 18: Thomas Love Peacock (10/18/1785 – 01/23/1866) English writer. Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin English Library El 45). A unique and unusual novelist. Miriam Hopkins (10/18/1902 – 10/09/1972) US actor. Trouble in Paradise – Criterion Collection. … Continue reading
Quick Movie Note – Opening Night
We watched John Cassavetes’ Opening Night last night. What a great film. If you don’t know Cassevetes’ work, you should. He worked with a repertory company including Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands and himself to improvise (!) a series … Continue reading
Korean War Films
The Steel Helmet, 1951, is the great Sam Fuller’s Korean war drama. (If you don’t know Sam Fuller and you care about movies, run – don’t walk – to see Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, and yes, The Naked … Continue reading
Seeing movies again, decades later, Part II
I saw “Queen of Outer Space” at the movies in 1958. I was terrified. When I saw it again recently, I thought perhaps I had had the good sense to find the swanky late ’50s decor and costumes frightening, or … Continue reading
Seeing movies again, decades later, Part I
We watched the Israeli film “Sallah Shabati’, starring Chaim Topol. It’s a charming comedy about a family of Yemenite Jews who came to Israel in “Operation Magic Carpet” in the late ’40s. I saw it in the movies in 1964 … Continue reading