livingromcom.typepad.com - 3/2/2008
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While half the blogs in the known universe are posting reactions to the 2008 Oscars telecast (Javier Bardem actually won for No Country ?! OhmyGod!!! But seriously, best speech: Tilda Swinton), Living RomCom would like to talk about the Oscars show from 1968 -- as relived in one absolutely scrumptious book.
By this time in 2009, you'll prob'ly have a hard time even ...
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Screenwriting News & Links! 3/1/08
Mystery Man on Film —
... led them to quit the business. In 1950 she ‘bid farewell, without tears, to the Hollywood screen industry that had so entangled and entrapped me in its web of promises.’ Maas trashes Hollywood legends, recalling Louis B. Mayer as ‘a very fearful, insecure man;’ Clara Bow dancing nude on a tabletop; Jeanne Eagels squatting to urinate in the midst of a film set; and Marion Davies commenting on her affair with Hearst: ‘I'm a slave, that's what. A toy poodle…’” Billy Mernit recommends Mark Harris's Pictures at a ...
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