Laszlo's on Lex

It was Friday night; they usually closed slightly later to get the last minute business that was still straggling up from downtown. Instead of closing at nine, Ilsa was running an hour late. But ...

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--- What is this committed Julie Andrews enthusiast to do when he watches Star! and Darling Lili every time out, but shuns The Sound of Music? --- We’re told that James Thurber said of Ceci...

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Listen … has your office got a stove in it that lights with a match? I think so. Suppose you're in your office. You've been fighting duels all day. You're exhausted. This is you. A gi...

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The Preminger quote is often cited. But offered here because the picture is of interest: a 28-take photograph, perhaps.

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“If the heroes of Ford are sustained by tradition, and the heroes of Hawks professionalism, the heroes of Walsh are sustained by nothing more than a feeling for adventure.” • The Fordia...

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THE FOLLOWING ENTRY APPEARED IN A SLIGHTLY REVISED FORMAT ON APRIL 15 AND 16, 2010. Titanic The big ship ran across an ice field shortly before midnight. Within three hours, one of the great ...

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--- After watching Frankenstein last week, I still cannot rid myself of an image I have long had of an assistant director on the back lot shouting at the extras to turn in their instruments and...

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William J. Stewart, Jr. Born March 12, 1928. A reflection. He was a marine at the end of World War Two. He did not fight as a Marine but sure could fight when he was living with our family. He...

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Leonard Mosley recounts the following events in his Darryl Zanuck: the Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Last Tycoon. In 1951, Darryl Zanuck and the decision makers at Twentieth Century Fox strug...

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Suggested by Enola Stewart

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--- We’re told that when Molly Haskell married Andrew Sarris, Pauline Kael declined to attend the ceremony saying she would attend Molly’s next wedding. --- Stephen Lang's Stonewall Jacks...

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For those who might have missed David Hinckley’s review of the televised Oscar ceremonies. From the New York Daily News, Monday, February 28, 2011, the first two paragraphs only: Partway thr...

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IN WHICH WE SERVE June 20, 1943: Sunday (at Brum). Then Cath and I saw the film In Which We Serve. Splendid. We sat through it twice. Saw Dunkirk and several sea battles. Blitz on Plymouth was...

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Poster’s note: The bulk of Vere’s work has to do with the war and its impact. Captured in these extracts is the part of each entry dealing primarily with a film she saw. Sidelights about food...

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Vere Hodgson: And then it came to pass that the war came to Vere Hodgson. First on the radio, then on her local streets and later when the sky was full of aircraft. London: 1940. Ladbroke R...

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But then again, during those years, Vere Hodgson did have German bombers with which to contend. Three postings on the good Miss Hodgson and her Few Eggs and No Oranges will follow in days t...

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Andrew Sarris in "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet": The American Talking Film / History and Memory 1927-1949 discusses actresses tested for the part of the second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca. Margare...

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--- I wish I was in Hammersmith. --- I like the idea that Turner Classic Movies showed a baseball movie around the same time as The Super Bowl on February 6. --- We're told that when William ...

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