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RIP: Jupiter's Darling Says Goodnight
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 6, 2013
Sad news from Hollywood: the Million Dollar Mermaid has returned to Fabulon. At 91, Esther Williams had a long and what seems to have been a very interesting life. While there is more than a little truth in the old crack that "wet she's a star, dry she ain't," there's no denying her success - read more
Birthday Boy: Thriller
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 27, 2013
I'm increasingly intrigued by the plethora of video riches now available for the asking on YouTube, not to mention taking advantage of same to fill some lamentable gaps in my education. This weekend, for example, when not riveted by the Divine Miss M., I caught up on a very odd little film tha read more
Birthday Boy: Thriller
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 27, 2013
I'm increasingly intrigued by the plethora of video riches now available for the asking on YouTube, not to mention taking advantage of same to fill some lamentable gaps in my education. This weekend, for example, when not riveted by the Divine Miss M., I caught up on a very odd little film tha read more
The Same Old Story...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 21, 2013
...and it really was a tale of love and glory. Four was the charm for Bogie, and 20-year-old Betty Perske found herself, at 20, embarked on a marriage that completed her transition into Lauren Bacall. They were two radically different people, at totally different times in their lives, bu read more
The Same Old Story...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 21, 2013
...and it really was a tale of love and glory. Four was the charm for Bogie, and 20-year-old Betty Perske found herself, at 20, embarked on a marriage that completed her transition into Lauren Bacall. They were two radically different people, at totally different times in their lives, bu read more
Birthday Boy: Homespun Hotness
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 20, 2013
James Stewart (105 today, in a better world) isn't always thought of as one of Hollywood's lookers, but he could do a dreamy gaze into the middle distance with the best of them.
He also does yearning awfully well, and for someone mostly remembered for his good humor and folksy charm, he has an off read more
Birthday Boy: Homespun Hotness
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 20, 2013
James Stewart (105 today, in a better world) isn't always thought of as one of Hollywood's lookers, but he could do a dreamy gaze into the middle distance with the best of them.
He also does yearning awfully well, and for someone mostly remembered for his good humor and folksy charm, he has an off read more
Birthday Stars: C'mon Along...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 5, 2013
It's surely only happenstance that the attractive couple above share a birthday, but it's a pleasing conjunction of circumstances nonetheless.
Alice Faye and Tyrone Power made only three pictures together; all of them - In Old Chicago, Alexander's Ragtime Band (ballyhooed in this still), a read more
Birthday Stars: C'mon Along...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 5, 2013
It's surely only happenstance that the attractive couple above share a birthday, but it's a pleasing conjunction of circumstances nonetheless.
Alice Faye and Tyrone Power made only three pictures together; all of them - In Old Chicago, Alexander's Ragtime Band (ballyhooed in this still), a read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Ave, Vale...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 4, 2013
"Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot
be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.'"
- Susan Sontag
I've found myself thinking, rather to my surprise, a lot about Deanna Durbin since we learned of her death earlier this week. I've also listened to her read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Ave, Vale...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 4, 2013
"Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot
be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.'"
- Susan Sontag
I've found myself thinking, rather to my surprise, a lot about Deanna Durbin since we learned of her death earlier this week. I've also listened to her read more
Prime Beef, Delhi-Style
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 2, 2013
Dear Mr. John Abraham has gone distinctly butch for his latest epic, a rather grim-looking picture called Shootout at Wadala. He sports a rather more traditional Bollywood hero than usual - short hair and trim moustache, and is even more than usually formidably fit. I thought about running the read more
RIP: The Girl Who Walked Away
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 1, 2013
Another great one gone: Universal's savior, the little girl with the prima donna voice, Deanna Durbin. As this shot proves, she had the moxie to make it as a grown-up star, but instead left for France and more than six decades of what sounds like a perfectly happy and rewarding private life. & read more
RIP: The Girl Who Walked Away
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 1, 2013
Another great one gone: Universal's savior, the little girl with the prima donna voice, Deanna Durbin. As this shot proves, she had the moxie to make it as a grown-up star, but instead left for France and more than six decades of what sounds like a perfectly happy and rewarding private life. & read more
Birthday Boy: American Auteur
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 22, 2013
The artist and his muse
One of American's great contributions to the world of cinema came into the world 67 years ago today, and in many ways, he has been as influential in shaping my appreciation of the movies as anyone this side of Griffith and Gish. Working with the extended repertory com read more
Birthday Boy: American Auteur
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 22, 2013
The artist and his muse
One of America's great contributions to the world of cinema came into the world 67 years ago today, and in many ways, he has been as influential in shaping my appreciation of the movies as anyone this side of Griffith and Gish. Working with the extended repertory comp read more
Why Don't You...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 15, 2013
...cultivate an enigmatic expression?
After all, it was terribly effective on dear Miss Aline MacMahon here. And her usually so jolly, too... read more
Why Don't You...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 15, 2013
...cultivate an enigmatic expression?
After all, it was terribly effective on dear Miss Aline MacMahon here. And her usually so jolly, too... read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Hula-balloo
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 13, 2013
"We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as fantasy when it is not our own."
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
In this case, the fantasy appears to be Robert Young's, a few decades before his immortalization as Dr. Marcus Welby. That it features perhaps the least Polynesian person ever to live, read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Hula-balloo
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 13, 2013
"We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as fantasy when it is not our own."
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
In this case, the fantasy appears to be Robert Young's, a few decades before his immortalization as Dr. Marcus Welby. That it features perhaps the least Polynesian person ever to live, read more