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Trailer Trash: A Truly Different Adventure
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 13, 2009
Well, after last week's rather fevered offering, I thought it might be nice to screen something a little more torpid - and nothing guarantees torpid like the auteur touch of the late, great Doris Wishman.What with MJ having dragged her posse over here with her, I just know the l read more
Time for a Remake?
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 12, 2009
The Hilton Sisters, v. 1.0, were so much classier and more interesting than their modern namesakes, no? On the other hand, taking on a new version of this epic might be just the thing for Paris's flailing film career... read more
Having a Moment
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 10, 2009
A Garbo moment. Than which there is no finer kind. read more
Ruth Elizabeth
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 9, 2009
A study in celadon and cinnabar that presents a pensive, startlingly introspective Miss Davis, just because I think an extra dose of fabulosity is in order. Not that it usually isn't just this side of a necessity in any case, but you know what I mean. read more
An Incontrovertible Truth
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 6, 2009
Arguments to the contrary will be entertained, but will not be given much credence. We've seen too many, on top of being one ourselves.**That royal-first-person-plural never quite works out when used at length, does it? read more
Trailer Trash: Beyond the Valley of the Ultra-Cheapies
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 6, 2009
Herewith a new feature at the Café: the occasional look at Coming Attractions for films that, were I running a repertory cinema (remember those? Do you think there's any chance they'll come back?), would be in permanent rotation.Today, the incomparable Miss Tura Satana shows us read more
Pick a Card...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 3, 2009
...any card, from the dainty hand of silent screen siren Carmel Myers, one of the era's more plausible vamps.Carmel Myers fun fact: she was a cousin of our beloved Broadway Lady Betty Comden!And now is the time on the Café Muscato when we namedrop: I know this because Miss Comden told me so herself. read more
Sequelmania
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 3, 2009
Sadly, missing from this series are the posters for Caligula Takes a Trip, Swing Shift Caligula, and Caligula and Messalina Meet a Brooklyn Gorilla. read more
The Chief of Pickfair
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 2, 2009
In The Thief of Baghdad. Really, one rather sees what Mary saw in him...Forty years after he retired, Douglas Fairbanks could still make Grandmother Muscato a little misty when she mentioned him. Oh, there was Valentino, and Novarro, and all sorts of others - but Fairbanks? He was the one, for he read more
Soon it's Gonna Rain...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 30, 2009
So. Remember that spot of weather I mentioned a while back? It would seem we're in for a fair spell of it, something quite rare in these parts. In preparation for what looks to be a day or so of moderate rain with some thunder and lightning, all schools have closed for two days, and the Interwebs ar read more
The March of Time
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 29, 2009
The passing years are a challenge for even the greatest stars. One moment you're Queen of the Lot, at the top of your game, and the next you've started that long, slow slide that takes you through memoirs, TV movies, and appearances at increasingly obscure film festivals to oblivion.It can start wit read more
Birdie
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 27, 2009
"There's a message from the bartender. Does Miss Channing know she ordered domestic gin by mistake?" read more
Sigamos!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 26, 2009
Ginger's looking a little off in this poster for the overseas market, and I'm not sure that "la super-dreadnaught de las musicales" is the most enticing tagline of all time, but when you get right down to it, anything con Harriet Hilliard is okay by me... read more
To Be Or Not To Be - Bad!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 24, 2009
From 1930, sit back and enjoy the ... emphatic song-and-dance stylings of Miss Zelma O'Neal, putting across her big number, "I Want to be Bad" from the Paramount Technicolor spectacular Follow Thru.I just think she's adorable, and I'm mad for the flaming trumpets. But I would b read more
Gloria, Janis, and Dick
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 14, 2009
The bad girl of 1968 meets the bad girl of 1918. The latter outlived the former by a dozen years, which ought to tell you something. Gloria's seventy-odd here, and I'm deeply jealous of her shoulders. Janis appears vaguely to know where she is, but not much more. Dick is in read more
Sister, Sister
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 14, 2009
Dames Vanessa and Lynn in their halcyon youth, 1966. So beautiful. read more