Monthly Archives: September 2005
Mrs. Robinson Memento
Thanks to IMDB.com I learned that Anne Bancroft would have been 74 tomorrow, an appropriate occasion, I think, to post a rather stunning image from a Dover paper doll book. I love this Tom Tierney illustration for the completely incongruous pair that Mrs. Robinson and Annie Sullivan make. They’re my two favorite Bancroft roles, although [...]
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Stephen Holden Turns It Out: Metaphors on Speed
Cabaret Review. How my heart leaps when I see those two words in the Arts Section of the NY Times. I don’t always clamor for Stephen Holden’s film criticism, but it’s a different story when it comes to his thoughts on the supper-room stylings of Eartha Kitt, Keely Smith, the late Bobby Short, and others. [...]
Life Like
See Joseph’s Similes at Harlequin Knights.
“Michael Jordan, Save the World”
This past April, during a short stay in Philadelphia, I stopped in at the Fleisher Art Memorial. It was meant to be a brief visit, more of quick turn than a real tour of the nation’s oldest tuition-free art school. But then I got to the second gallery of the exhibition and I stood dumbfounded. [...]
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