From Jitterbuzz.com:
Fred Astaire sought him out at a party and said, “I have always wanted to dance like you.”
Fayard Nicholas, 91; He Was Elder Half of Tap-Dancing Nicholas Brothers
Photo: Fayard and Harold Nicholas
From Interview magazine, May 1996:
Graham Fuller: [Charles] Laughton directed you in The Night of the Hunter. How did he film you in that incredible underwater shot where your character is drowned, her hair drifting like seaweed?
Shelley Winters: Oh, that wasn’t me. They used a model and made a mask of my face, which in those […]
The Intruder is still here. I had rushed out last night to catch what I thought was the last screening of Claire Denis’s gorgeous, mesmerizing film at Cinema Village. Looks like the run has been extended–more chances to give yourself over to the hallucinatory and the visceral. And to Grégoire Colin. The movie centers on […]
Thrilled to come across Sue Bell’s review of the Bee Gees’ newly released Love Songs. Over at Stylus, Bell contends–and I couldn’t agree more–that “the Brother Gibbs’ best came before polyester.” Her close listening to the exquisitely heartbreaking ballad “To Love Somebody” is particularly fine:
…in such cases of unrequited angst, there is little room, all […]
Maybe the indictment really is “Washington’s hottest literary form.” Mark Leibovich at the Washington Post thinks so. Could the charging document someday eclipse the memoir? It’s too soon to tell, but in only a few months, we’ve seen the genre grow at an absurdly fast pace: Libby, DeLay, Safavian, Scanlon, Abramoff. And yet, as reading […]