Liz Brown

Estelle Bennett, Ronnie Spector and Nedra Talley-Ross
Estelle Bennett, a Singer for the Ronettes, Is Dead at 67, NY Times

My review of Sam Staggs’ “Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life” appears in today’s Los Angeles Times. While revisiting Douglas Sirk’s film I poked around the internet a bit, and here are some findings:
Errol Morris speculates about the Ryberg Electronics label on the packing crates that Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) [...]

Photo by Anne Etheridge
Anne says that people in Portsmouth are more comfortable really being themselves, really being eccentric, than the people where she grew up in Mississippi. I don’t know if that’s true, but I can see why she said that. I’m pretty sure she said that when we were scouting, right before our shoot. [...]

I’m very sorry to learn from today’s New York Times that the white-haired gentleman with the elegant beard and wonderful lulling, trilling voice who sold vegetable peelers in Union Square and elsewhere has passed away. I am glad, though, to have learned his name.

From Howard Kaplan’s excellent 2006 profile in Vanity Fair:
Joe pushes his gear [...]