Monthly Archives: February 2009

Estelle Bennett, 1942-2009

By Administrator | Published: Saturday, February 14, 2009
Estelle Bennett, Ronnie Spector and Nedra Talley-Ross Estelle Bennett, a Singer for the Ronettes, Is Dead at 67, NY Times
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oh Lana Turner we love you get up

By Administrator | Published: Thursday, February 12, 2009
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 [...]
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Circus School

By Administrator | Published: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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 [...]
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Joe Ades, 1934-2009

By Administrator | Published: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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 [...]
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