Liz Brown

I really assumed she’d live forever. Such amazing delivery and timing.

Bea Arthur, star of ‘Golden Girls’ and ‘Maude,’ dies at 86, LA Times
Golden Girl Bloopers, YouTube

The detective series starring John Cassavetes as a jazz pianist turned private eye lasted one season (1959-60). Jay Maeder in the Daily News writes that Johnny Staccato “was regarded as just too downbeat and strange – too hip for the room, as they say.” But there are twentysome episodes circulating. A commenter on IMDB.com provides [...]

Last week it was 1965 and John Cassavetes was driving a French journalist through the Hollywood Hills to his home, snapping his fingers along to the Beach Boys, and joking about making a musical of “Crime and Punishment.”
In the clip below nearly twenty years have passed, but this appears to be the same house from [...]

The most compelling blogs seem to manage a perfect balance of immediacy, regularity, and self-exposure. New York Hack and Thirty-Year-Old Secretary, two that I followed closely and are both now on indefinite hiatus, were also highly specialized, which I found appealing. These offered windows onto particular professions, a cab driver and a secretary. The latter [...]