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Over at Feast of Fools, John Q. Sanchez patrols the internet so you don’t have to. Check out the video bounty of Tasty Zine. Here’s a sample:

Debbie Harry and the Muppets

A gray, rainy day calls for the blonds of yesteryear:

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Jim as Jack Bolton in Poison
I was very sad to learn that Jim Lyons died last Thursday. Known largely as a film editor, Jim was also an actor and a writer. He was a true and passionate cinéaste and a deeply generous man. It is difficult to put words to this tremendous loss, and so [...]

Hollywood lyricist Ray Evans passed away last week. With songwriting partner Jay Livingston, he penned the lyrics to “Mona Lisa,” “Que Sera, Sera,” “Silver Bells,” and the timeless words, “The ole hooty-owl hooty-hoos to the dove.” As sung by Debbie Reynolds in Tammy and the Bachelor:

Ray Evans, Lyricist of Hit Songs From Movies, Dies at [...]

Ruth Webb, a talent agent who specialized in comebacks, died on December 4. Her client list included Gloria Swanson, Mickey Rooney, Tonya Harding, Phyllis Diller, and Divine Brown. She was also fond of raccoons.
There, in a cloud of white satin bedsheets, Ms. Webb tirelessly worked the phones, persuading and cajoling, often nursing a live baby [...]

Here’s a link to my reviews in yesterday’s New York Times Book Review, including books on casting, Stephen Baldwin’s faith, Jimmy Stewart, Ellen Burstyn, and life on the edges of old Hollywood.

Belated: In a week that saw the passing of Ruth Brown, Anita O’Day, and Robert Altman, the death of Betty Comden seemed like one more sign that the twentieth century insists on slipping away. Thanks, then, to some twenty-first-century technology: a clip of Comden and Green singing “Carried Away” from On the Town at Art [...]

Little Annie (aka Annie Anxiety aka Annie Bandez) and friends will be at Mo Pitkins every Saturday in December.
Visual AIDS hosts a preview party for World AIDS Day tomorrow, Dec. 1, followed by the Postcards from the Edge benefit on Dec. 2 and 3: “the most exciting and affordable way to build a collection of [...]

Director Robert Altman dead at 81 (LA Times)
Robert Altman, Leading Director, Dies at 81 (NY Times)

Check out the Shortbus Salon for short films by Taylor Mac and Liza Johnson.