Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin
From the Associated Press:
[Mayor] Newsom ordered American flags at City Hall and the rainbow flag in the Castro District to be flown at half-staff.
Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies at 87, San Francisco Chronicle
Hayes performing at Wattstax music festival in 1972, introduced by Jesse Jackson.
Hayes wanted to be a doctor, but got redirected when he won a talent contest in ninth grade by singing Nat King Cole’s “Looking Back.” –Associated Press
Isaac Hayes, 65, a Creator of ’70s Soul Style, Dies
Getty was evasive about her height, acknowledging only that she was “under 5 feet and under 100 pounds.”
Estelle Getty, Actress, Dies at 84, New York Times
Those legs.
More than all the slinking Cyd Charisse did with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, it’s the manic heights she scales with Kirk Douglas in Vincente Minnelli’s careening Two Weeks in Another Town that I’m thinking of. I wish there were a clip of her first scene in the film floating around youtube.
I’m pretty […]
From “Swann Song,” Judith Thurman’s account of Yves Saint Laurent’s final haute-couture show in 2002:
There was plenty of cerebral whimsy to offset the noirish sex play: feather minis suitable for a showgirl’s wedding to a peer; a minuscule suède tunic from the sixties worn with high-heeled waders; swanky cocktail dresses that exposed a nipple; a […]
Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73, New York Times
From Tootsie to Eyes Wide Shut, Michael Sragow, Salon
Sydney Pollack, 73; Oscar-winning director and producer, Los Angeles Times
“God forbid you should lose your standing as a cult failure.” YouTube
Mailer and Germaine Greer in 1971.
From the Guardian: “It was a quiet end to one of the loudest and most controversial voices in American letters.”
From Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s astonishing Town Bloody Hall, comes this immortal bit of Mailer: “If you wish me to act the clown, I will take out my modest little […]
Can’t say I shared Muschamp’s adoration of Frank Gehry, but I certainly marveled at his bravura essay on 2 Columbus Circle. Some excerpts:
Early on in the AIDS crisis, the city registered the cultural impact caused by the loss of gay artists. The effect produced by the loss of the gay audience is more insidious, however. […]
“One of the most ingenious, inspired and impressively stubborn sons-of-a-bitch the music industry ever saw”
That’s from Lee Hazlewood’s obituary on myspace. Hazlewood died Saturday in Las Vegas, but right now in the lefthand corner of his website, the little orange figure is blinking away: “Online Now!”
Hazlewood probably would’ve enjoyed the absurdity. He titled his […]
Trailer for Eclipse (1962).
“Modern Life is Rubbish: Antonioni on DVD,” Benjamin Strong in Fanzine
“A Chronicler of Alienated Europeans in a Flimsy New World,” Stephen Holden in The New York Times
“Hold That Shot: The languorous, achingly hip films of Michelangelo Antonioni,” Dennis Lim in Slate