http://www.killfee.net A clearinghouse Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:58:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If I had not seen it with my own eyes this past week at MoMA, I probably would not have believed it possible that one movie could contain this and this. http://www.killfee.net/2008/06/22/taking-off/ 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 ... http://www.killfee.net/2008/06/18/cyd-charisse-1922-2008/ Have the Olsen twins been reading Little Dorrit? The New York Observer reports that the "puckered smile that makes the Olsen twins' seem engaged ("We're happy to be here!") yet reserved ("Teeth are so crass!") has a name. It's called "the Prune."" And I am reminded of my friend Frostine's wonderful (but ... http://www.killfee.net/2008/06/12/mary-kate-ashley-and-charles-dickens/ From Don Siegel's The Killers (1964). "I like what you're doing with the car. Just stick with that." Ronald Reagan delivers that line like he's taking direction from David Lynch. http://www.killfee.net/2008/06/06/aimless-on-the-internet-contd/ 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 ... http://www.killfee.net/2008/06/02/yves-saint-laurent-1936-2008/ New favorite internet discovery: Douglas Wolk's Mincing Up the Morning, which he describes as "a daily blog where I post a couple of videos by musicians whose birthday is that day." The duet between David Bowie and Cher is indescribable--must be seen to be believed. (Thanks, Anne.) http://www.killfee.net/2008/05/27/mincing-up-the-morning/ 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 http://www.killfee.net/2008/05/27/sydney-pollack-1934-2008/ The current issue of the Massachusetts Review is especially queer and especially fetching, with contributions from Laylah Ali, Shelley Jackson, Eileen Myles, Frank Bidart, Lee Gordon, Marilyn Hacker, and many others. From "Moments of Shared Glamour: A Conversation" by Gregg Bordowitz and Liza Johnson: This constitutes amity. We confer and on ... http://www.killfee.net/2008/05/18/the-massachusetts-review-springsummer-2008/ A review of Tobias Wolff's collection Our Story Begins in Newsday: link. http://www.killfee.net/2008/05/05/emour-story-begins/ Here's a link to my write-up in the Los Angeles Times of the Norman Mailer memorial last week at Carnegie Hall. I got to run on a bit about D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’s Town Bloody Hall, a documentary of a 1971 debate about Women’s Liberation, which features a slew ... http://www.killfee.net/2008/04/18/mailer-remembered/