On the Eve of the Oscars: Anthony Hopkins

Hopkins interview:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/anthony-hopkins-remembers-it-all

Show Biz Abuse: a Literal Killer

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/the-music-man-star-sutton-foster-breaks-silence-on-scott-rudin-abuse-allegations

Happy Birthday, Belle Bennett

You won the role of the very first Stella Dallas over 74 other actresses under consideration for the Samuel Goldwyn in 1925, and instantly became legendary as result.

Here you are, in the devastating final scene.

You trained as a circus trapeze artist as a child, discovered quite young by Belasco in the theater, starred on Broadway and began making silent films in 1913. Married three times, you were performing in vaudeville when you collapsed onstage in Philadelphia from a recurrence of cancer you’d been suffering with for two years. A plane flew you back to Los Angeles in 1932, where you died at Cedars of Lebanon that year, age 41.

Happy Birthday Charlotte Rae

here is a special, unseen side of her beloved Mrs. Garrett

and towards the of her life, talking about her memoir The Facts of My Life. She endured alcoholicism, an autistic son at a time when treatment was just being pioneered and a husband who came out as bisexual, after years of marriage.

Happy Birthday Patti Lupone

how you scorched the house with this, at Sondheims birthday celebration…hopefully you will be able to reprise this when the COMPANY finally reopens on Broadway

Celebrating Ruth Carter & Black Style

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210326-how-african-fashion-has-conquered-film

happy birthday Claire Denis

Claire du Cinema

Claire du Cinema

Claire du Cinema

happy birthday Norman Parkinson

a very British kind of glamour, indeed

Uma Thurman’s mother model Nenna von Schlebrugge discovered by Parkinson at age 14…she now runs Tibet House

The Conundrum aka Mike Nichols

the biography of him by Mark Harris is enthralling… who knew he was into crack cocaine – though i don’t think he shared that with Diane Sawyer?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/08/who-was-mike-nichols-when-he-wasnt-playing-mike-nichols

happy birthday Elaine May

forever one of the funniest women on the planet, uncannily youthful and until my dying day i will champion the hysterical film she did with Marlo Thomas written by her daughter Jeannie Berlin, IN THE SPIRIT (1990). Directed by acting guru Sandra Seacat, no one saw it and it was strictly THEIR loss.

here are her & Thomas impersonating c. 1990 hookers to shake down some criminal info from (always )working girl Melanie Griffith in her greatest onscreen moment