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‘Ma Rainey’s’ Incredible Detail, Revisiting ‘Popeye,’ ‘SNL’ Blurts It Out & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: https://twitter.com/RealEOC/status/1313222349265797121?s=20 TWITTER: Eyes on Cinema went viral posting this 1989 clip of audience reactions to the Batman trailer. Boseman & Davis bring the '20s alive in their 2020 take on a 1982 play. (Image via Netflix) VARIETY: The 1982 play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is now an amazing…

First Ladies: Opening Lines from 50+ Memoirs by Actresses

One of my favorite-ever posts at my LGBTQ blog Boy Culture was an exhaustive list of first and last lines from queer novels and novellas, here. (more…)

Blowing Up Her Image: A Review of ‘Bombshell’

If you're old enough to know who Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) was, her name probably conjures a handful of things: Great beauty, skinny-dipping, many husbands, Harvey Korman's Hedley Lamarr character in Blazing Saddles (1974), a shoplifting scandal. (more…)

Noir Paintings: Stick ’em Up … on Your Wall

If you're a fan of '40s and '50s noir movies and their femmes fatales, check out the paintings of Jane Ianniello, whose NoirscapesArt is represented by a store on Etsy. (more…)

Tag Archives: Hedy Lamarr

‘Ma Rainey’s’ Incredible Detail, Revisiting ‘Popeye,’ ‘SNL’ Blurts It Out & More

First Ladies: Opening Lines from 50+ Memoirs by Actresses

Blowing Up Her Image: A Review of ‘Bombshell’

Noir Paintings: Stick ’em Up … on Your Wall

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