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• The Fascinating Story of Cecil DeMilles Lost City

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 755
  Hollywood has a sad history of lost props and costumes. On one hand, you cant blame them. Who can predict what is going to become iconic? Why not reuse that pretty white dress from The Seven Year Itch ? But then there are unforgivable examples. The Wizard of Oz was pretty iconic by the time MGM decided to do a ...
  23 hours ago

• The return of the Biblical movie?

  
  Blogs - — Authority: 490
  Over at the Guardian, Anne Billson traces how the Bible pops up repeatedly (if not always in a theologically approved manners) in apocalyptic/horror movies. Her argument is sometimes shaky -- is Frank Langella in "The Box" really a Jesus figure? -- but its a useful way of drawing together different strains of ...
  1 week ago

• Poster Comparison No. 8 – The Holy Man and the Cataclysm

  
  Bright Lights After Dark — Authority: 117
  I like these two movie posters, one for Roland Emmerich’s 2012 (2009), the other for Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956), and I suspect their similarity is anything but coincidental.  Both posters show Holy Men dressed in garments of flowing red and orange, both men perched on top of ...
  1 week ago

• Sunday afternoon with Quang Pham and Katherine Smith

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 516
  Katherine Smith and Quang Pham at her home, Sunday March 7.  Copyright 2010. All rights reserved.It’s not often that we can spend a pleasant afternoon with two candidates competing for the same Congressional seat outside a traditional political setting.In my January interview with Katherine Smith, GOP candidate for ...
  1 week ago

• Lindsay And Ungaro Part Ways; YSL Designer Sues Paper For Reprinting His Racist Comments [Rag Trade]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 809
  "Shes not involved in this collection," said Ungaro owner Asim Abdullah just before his show commenced this afternoon, Paris time. He was referring, of course, to "artistic adviser" Lindsay Lohan , whose future at Ungaro had long been in doubt. [ WWD ] Rather than attend the Oscars, as she had planned, ...
  1 week ago

• Is the TTC really an essential service?

  
  The Toronto Observer — Authority: 514
  The state of the TTC is under scrutiny yet again, this time due to a private member’s bill, submitted Jan. 22 by Liberal MPP David Caplan . The bill would make the TTC an essential service and make future strikes illegal, preventing TTC workers from walking off their job as they did in 2008. City council ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bee for Me?

  
  Sparkle the Designer Cat — Authority: 421
  You’ll never believe what I found! Well, okay, Boodie saw it first but I immediately claimed it as mine. Could you see it? No? I guess I’ll have to help you out. And in case you still can’t tell what it is, here’s the ECU (that’s filmspeak for “Extreme Close Up.” You learn these things when you ...
  2 weeks ago

• Revered and Reviled: D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’

  
  The Moving Arts Film Journal — Authority: 121
  “We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue – the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word – that art to which we owe the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Gate House by Nelson DeMille

  
  A Bookworm's Reviews — Authority: 112
  About the book : When John Sutters aristocratic wife killed her Mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Avoiding Car Theft

  
  Donna Magazine — Authority: 139
  Sarah Demille Writes about Avoiding Car Theft - Photo Courtesy of Dreamstime.com Sarah DeMille 02/16/2010 Online Piece Car owners in the GTA are being encouraged to properly lock up their cars and remove GPS units, mounting equipment, and place other valuable assets out of view when they leave their cars. This ...
  3 weeks ago

• Adam Giambrone, TTC Sex Scandal, Soduku

  
  Donna Magazine — Authority: 139
  Sarah Demille Writes about the challenges of Adam Giambrone in the TTC - Photo Courtesy of Dreamstime.com By Sarah Demille Adam Giambrone received yet another blow to his chance at securing a position as the next Toronto mayor. On the heels of the heat he has been receiving for TTC shortfalls experienced within ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Godless Girl (1928, d. Cecil B. DeMille)

  
  Cinema Styles — Authority: 479
  I went into The Godless Girl with a bit of trepidation. After all, it was made in 1928 so I wasnt expecting to find a fair, even-handed assessment of the rejection of religion and belief in G od, specifically Christianity. If anything, I was expecting to find the demonization of atheism and pretty much thats what ...
  4 weeks ago

• Marion Davies, Ronald Colman, Constance Talmadge, Phyllis Haver: “Sound and Silents”

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 647
  "Sound and Silents" is the title of a four-film series — part of the wider "Birds Eye View Film Festival" celebrating women filmmakers — to be held at London’s bfi Southbank and the Barbican from March 6-10.The four screening silent films are: King Vidor’s The Patsy (1928), starring Marion Davies; Sidney ...
  4 weeks ago

• Top 20: Unearthing My Own Uncool

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 739
  Film blogger and sometimes Turner Classic Movies’ programmer, The Self-Styled Siren, came up with a terrific idea for a movie list : That which we love in filmdom that puts our cool credentials into question (And yes, I do have Cool Credentials. My mother keeps them with my badminton trophies). Siren describes ...
  5 weeks ago

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