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namin’ names: red scares
1952. Of the House Un-American Activities Committee and then Richard Nixon’s rise from there to the vice-presidency, of the black-listing of movie people, of the people like Elia Kazan and Robert Taylor, and Clifford Odets who went before the committee … Continue reading
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Tagged Abe Fortas, Arnie Riesman, clifford odets, Dalton Trumbo, Daniel Halpern Jr., Dashiell Hammett, Elia Kazan HUAC, Guilty by Suspicion movie, John Huston, John S. Wood HUAC, Joseph Rauh HUAC, Lillian Hellman HUAC, Lillian Hellman Scoundrel Time, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Dies, Martin Scorsese, Richard Nixon HUAC, Robert De Niro, Robert Taylor HUAC
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welles: frozen in the role of prodigy
Every discussion of Citizen Kane, or of any other Welles movie, is sure to bring up his camera sense. In Kane there is the brilliant pseudo newsreel of the great man’s death, the senate investigation scene that is modeled on … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, David Bordwell, Edward Bernays, H.G. Wells, Ivy Lee, James Naremore, John Houseman, John Huston, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles The Cradle Will Rock, Osron Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Bogdanovitch, William Wyler
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get rich quick
Get rich quick. There is no business like the money business. One of the most enduring and profitable businesses is the investment guides and investment newsletters where people pay sometimes substantial sums of money to receive investment advice. Many know … Continue reading
your money or your life: hoarding gold with the rat men
Currency Wars.It’s not called the gloomy science for nothing. A new book by economist James Rickards is scary stuff. Almost science fiction. It does lend oneself to Weimar like visions of the collapse of fiat currency and receiving wages on … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, charlie chaplin the gold rush, Damien Hirst, David Mamet, Donald Kuspit, Jacques Lacan, james rickards, John Huston, kate moss gold sculpture, mark quinn sculpture, Nicolas Poussin, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen
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ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Does our annoyance over the use of certain words mean we are against their use? Or so it would ostensibly appear. However, our distaste for certain cliche words, deemed annoying,and irritating are also, at some level,gifted with a compelling attraction, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Bernard Orr, Conrad veidt, Dooley Wilson, Dr. Caligari, Ed Goldberg, Fritz Lang, Gaudi, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey Bogart Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman, John Huston, Marist poll, Mary Azzoli, Nathan M. Rose, Patricia Reaney, Peter Lorre
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SHEDDING THOSE “TERRESTRIAL GARMENTS” TO THE BACK OF YOUR MIND
“But in the anxiety of the second half of the eighteenth century, the fear of madness grew at the same time as the dread of unreason: and thereby the two forms of obsession, leaning upon each other, continued to reinforce each other. … Continue reading
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