Brennan had the best lines in the script. Dispensing justice from his saloon bar, he declares, Don’t spill none of that liquor, Son. It eats right into the bar.
Brennan almost never accepted the clothes that studios designed for his parts. He called himself a dirty actor, by which he meant that the grungy duds he wore on-screen were his own. Brennan had to sm...
As much as most kids growing up I liked digging for buried treasure, and when there was no buried treasure to be found, I buried some myself for later discovery. I think of my subjects the same way: t...
April 21: A Ticket to Tomahawk is released. Marilyn plays Clara, one of four showgirls. She makes four appearances (with dialogue) in group scenes and musical numbers.
April 16: An alarmed Weinstein tells screenwriter Walter Bernstein that Marilyn wants major changes in the script. She rejects one section as sentimental schmaltz.
A letter from Brian Brivati, Gaitskill’s biographer, led Michael to describe an incident at Porto Fino. On holiday there, Michael and Jill ran into Gaitskill, who was accompanied by one of Michael fri...
A Private Life of Michael Foot is an effort to show how a biographer struggles to tell his own story, even as family and friends cherish differing narratives about that same subject.
Writing biography is a shameless profession, an exercise in bad taste, a rude inquiry.