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Oscar Party; Or An Irresistible Combination of Events

We open on the hands of Oscar Levant.  At the piano, playing a Gershwin tune.  An offscreen voice announces it’s “The Oscar Levant Show,” with Oscar Levant, June Levant (his wife), and “Oscar’s special guest,” Fred Astaire.  As the camera pulls back, we see Oscar finish the piece, then rise from the piano bench as he grabs a lit cigarette from ...


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Feuding With Glenn Ford

I’m tossing out a suggestion (free of charge!) to the makers of FX’s Feud.  You know, that TV anthology series about bitchy, dishy quarrels between rich, famous, and sometimes Beautiful People, which result in—disputes, disasters, and epic loss. ...


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Strolling Through the Elysian Fields

“Imagine you’re on vacation,” says the anesthesiologist to me at the start of an anodyne, but embarrassingly intimate procedure about which I don’t care to elaborate, “imagine you’re in a place you want to visit, and you’re now there…”.    “I’m in Paris,” I think to myself, “and I’m strolling down the Champs-Élysées with Buster Keaton…”

So, in ca...


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Roundabouts

In his autobiography Charles Chaplin writes how, in his early days at Keystone, he taught himself film technique, learning that:  “Because economy of movement is important you don’t want an actor to walk any unnecessary distance ...


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Stopping for Death

Zohra Lampert, who plays the title character in the moody 1971 horror film Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, is not a beauty.  She’s tall, thin, a little clunky, and, seen in long shots, walks (and runs) like a gawky colt that hasn’t quite grown into its legs.  She’s not your typical Hollywood Heroine.  In closeups, though, I found Lampert’s face o...


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