LEONARD’S GIFT GUIDE
We thought it might be fun to come up with a short gift-giving guide for your favorite cinephiles. Please…
JOHN WAYNE, MARLENE DIETRICH,…
Imagine John Wayne hosting a television show like Entertainment Tonight. In a way he did, when he was rebounding from…
STAN & OLLIE &…
LAUREL & HARDY: THE DEFINITIVE RESTORATIONS (Kit Parker Films) I’ve been watching Laurel and Hardy since I was…
NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS…
PHANTOM LADY: HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER JOAN HARRISON, THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN BEHIND HITCHCOCK by Christina Lane (Chicago Review Press) Just…
THE AMAZING CHARLEY BOWERS…
In the early 1980s I attended the Ottawa Animation Festival, where I saw a handful of silent shorts that…
CAROLE LOMBARD DIRECTS ALFRED…
More than forty years ago, while doing research at the Lincoln Center branch of the New York Public Library,…
REMEMBERING MY FRIEND JIMMY…
Several years ago I got a phone call no one ever wants to receive: it appeared that Jimmy Karen…
