My apologies but there were just too many tunes scratching at my brain with the kind of insistent talons only songs can have. Rather than endure that singular torture a melody that won't let you go can inflict, there's a Part 2 to my initial "Songs With Names in their Titles" playlist. Again, ...
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Listen y'all, before you chide me for not including some obvious choice, and/or mock me for the fact that I largely stopped listening to new music in the last century, give me props for my eclectic taste. My lists demonstrate my love of rock and roll, jazz standards, vintage country, R & B, gospel, even folk music from the British Isles.
I stick by my assertion that Barbara Stanwyck and Eve Arden are the quintessential dames of classic Hollywood. In their movies they usually embody the smart, strong, sharp-witted women who navigate the world on their own terms. Now Bette Davis, her pantheon of parts includes all kinds of ...
I’ve seen 1939’s The Women approximately 20,000 times, give or take, still it’s one of the few movies I always watch whenever it’s on TCM. (Despite the fact I own the DVD.) Though back in 1939 the trailer promoted it as “The Women – and it’s all about men”, this is not true. While men, “the ...
“I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.” ― from her memoir, Cast of Thousands
“One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to ...
My lady parts are like an iceberg; what one can see is only a fraction of what’s down there. (And there’s a whole climate change aspect to this analogy but let’s skip that for now.) Like most women, most of my life I inaccurately referred to the whole shebang as my vagina. Actually, vaginas ...
Janice Radway, one of my professors in college, was studying the behavior and meaning behind romance novels’ readership for her book, Reading the Romance. Her research found that many of the women in her study read multiple romance novels a day, sometimes 3 or 4! She told me that ...
Most vintage films tend to end with uncovering the murderer, two people we assume are going to get married – or they’re about cowboys. I have zero interest in westerns (except, of course, for the clothes) and usually marriage isn’t all that exciting. (Including my own. I ...
When you find yourself alone with a feeling of hopelessness and nothing but a pint (okay, a tub) of ice cream to assuage you, perhaps a classic movie that shines a spotlight on the unexpected but radiant possibility of love – with a minimum of treacle – will hit the spot. (As will the ...
(This piece was written several years ago, when I frequently wore Hawaiian dresses to dinner, to work, to vote, etc. Sadly, my sarong days are pretty much over, and I've sold almost all of them to people who can enjoy them like I did.)
Nothing says “I live in a fantasy world of my own ...
Take my advice, make sure your husband doesn’t murder you. I’m not saying this because when a wife is killed the husband is usually the first suspect they suspect. I may be saying this because I watched, roughly, 2 million hours of Law & Order. But I’m probably saying it because I’ve ...
Some are born blonde, while others have blondness thrust upon them. For the last 70 years, the moviegoing public has had a parade of foxy actresses’ blondness thrust upon them. (Not to mention the thrusting of their other attributes.) Whether they were born fair-haired or ...
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