Why hasn’t Diane Von Furstenberg won a Nobel Prize? If ever there was someone who has made significant contribution to mankind it is she. The impact of this ingenious invention cannot be underestimated. Forget diamonds being a girl’s best friend; a jersey wrap dress is a BFF that always has ...
For someone like me, who’s spent most of her life obsessed with the stars, stories and minutiae of Old Hollywood, something like You Must Remember This is a godsend. Like other popular well-researched podcasts that engage listeners in fascinating true life tales over the course of multiple ...
Like the Internet, podcasts do the great service of connecting all kinds of people to all kinds of people. It can connect us to people and content we’d otherwise never access. It can also hook us up with avocational soulmates who are into the same nutty, weird, hard-to-find stuff you’re into. ...
First, I hate the word "hot". I never use it in real life unless I'm satirizing something. I hate referring to people and their sexual appeal under some supposedly universal banner shoved in our faces in magazines, social media and the Internet. Not only do and should we have different ...
I hate it when people say they feel sorry for Melania Trump. I hate those "Free Melania" signs. Melania is not Rapunzel entombed in a tower, nor is she a frightened hostage bullied into submission by an oafish bully. Even looking at her through the most forgiving feminist ...
While classic movies are brimming over with dames, on average they parcel out one per film. The film of Noel Coward’s play, Blithe Spirit, happily eschews such miserly rationing. There are at least 3 dames, two of whom are some of my favorites. (More about that in a bit.)
Despite being ...
When I was ten-years-old boobs weren’t yet a thing, but they were still a thing. No one talked about them, but everyone talked about them. Or rather, talked around them. When I eavesdropped on grown-ups, I heard snickers about them. They were an unspoken but important thing. I could tell, ...
Getting rid of things is not my thing, face-facts-wise. Getting things is more my jam. I’m the nostalgic, flea-market-going, tchotchkes-lovin’ type. I have anthropomorphic toys from my childhood, almost a dozen t-shirts that haven’t fit since the Bush administration (the first one), ...
I’m often asked, “What is the ultimate dame movie?” (Ok, I’m the primary one asking myself that, but trust me, I ask myself a lot.) It’s too hard to come up with just one film, but I can say that a prime example of classic movie damery is definitely Howard Hawks’ His Girl ...
You’ve read the Jean Harlow post– now impress your friends (your easily impressedfriends) with these “Did You Know?” gems:
Jean Harlow and Hedy Lamarr were the primary inspirations for "Batman" creator Bob Kane's “Catwoman” character. For Kane, Jean "seemed to personify feminine ...
Just when you think the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, from behind the dark clouds drifts to Earth a radiant angel, dressed in a resplendent robe of shiny filmstrips and glittering tales of lore. With the soft God-like voice of Tim Curry, he allays mortals’ fears and yearnings with ...
Here’s the third and last chapter in my hard-wrought Top Ten Dame Movies list. It’s been hard to whittle down the list, and if I thought Part 2 was hard, this is even harder, since this is where I now have to leave off so many favorites. Still, if you end up seeing all 10 of the classic films ...
