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Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch
A beautiful, dark-haired woman flees from a car wreck and wakes up in a stranger’s apartment, suffering from amnesia. When asked her name, she looks at an old movie poster on the wall, and focuses on...
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2020: A Year in Film
Photo by Curtis Tappenden This photo was taken in Brighton just two winters ago, but it already feels like a distant memory. Founded in 1910, the Duke of York’s is the oldest operating cinema in...
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Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe
The front cover image presents – in extreme close-up and suffused in glitter – all the facial attributes of a screen goddess: the bedroom eyes, red lips, and of course her beauty mark (cut into the...
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And the (Posthumous) Oscar Goes to…
Last night’s Academy Awards was an unusual event in more ways than one. Firstly, the pandemic made it something of a bare-bones affair. And secondly, the favourite to win in the Best Actor category –...
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From Jeanne, to Bette: A Tale of Two Letters
Before its restoration in 2013, Jeanne Eagels’ penultimate movie, The Letter (1929), was falling into obscurity. But while the 1940 remake is more accomplished overall, Jeanne’s performance as a...
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Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances
“My God, I think there have been more books on Marilyn Monroe than on World War II, and there’s a great similarity.” So said Billy Wilder, who made two classic films with Monroe – and although the...
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At 95, Marilyn is Still in Bloom
Today, June 1st, marks what would be Marilyn’s 95th birthday. As the sun shines over Brighton for what seems like the first time since lockdown, this latest artwork from The Postman (based on a 1958...
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SOLEDAD #5: Lana, Alexandra and More
The ethereal blonde on the cover of SOLEDAD #5 is Alexandra Hay, best known for her supporting roles in late 1960s movies like Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Otto Preminger’s Skidoo, and as the...
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Donald Zec: Marilyn’s Man at ‘The Mirror’
Donald Zec, the British journalist who covered show-business for the Daily Mirror over four decades, has died at the grand old age of 102. He was born Donald Zecanovsky in London in 1919, one of...
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Charles ‘Jerry’ Juroe’s Year With Marilyn
Jerry Juroe with Marilyn at the Savoy Hotel, July 1956 Legendary movie publicist Charles ‘Jerry’ Juroe has died aged 98, Variety reports. He was born in San Francisco, and as a child, attended an...
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Sooner Or Later: Madonna and Stephen Sondheim
When the news broke on Friday, November 26, that the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim had died aged 91, the world’s theatrical community went into mourning. That evening, fans...
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2021: A Year in Music
As the world’s big sleep entered its second year, Lana Del Rey turned away from social media and gave us not just one, but two albums: Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters. The latter...
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2021: A Year in Film and TV
After Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins triumphs again with his serial adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s historical fantasy, The Underground Railroad. As fugitive Cora, actress...
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Peter Bogdanovich: From Marilyn’s Classmate to Hollywood Auteur
Peter Bogdanovich, the filmmaker, actor and historian, has died of natural causes at home in Los Angeles, aged 82. He was born in Kingston, New York in 1939, to immigrant parents who had recently fled...
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The Actress and the Goddess: Joan Copeland and Marilyn
Joan Maxine Miller was born to Augusta Barnett, a schoolteacher and housewife, and Isidore Miller, a Polish immigrant and clothing manufacturer, in Manhattan in 1922. She was their youngest child and...
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Madonna and the Breakfast Club
“I have been a fan of Madonna from the first time I saw her perform at a small suburban night club called Images on Long Island back in 1983. She was something otherworldly to me … I was mesmerised by...
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When Marilyn Met the Queen
“Marilyn’s trip to England may have lasted just four months, but my journey with this book has endured for three decades,” Michelle Morgan writes in introduction to When Marilyn Met the Queen. She...
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‘Dear Bobbybones’: Marilyn and Robert A. Miller
Robert A. Miller, the film producer son of Arthur Miller, has died aged 74, as Billy Fried reports for the Laguna Beach Independent. One of the privileges of hosting a radio talk show is getting to...
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The Many Faces of Nehemiah Persoff
The great character actor Nehemiah Persoff, whose many roles included the mobster ‘Little Bonaparte’ in Some Like It Hot, has died at the grand old age of 102. Nehemiah was born in Jerusalem in 1919....
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‘Fenella Fielding: Actress’– A Tribute in Art
Fenella Fielding was eighty-three years old when, in 2011, she wandered into a pilates class and set down her mat a little too close to Simon McKay’s. He glared at her territorially and she stared...
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