The Patricia Highsmith Papers
The Swiss Literary Archives have made their Patricia Highsmith collection available online here. (Thanks, Kate!)
The Titanic, Mechanical, Time-Traveling Elephant.
“The Sultan’s Elephant was a show created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company, involving a huge moving mechanical elephant, a giant marionette of a girl and other associated public art installations. In French it was called, La visite du sultan des Indes sur son éléphant à voyager […]
RIP, Taylor Negron
Actor and comedian Taylor Negron has died. Negron appeared many films and television series including, Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982), Easy Money (1983), Better Off Dead (1985), The Last Boy Scout (1991), River’s Edge (1986), The Hughleys, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911! and That’s So Raven. The […]
“Johnny Depp: Where Did It All Go Wrong?”
At Multiglom, Anne Billson considers the career of Johnny Depp. “The watershed, of course, was Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Depp’s campy, flouncing Captain Jack Sparrow, modelled on Keith Richards, dismayed Disney executives, who thought he was ruining the film, but elevated a […]
The Fairy Tale Collection of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
“Once upon a time … the fairytales you thought you knew had endings you wouldn’t recognise. A new collection of German folk stories has Hansel and Gretel getting married after an erotic encounter with a dwarf, an enchanted frog being kissed not by a damsel in distress but […]
“The James Bond Songs That Never Were”
Cinema Reservoir has a collection of James Bond film theme songs “that never were.” (via @pornokitsch)
