“Top Ten Most Sexually Prolific Lesbians and Bisexuals of Old Hollywood”
Autostraddle has not only a top ten list of Hollywood Lesbians and Bisexuals, but a flow chart of relationships and you can see it here.
The Projection Booth: Johnny Guitar (1954)
At The Projection Booth, friend of the Gutter Mike White discusses the classic, campy and Queer Western Johnny Guitar (1954). “Western Month continues with a look at Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar. Released in 1954 the film stars Sterling Hayden as the titular Mr. Guitar. However, he’s outshone in […]
At Home with Joan
At Filmstruck, friend of the Gutter Kimberly Lindbergs takes a look at Joan Crawford’s apartment.
“Six Degrees of Joan Crawford”
At You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth looks at the life and career of Joan Crawford. The episodes on “Bette Davis and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?“ and “Mommie Dearest” might make excellent Halloween listening.
“The Feminine Grotesque: On The Warped Legacy of Joan Crawford”
At RogerEbert.com’s “Balder & Dash,” Angelica Jade Bastien writes about the complexity of Joan Crawford, her career and her image. “The image I hold of Crawford is one crafted from her various roles and interviews that have far more complexity than Mommie Dearest and her current legacy do. […]
“Classy Ladies, Scary Movies”
At Mostly Film, Blake Backlash writes about films “mixing of Hollywood’s Grande Dames with Grand Guignol.” “Such cinematic mixing of Grande Dames and Grand Guignol had its heyday in the second-half of the sixties, and such films are sometimes (more-or-less) affectionately known as psycho-biddy pictures. They tended to […]
The Cultural Gutter 