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Classic film of the week: "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949)
Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on Sep 23, 2009
Classic film of the week: "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) is based on a novel by John Klempner. His novel was entitled A Letter to Five Wives. Writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz thought the novel was too long and would be difficult to transfer to the screen. So read more
Trailer Trash: "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor..."
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 7, 2009
Richard O'Brien's Shock Treatment landed with a dull thud on release in 1981; this semi-sequel to Rocky Horror didn't please that film's rabid fan base and failed to find one of its own, hampered by one of those seemed-like-a-good-idea marketing concepts, screening the movie onl read more
It's a Look
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jul 23, 2009
I know these early snaps have already been all over the 'net, harbingers of Mr. Burton's upcoming interpretation of Alice in Wonderland. I'm particularly taken by this one, his lady-love Miss Bonham-Carter (and not everyone, ducks, can do two hyphenated phrases in a row) as the Red Queen.I think I a read more
A Cautionary Tale
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 23, 2009
Distinctly not a sequel to Flesh and the Devil. True story: VD strips you of your cocktail sheath, forces you to wear a cardigan and unflattering skirt, ruins your bouff, and may result in your spending time in a flesh pot in Africa. In the immortal words of Bela Lugosi: "Bevare - take care!" read more
Trailer Trash: A Truly Different Adventure
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 13, 2009
Well, after last week's rather fevered offering, I thought it might be nice to screen something a little more torpid - and nothing guarantees torpid like the auteur touch of the late, great Doris Wishman.What with MJ having dragged her posse over here with her, I just know the l read more
Time for a Remake?
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 12, 2009
The Hilton Sisters, v. 1.0, were so much classier and more interesting than their modern namesakes, no? On the other hand, taking on a new version of this epic might be just the thing for Paris's flailing film career... read more
Having a Moment
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 10, 2009
A Garbo moment. Than which there is no finer kind. read more
Pick a Card...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 3, 2009
...any card, from the dainty hand of silent screen siren Carmel Myers, one of the era's more plausible vamps.Carmel Myers fun fact: she was a cousin of our beloved Broadway Lady Betty Comden!And now is the time on the Café Muscato when we namedrop: I know this because Miss Comden told me so herself. read more
A Lakeshore Phenomenon?
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Feb 18, 2009
I am somewhat of a habitue of the Lakeshore Boulevard West neighbourhood in Toronto. A few blocks from hearth (computer) and TCM, it houses my laundromat, my bank, a variety of grocery and dollar stores, coffee shops, a 7-11 and my Avon lady. While going about my routine of laundry, coffee and che read more
A Galaxy of Birthdays
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 17, 2009
If you feel a little something special in the air today, perhaps it's a result of the extraordinary energy generated by the fabulous creatures celebrating their birthdays.The glorious Dalida, international sensation and tragic muse;Miss Sheree North, who made it through a rocky start as a Marilyn-wa read more
A Word to the Wise
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 31, 2008
For those planning a festive night out, remember:Beware the Truth Seekers. And the Givers. read more
Birthday Lady: A Helluva Christmas Gift
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 24, 2008
On Christmas Eve 1922, Ava Gardner joined this low world and made it, somehow, for 67 years more radiant, more extraordinary. She was the unlikely product of a poor Southern family, so extravagantly beautiful that really she had no choice but to become an international film star. She was not, perhap read more
A Moment in Time
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 13, 2008
A day to remember: exactly 54 years ago today, Angela Lansbury had a hamburger with Basil Rathbone, at lunch in the Paramount commissary. It looks like Basil may be having liver.Have I mentioned how much I adore having the Life archive available online? read more
Birth of a New Tradition
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 7, 2008
"Honestly, Irving, I don't see what you're getting so worked up about. Your mother? For God's sake, you can just tell your mother it's something else. Oh, I don't know ... some kind of - Chanukah bush! That's it!" read more
Ottawa must be a really nice city...
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Dec 4, 2008
So many folks are so anxious to set up permanent residence. There's the slow, but steady Conservative PM of the "minority, but more than he had last time government". The Liberal leader who lost in excess of 20 seats in the last election a couple of weeks back. The smug NDP super-spender. Oh, an read more
Portrait of a Shady Lady
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 8, 2008
She may have ended her life as one of the screen's beloved characters, a second-tier, more rough-and-tumble Jessica Tandy, but in her youth Sylvia Sidney was something of a fast baggage and, as we see here, not without her charms. These she did not hesitate to use, parlaying a romance with Paramount read more
(Sad) Birthday Girl: She was a Winner...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 8, 2008
110 today is silent siren Marie Prevost, seen here at the height of her considerable charm.A top star for half-a-dozen years in the early and mid-20s, Marie had a saucy gleam and a terrific figure; even in a getup as bizarre as this, she seems oddly contemporary. Sadly, the coming of sound, the bott read more
In a Kingdom by the Sea
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 21, 2008
"The Kings of Hollywood," by Slim Aarons, 1957Proof positive that Old Hollywood had it nailed, glamourwise: even Van Heflin looks fab, although I think Coop may have had a drop too much. Wouldn't you like to have spent New Year's Eve at Romanoff's, once upon a time? read more
Such a Nuisance!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 19, 2008
Will someone please remind Bollywood superstar Upen Patel that I am a happily married man? Just because we've let him into the kitchen doesn't give him the right to haunt my dreams! read more