Celebrating the Living: Doris Day
I honestly routinely forget she’s still alive. In my head, I think she died some…
Attention Must Be Paid: Roscoe Arbuckle
The first “Fatty” Arbuckle short I’ve ever seen is in a Warner Archives collection of…
Celebrating the Living: Paul Rudd
He’s not actually a Highlander. If you look, especially in Civil War, you can see…
Attention Must Be Paid: L. M. Montgomery
There was more to her than Anne. In fact, she rather seems to have resented…
Celebrating the Living: Eva Marie Saint
Oddly, I think she was funnier in the drama I think of her in than…
Attention Must Be Paid: Roger Ebert
I was pregnant with my son when Roger Ebert died. A friend of mine called…
Celebrating the Living: S. Morgenstern
It turns out to be astonishingly difficult to do research on S. Morgenstern. Despite the…
Attention Must Be Paid: Florence Lawrence
Once again, we are looking at someone whose films I don’t know. There are some…
Celebrating the Living: Lois Burwell
Makeup is one of those categories when we tend to think “most” when we mean…
Attention Must Be Paid: Bob Cuff
In my determination, these last two months, to celebrate primarily the living and the dead…