Where bad old movies go to die (and to be reborn)
Charles Busch is a prodigiously gifted writer and actor who also happens to be a peerless Hollywood historian. In search of vehicles for his own manic comic sensibility, Busch has mined old movies —...
View ArticleJennifer Aniston vs. Diana Damrau — no contest!
I saw two romcoms over the past few days, and would you believe that the one created in 1832 was funnier and sexier than its contemporary equivalent? Sad but true. The pairing of Diana Damrau and Juan...
View Article‘The Tribute Artist’: The peerless, unmissable Charles Busch
A walking history of film, the writer and actor Charles Busch creates plays that simultaneously praise and bury the acting and storytelling styles of the Golden Age of Hollywood. For more than 30...
View Article‘Veep’: the new golden age of TV continues
“Genius” is the most overused word in the Hollywood lexicon, but it’s hard to think of a better one-word description of Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Worthy of comparison with any of the top comediennes in...
View Article‘Government Girl’: Olivia de Havilland’s last straw
After watching the new Warner Archive DVD release “Government Girl” it’s easy to see why after being forced to do this lame 1943 comedy Olivia de Havilland became ever more resolved to launch a legal...
View ArticleThe return of ‘Only Angels Have Wings’
Although it was a big hit in 1939, the Howard Hawks aviation adventure film “Only Angels Have Wings” has been overshadowed by some of the other classics released in that fabulous year for movies....
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