She was born Norma Jean Baker in 1926, but she died Marilyn Monroe in 1962. Between those two dates and names lived one of the 20th century’s most enduring icons—a not-unusual collection of complications and contradictions exacerbated all the more … Continue reading BLONDE
1959: Fourteen years after the war ended and five years before The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show, the cinema started to go democratic. Cameras were smaller, weighed less, and were cheaper, thereby allowing independent directors to make movies they wanted to … Continue reading Film/STILL 1959
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. —Billy Wilder Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, July 18, 2013
Michael J. Cinema 