Notes from the wrong shelf
Dispatches on books, music, movies, questionable cultural developments, history and whatever else refuses to stay in its assigned category.
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Star-Crossed
Nearly every great Frank Capra film was really a two-man act — Capra’s ideas, Riskin’s words, a partnership as gifted as Lennon and McCartney’s and, in the end, just as…
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Drip, Baby, Drip: Jackson Pollack and the Paint Machine
In the old comedy “What a Way to Go!,” every man Shirley MacLaine marries strikes it rich by some freak chance, then dies, leaving her alone again. One of them,…