Links 8.23.12

Classic News / Reading Roundup:

Rudolph Valentino died suddenly 86 years ago today, the first time the moviegoing public convulsed in grief over a celebrity

15 novels eclipsed by their movie adaptations 

BLOGS / REVIEWS:

Lou Lumenick on this week’s dvd release of My Son John

Another Old Movie Blog tracks the use of Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” through film and toon (I always said, toons were great cultural education)

can’t believe August is almost over! day 23 of the TCM blogathon is Gene Kelly go see

also there’s the  Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon, hosted by the Classic Movie Blogs Association

FUTURE SHOPPING LIST MATERIAL:

Westerns and suspense-thrillers in Sony’s newest Columbia Classic DVDs for October

“Ma” Barker’s house. The actual house, in Orlando.

cool pic of the day from vintage sonia is a very young James Dean

 

About these ads

2 thoughts on “Links 8.23.12

comments ?

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s