Category Archive: Stage & Screen
Gypsy Queen
The sound of her voice kills me. Her dancing is beyond divine. The bravado. And then there are her intensely frilly and polka-dotted costumes. I feel like August is the time of year when I yearn for Carmen Amaya (1913-1963),…
Two Lillies
In the late 1800s, few women were as infamous as the two Lillies—Lillian Russell and Lillie Langtry. And with their curvaceous good looks, and shocking reputations, it seems likely that few had more fun. Lillian Russell (1861-1922) was a vaudevillian…
Dream Sequence
Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky‘s sublime Polaroids are as dreamy as his films. A few years ago a small book of Tarkovsky’s photographs, Instant Light, came out, to much acclaim. Now two blogs have posted a selection of the best of…
“When my love swears that she is made of truth…”
Watch Royal Shakespeare Company’s Trevor Nunn school one of his peers in how to read a Shakespeare sonnet—here, Sonnet 138. Each sonnet is like a soliloquy, he explains. The results of his efforts are remarkable. Thanks to Nico for passing this…
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