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Mildred Pierce

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    HBO's Mildred Pierce: A Good Review!

    ​Joan Crawford must be rolling because Todd Haynes has apparently done a solid job in adapting Mildred Pierce into a five-hour HBO miniseries that will premiere on March 27. Cultural critic Brendan Lemon liked Kate Winslet in the part--she's right for it, and has the time to flesh it out--and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Film Critic's New Novel Gets Thumbs Up

    ​It's exceedingly difficult for a journalist to write a novel, which I found out when I did just that at the onset of the 1990s and loudly flopped with it. I had all the details right. I just couldn't build a strong work of fiction around it since it felt like a work of non fiction being suff ... More >>

  • Film

    November 10, 2010

    Poison at 20

    ​It's exceedingly difficult for a journalist to write a novel, which I found out when I did just that at the onset of the 1990s and loudly flopped with it. I had all the details right. I just couldn't build a strong work of fiction around it since it felt like a work of non fiction being suff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Really Old Movie Gossip

    ​*Joan Crawford had a lifelong sexual crush on her arch rival Bette Davis and once tried to seduce Marilyn Monroe, which promptly ended their friendship. *Bette Davis turned down Mildred Pierce, which turned out to be Crawford's Oscar role, jumpstarting her faded career.

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    New York Tale: Loyal Butler Scores $8.4M Estate

    ​There's a classic New York tale in the Wall Street Journal's new Greater New York section and it's one that's got to set teeth on edge over at the rival Times for a couple of reasons. The story's about how a loyal immigrant butler -- one Indra Tamang who was raised in a "mud house in a farmi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Kate Winslet Cancels Out of Autism Premiere

    ​The big draw for tonight's premiere of HBO's A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism was the little lady who did the narration--someone by the name of Kate Winslet. Several journalists I know were planning to go in hopes of cornering Kate to ask her, not about autism, but about her upcomi ... More >>

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