The Raven, Alma and Hemingway-esque
January 14, 2008 | 10:04 pm | Video | Reading, Watching | 1
The Raven (1963) has pretty fantastic credentials. It’s four main stars are Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a very young Jack Nicholson, and it was directed by Sixties B-movie deity Roger Corman. Only loosly based on the Poe poem (like, only the first and last lines), the movie fails to live up to it’s potential, though it might make an entertaining Saturday-afternoon special for that five-year-old in your life with an extreme appreciation for Hollywood horror royalty and a really long attention span.
After reading Jessa at Bookslut and Maud Newton’s raves about Junot Diaz I finally had the chance to read one of his short stories. You can too. It’s pretty good.
Up until a few days ago the only thing I knew about George Plimpton was that he gained his fame by being an active participant in his own stories. I had a minor-league crush on him after watching “When We Were Kings” (those blue eyes and that proper demeanor slayed me, especially in contrast to the gruff Norman Mailer), but this infamous story by Gay Talese about Plimpton and his friends at The Paris Review is pretty inspiring, in that I should have been born four decades ago kinda way.
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WHAT a GREAT READ, the Plimpton piece!
It sounded like Holly Golightly’s apartment was real! But that the chief partiers were a cluster of blueblood male beauties, rather than a glamor girl wannabe.
I now have to go watch “Lawrence” for the umpteenth time to see Plimpton’s walk-on.