Raymond Chandler’s guide to prison, street, and Hollywood slang
Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman’s film version of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Long Goodbye.’ Raymond Chandler wanted to call his second Philip Marlowe…
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Can’t help it: John Waters on Jayne Mansfield and Hollywood’s first cum shot
‘American Venus,’ Joe Coleman’s portrait of Jayne Mansfield The Girl Can’t Help It is Frank Tashlin’s sophomoric and wildly entertaining 1956 salute to the throbbing…
Beautiful portraits of the Iconic Stars, Bad Girls and Pioneering Women of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Artist Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1960) is best known for his cover art for publications like Photoplay, the Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s Magazine. His work…
When Frankie Goes to Hollywood covered Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen was 24 when he wrote “Born to Run,” a bombastic, ambitious and successful endeavor to craft the rock-song equivalent of the Great American…
The Cramps now have a fake star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
via Vinyl Maniac When this appeared in my Facebook feed, it took me a moment to realize it was a fake. It went down like…
The Munsters live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1964
I know where I would rather be right now: watching the Munsters at the Hollywood Bowl with 10,000 screaming teenagers. Just me, Yvonne De Carlo,…
Frank Zappa’s Hollywood Hills rock star home is for sale for $9 million: Take a peek inside
Wowie Zowie! It’s the ultimate Frank Zappa fan’s stickiest wet dream. Buy–and live–in the great man’s former five-bedroom, 8000 sq ft home in the Hollywood…
‘Touch of Evil’: The movie that finished Orson Welles in Hollywood
In February 1957, Orson Welles walked onto to Stage 19 at Universal Studios to begin directing his first Hollywood movie in almost a decade–Touch of…