Showing posts with label Huffington Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Huffington Post. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Louise Brooks on Huffington Post by Thomas Gladysz

The Louise Brooks Society went online in the summer of 1995, around the time amazon.com, Netscape and other pioneering websites first launched. As such, it is among the older surviving websites. One of the goals of the LBS is to "get the word out" about the actress via its website, social media, real world advocacy (screenings, exhibits, books, research, etc...) and online journalism. To mark the 25th anniversary of the LBS, I thought to post links to some of my past articles about the actress.

This post marks the beginning of a mini-series highlighting some of my online journalism. Over the past decade or so, I have written dozens of pieces - perhaps a few hundred, about Brooks and various facets of her life and career. These pieces were published on Huffington Post, examiner.com, PopMatters, Film International, Fandor, City Brights (the blog for SFGate / San Francisco Chronicle), Open Salon (the blog for Salon), and elsewhere. The best of my various pieces were collected in my 2018 book, Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star.

This mini-series begins with my pieces on Huffington Post. Back in the day, I contributed numerous pieces not only to the national Huffington Post website but also to their once regional news sites (San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Denver, Los Angeles). I even had three pieces on Huffington Post UK.

Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star.” Huffington Post, August 22, 2017.

Long Missing Louise Brooks Film Found.” Huffington Post, March 30, 2017.

Opera with Louise Brooks inspired character debuts in Chicago, and it’s not Lulu.” Huffington Post, February 20, 2017.

getTV Premieres Rare Cary Grant film.” Huffington Post, May 4, 2016.

Lulu in New York: Pandora’s Box at Film Forum.” Huffington Post, March 16, 2016.

Live365 is Dead, Long Live RadioLulu.” Huffington Post, January 27, 2016.

Louise Brooks Celebration in San Francisco.” Huffington Post, November 13, 2015. 

Lulu-mania Sweeps New York City.” Huffington Post, November 9, 2015.

Danger and Desire: 6 Great Lulus.” Huffington Post, November 9, 2015.

Rick Geary’s New Comic, Louise Brooks: Detective.” Huffington Post, July 7, 2015.

Louise Brooks Returns to Detroit in Pandora’s Box.” Huffington Post, March 26, 2015.

Hobo Author Jim Tully Celebrated in New Documentary on PBS.” Huffington Post, February 11, 2015.

A Glastonbury First.” Huffington Post, June 24, 2014.
— published on Huffington Post UK

Natalie Merchant’s ‘Lulu’ Latest Pop Tribute to Silent Film Icon Louise Brooks.” Huffington Post, May 19, 2014.

Louise Brooks’ Star Shines Brighter Than Ever.” Huffington Post, November 4, 2013.

Pandora’s Box Plays Out Doors in Newcastle.” Huffington Post, August 28, 2012.
— published on Huffington Post UK

Louise Brooks Stars in Beggars of Life.” Huffington Post, July 30, 2012.

Louise Brooks Cover Girl and Secret Muse of the 20th Century.” Huffington Post, June 6, 2012.

Louise Brooks and Silent Film Star in Montreal.” Huffington Post, May 21, 2012.

Louise Brooks Celebrated in London.” Huffington Post, April 11, 2012.
— published on Huffington Post UK

Louise Brooks Is Lulu in Pandora’s Box.” Huffington Post, March 22, 2012.

Strange Silent Film Screens in Syracuse.” Huffington Post, March 15, 2012.

Beggars of Life with Louise Brooks Screens in New York.” Huffington Post, February 17, 2012.
— published in New York City section; tweeted about by Roger Ebert (see below)

Howard Hawks Retrospective in Berkeley.” Huffington Post, January 11, 2012.   

Jim Tully Revival: Hobo Author Back in Print.”Huffington Post, December 8, 2010.

Dear Stinkpot: Letters from Louise Brooks by Jan Wahl.” Huffington Post, October 13, 2010.

Louise Brooks Journals to be Revealed, and Perhaps Published.” Huffington Post, October 11, 2010.

A Lost Girl, a Fake Diary, and a Forgotten Author.” Huffington Post, August 26, 2010.

Rufus Talks Lulu Plays Denver.”Huffington Post, August 12, 2010.

Beggars of Life Screens Under the Stars.”Huffington Post, August 10, 2010.

‘I Am the Victim of Such a Lascivious Beauty’ Rufus Wainwright on Louise Brooks.”Huffington Post, August 5, 2010.

Loving Louise Brooks : A Student Film You Simply Must Watch.”Huffington Post, July 23, 2010.



Monday, November 4, 2013

Louise Brooks article on Huffington Post

I've posted a new article about Louise Brooks to the Huffington Post. It covers all the latest goings on. Read the article HERE. The slide show embedded in the article contains a very rare photograph of Louise Brooks that is also incredibly sexy. You must see to believe.


The contemporary film critic David Thomson once described Louise Brooks as "One of the most mysterious and potent figures in the history of the cinema . . .."

Earlier, the French critic Ado Kyrou said "Louise Brooks is the only woman who had the ability to transfigure no matter what film into a masterpiece. . . . Louise is the perfect apparition, the dream woman, the being without whom the cinema would be a poor thing. She is much more than a myth, she is a magical presence, a real phantom, the magnetism of the cinema."

His words were echoed by the German critic Lotte Eisner, who described Brooks as "An actress who needed no directing, but could move across the screen causing the work of art to be born by her mere presence."

Friday, June 8, 2012

Don't forget to vote

Don't forget to vote for your favorite images in the slideshow embedded in "Louise Brooks - Cover Girl and Secret Muse of the 20th Century" on Huffington Post. Here is another of my favorite book covers which I just couldn't include in the article.


Thursday, June 7, 2012

Louise Brooks - Cover Girl and Secret Muse of the 20th Century

Yesterday, I published a long article on the Huffington Post titled "Louise Brooks - Cover Girl and Secret Muse of the 20th Century." The article, along with its accompanying slideshow, explores Brooks' enduring cultural impact, especially in literature and publishing. Various works of fiction are surveyed which features the actress as a character (minor or major), or which were inspired by her, were based on her, or which reference or allude or give Brooks a literary shout-out. Prominant among them is Laura Moriarty's just released novel, The Chaperone (Riverhead), as well as Adolfo Bioy Casares' 1940 novella, The Invention of Morel (NYRB Classics), which is pictured below.


And pictured above is a screen grab of Saywer, the character from the TV show Lost, reading that very edition of The Invention of Morel with Brooks on the cover in an episode of the hit show.The connection between the novella, Louise Brooks, and Lost is further explained in the slideshow caption.

The slideshow which accompanies the article includes nearly three dozen images of Brooks on books. I titled the article "secret muse" because the actress' literary and cultural imapact is little known. Though ongoing. Indictitive of such is an image taken at the Village Voice Bookshop in Paris, France in 2011. Pictured below on the left holding my "Louise Brooks edition" of The Diary of a Lost Girl is the French translator of the Barry Paris biography (whose name escapes me at present, my apologies), myself in the middle, and on the right holding his Louise Brooks: Portrait of an Anti-Star is the French journalist and critic Roland Jaccard. Actually, that was my copy of Jaccard's book which, along with others, I carried to France so Jaccard could autograph it.


One of the other books I brought to France was one that I mentioned at the end of my Huffington Post piece. It is also one of my favorite Brooks' covers. It is Jaccards' Portrait d'une Flapper. The book was published in France, but has not been translated and published in the United States. Here is a scan of the cover.


I have gotten some really nice feed back about this article. Please do read it. AND, if you know of other literary references to Louise Brooks, please let me know. Either post something in the comments section below of email the Louise Brooks Society.
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