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Sunday, February 27, 2005

Torrent

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Just returned from today's Garbo Festival, where I saw  Torrent  (1926), which was Garbo's first American film. It co-starred Ricar...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Exploring a Library of Congress collection

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               The Library of Congress has an extraordinary  collection of images available on-line through its  Prints and Photographs  di...
Friday, February 25, 2005

Garbo Festival

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Just back from the opening night of the Garbo Festival at San Francisco's Balboa Theater. I saw  Queen Christina , which I enjoyed a gr...
Thursday, February 24, 2005

Maria Tatar - myth, mayhem, and murder

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A professor of German at Harvard University, Maria Tatar is also a scholar and writer whose unusual books include  Spellbound: Studies on M...
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Lulu a Hollywood

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Today, a book I had purchased over the internet arrived in the mail . . . . I received a copy of  Lulu a Hollywood , by Louise Brooks. This...
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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The LBS marks the passing of the writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929 - 2005). This Cuban-born novelist, short-story writer, essayist, cr...
Sunday, February 20, 2005

Greta Garbo Festival

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There is a Greta Garbo festival taking place at the  Balboa Theater  in San Francisco. T o celebrate what would have been the actress' ...
Saturday, February 19, 2005

The Milestone Collection: Silent Shakespeare

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Tonight, I watched  The Milestone Collection: Silent Shakespeare . This disc features seven short films based on plays by William Shakespea...