Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Google blog search

Today, Google launched a blog search engine. Now, you can search out and find what other bloggers have to say about Louise Brooks - and other topics of interest. There are other blog search engines out there, and I have blogged about them in the past. Google's may be the best yet. Google's blog search engine can be found at http://blogsearch.google.com/   Happy hunting!

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Golden images

Lately, I've been reading Golden Images: 41 Essays on Silent Film Stars by Eve Golden. The book features short profiles of actors and actresses - some well known (Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Rudolph Valentino) and some not so well known (Gladys Brockwell, May Irwin, Ormer Locklear). I read about film stars I really didn't know much about - like Jeanne Eagels, Marie Prevost, Nita Naldi, Esther Ralston, and Olive Thomas. Eve Golden has a graceful writing style. I liked the book. (Some time earlier, I had read Golden's excellent Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara, and enjoyed that as well.)

Friday, September 9, 2005

Arabic-language newspaper article

My friend Gianluca also sent me a link to a recent Arabic-language newspaper article which mentions Louise Brooks. It can be found at www.sharghnewspaper.com/840516/html/cinema.htm  Does anyone know enough Arabic to read this and relay a sense of what it discusses?

Thursday, September 8, 2005

Japanese Anime

Today, my Italian friend Gianluca sent me an email about a Japanese Anime artist. According to this page on the Anime News Network, "Rumiko Takahashi's design for Nabiki Tendo is patterned after silent film actress Louise Brooks (1906-1985)." It is amazing how many comics, cartoons, graphic novels and anime Louise Brooks has inspired. Thank you Gianluca.

Monday, September 5, 2005

Garbo article by Mick LaSalle

There is an article about Greta Garbo by Mick LaSalle (author of Complicated Women and Dangerous Men - two fine books on pre-code Hollywood) in today's San Francisco Chronicle. And don't forget, Kevin Brownlow's new documentary on Garbo debuts tomorrow night on TCM. I can't wait!

Thursday, September 1, 2005

LBS website

Due to a long planned overhaul of the website, large portions of the Louise Brooks Society are off-line. If all goes according to plan, pages and sections of the site will be brought back in the course of the next few weeks. The LBS homepage will remain on-line. Also still available is the message board, and a newly revised page of links, Lulu in Cyberspace. (Check it out.) The LBS gift shop at Cafepress.com, as well as Radio Lulu, and Louise Brooks Studies, are all still active. This blog - the LBS at LJ - will also continue during the site overhaul. I hope to get a lot of work done on the site over the Labor Day weekend. Check back throughout September for updates.
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