Sitemap - 2008 - Self-Styled Siren

Christmas Eve with the Talmadge Girls

Anecdote of the Week: "Trust Me--I'm an Actor," Plus Links

Van Johnson, 1916-2008

The Hardest Meme Ever

Screwball Constance: Topper and Merrily We Live

Behind the Blog, Anecdote, Links and an All-Points Borzage Bulletin

The Bennett Sisters: Constance

Ten Things I Love About Old Movies

The Alphabet Meme

Nov. 4, 2008: The Siren's Blue Yodel

Anecdote of the Week: Post-Halloween Horror

Unquote, Please

Anecdote and Links of the Week

The Kay Francis Recap

Red Dawn (1984)

Newcritics Wednesday Night at the Movies: Serpico and 25th Hour

Newcritics Wednesday Night at the Movies: Desperately Seeking Susan

Newcritics Wednesday Night at the Movies: Desperately Seeking Susan

Paul Newman, 1925-2008

Wednesday Night at the Movies: The Apartment

The "12 I Haven't Seen, So Use Them Up" Challenge

Sunday Stroll Through the Blogs

New York City of the Mind: Sweet Smell of Success Open Thread at Newcritics

Bigger Than Life on Fox Movie Channel Sept. 12

Anita Page, 1910-2008

New York City of the Mind: The Series at Newcritics

Seeing Red on The Red Shoes

Movies About Movies Blogathon: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Esther Williams: A Brief Belated Happy Birthday

Kay Francis on TCM in September

Anecdote of the Week: Barrymore's Blackboard

Dead Reckoning (1947)

Anecdote of the Week: Ingrid Also Loved Charles

Fanny (1961)

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

Olympics Warmup: Jim Thorpe, All-American

Le Crime de DVD: A cri de coeur from the Siren

Anecdote of the Week: Four Times as Big, and Paint It Pink

Frenchman's Creek (1944)

New York City of the Mind

The Strangest Damn Gang You Ever Heard Of

Anecdote of the Week

Talk to the Animals Wednesday Night and Other Coming Attractions

"Results like these do not belong on the resume of a Supreme Being."

In the Heat of the Night at Newcritics (updated)

Cyd Charisse, 1921-2008

Anecdote of the Week

The Titanic in Three Movies

May Is Exam Month

I Do Not Like Them, Sam-I-Am

Is this a dance which I see before me? Or, Dance as Soliloquy

This Week's Odds and Ends

Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs: A Brief Defense of Melodrama

John and Hedy

Charlton Heston, 1923-2008

Three Strangers (1946)

Jules Dassin, 1911-2008

Joan bis: A Woman's Face

Happy Birthday, Joan

Credit Where Credits Are Due

In Which the Siren Reads an Anecdote That Ties Up All of the Past Two Weeks

The Letter (1940)

"They Lose Their Noses."

Brief Oscar Backlash

More Mary, Oscars and the Burt-a-Thon

Mary Astor Invented Your Makeup

The Bell Tolls for Vera Zorina

"A Perfect Gentleman Through It All": Roy Scheider, 1932 -2008

Best and Worst of the Best Actor Oscars

Canada Lee: A Brief Tribute

Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)

Wild Boys of the Road (1933)

Something to Sing About (1937)

Code Nostalgia