Sitemap - 2009 - Self-Styled Siren
The Luck of Luise; Or, We Should All Be So Cursed
Life with Zsa Zsa, Or the Importance of Closet Space
The Great Garrick (1937) and It's Love I'm After (1937)
"It may only be four walls and a couple of nail kegs, but it will always be home to me."
Anecdote of the Week: An Admirable Vocabulary
Shadows of Russia: TCM, Lou Lumenick and the Siren
Anecdote of the Week: Joan and the One Man
Ten Melos the Siren Would Watch Instead of "Mad Men"
"They told me of your victories, but not of the price you paid."
Ten Books From a Cinephile's Past: The Final Chapter
Fred Astaire: One for My Baby (from The Sky's the Limit)
10 Books From a Cinephile's Past: City of Nets
Anecdote of the Week: Myrna Was the Lady in Red
10 Books From a Cinephile's Past: From Reverence to Rape
10 Books From a Cinephile's Past (Part 1)
The Verdict (1946), With Thoughts on the Eternal Nature of Greenstreet & Lorre
The Siren Has Wondered About This a Long Time.
Aside: William Wellman on Actors' Psyches
Mae Clarke in The Public Enemy
Anecdote of the Week: "Oh God, This Is a Dirty Picture"
Foreign Film Resolution, Weeks 11-14
Anecdote of the Week: Not a Good Experience, but Not a Bad Picture
Images to Infuriate Delacroix: Jack Cardiff, 1914-2009
Surreal Sanders: The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
10 Favorite Heretofore Unmentioned Movie Characters
By Popular Demand, All I Owe Ioway
George and Bernard: Notes on a Scandal
Foreign Film Resolution, Cont. (Weeks 4-7)
George Sanders: "Caddishness of Homeric Proportions"
George Sanders on the Kind of Thing to Give the Public
"I Don't Know What Russia Is Like": Mission to Moscow (1943)
Comments I Made at Sites You Don't Read, With Added Borzage Link Bonus
Three Brief, Utterly Unrelated Asides
The Dardos, and Other Ramblings from the Far End of the Subway Car
"I'll be beautiful again when I'll be well again, won't I?"