Emily Belsey

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Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

- Anne de Lenclos

Archive for March, 2009

Grand Hotel

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Berlin’s plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where, in the words of Dr. Otternschlag, “people come, people go. Nothing ever happens.”
The doctor is usually drunk, so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern (John Barrymore) is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya’s (Greta Garbo) pearls. He ends up stealing her heart [...]

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ER

Friday, March 13th, 2009

George Clooney returned to ER tonight. He filmed the episode a few weeks ago, and things were a little crazy on the lot while everyone rushed around denying that he was here yet diverting tours around the action.  Even the call sheets for the day had code names for Julianna Margulies and Clooney.  Guest star [...]

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Cimarron

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Cimarron, the first Western to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (and until Dances With Wolves in 1990, the only one), is the story of Sabra Cravat (Irene Dunne) and the westward expansion of the United States at the turn of the 18th century.
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless [...]

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