Cary Grant, Angelina Jolie, Sean Connery, Marlene Dietrich samazed!

Last year, in December, I launched the ’60Signers for the 60th Anniversary’ initiative, and for almost two months, I have been busy meeting with every single signer who accepted to support this initiative (and they are 60!). I will come back to you with some new information about it soon, but if I mention the initiative in this post, it is ... More

Rosemary Clooney: time doesn’t go by…

First time I heard Hugh ‘Peanuts’ Whalum was a year ago, autumn 2006. I already shared with you what I felt when I first heard him sing: ‘I’ll Close My Eyes’ (When I heard Hugh “Peanuts” Whalum, I closed my eyes…), and I mentioned several other (mostly jazz) singers I use to listen to. Among them are Dinah Washington, ... More

Davis, Flynn, Dietrich… They did it their way

The period between the Great Depression and World War II, from the 1920s through the late 1940s, is known as Hollywood’s Golden Age. I’m a huge fan of films from the 1930s and ’40s—the era when Bette Davis captivated audiences as Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage (1934), battled with Jack Warner, and worked with Cary Grant to run the Hollywood ... More