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He is approaching 75, but Howard Hawks still fits the old Ben Hecht description of him as ‘a drawling fashion plate, apurr with melodrama.’
On the stage of the Carnegie Theater for the Chicago Film Festival last November, a month before the premiere of his Rio Lobo, he was the image of the consummate professional. He was wearing rimless dark glasses, and kept them on even when the audience, through an electrician’s error, was left in darkness. As he sat there in the spotlight, asking for light, it seemed oddly appropriate – recalling Robin Wood’s words about ‘the eternal darkness… against which the Hawksian stoicism shines.’
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Before he hit Hollywood, he used the woodworking skills he acquired from his old man to first build sets and scenery for local theaters in Chicago, and later, after moving to Los Angeles, to construct decks and cabins in between scoring pre-Swanson TV parts. In 2001, Offerman opened his eponymous woodshop, where today, he still fashions hand-crafted items like fine furniture, canoes, and ukuleles for fun. (Check out his wares here.)
There’s one more thing that links both men for life: a fanatical love of Lagavulin, a single malt whisky named for the tiny village in which it’s distilled on the Isle of Islay, Scotland. Swanson frequently professed his adoration for the Scotch on
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Hungary s Mari Tör? csik, Cannes Best Actress Winner, Dies at 85
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Mari Törőcsik, one of Hungary’s leading actors, died on Friday, at the age of 85, in Budapest after a long illness. She won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and appeared in two Oscar nominated films.
Törőcsik’s first international appearance was in 1956 at Cannes, where she starred in Zoltán Fábri’s Palme d’Or competitor “Körhinta” (Merry-Go-Round), playing a country girl in love with a peasant boy, battling against the opposition of her father to the relationship.
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L to R: Moxie, Bombay Rose, and Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell (all images courtesy of Netflix)
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Spring is around the corner, and so are a few long-awaited Netflix films and shows to hopefully inspired a much more cheerful feeling all-around. And what better way to mark full year in quarantine than with some shiny new distractions?
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Moxie, Amy Poehler’s latest directorial project for the streamer. Ushering in the riot grrrl ethos, this adaptation of Jennifer Mathieu’s novel follows high schooler Vivian Carter, who takes on the systemic sexism at her school and starts a feminist revolution via an anonymously distributed zine. If that’s not your thing, you can dip into some music history with the upcoming doc