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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0cdf8-4da2-7279-9131-4d9b7ed5f346", "title": "“I paint the things I see and believe.” — Henry Ossawa Tanner", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=158938", "published_at": "2026-06-21T12:00:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-4da2-7279-9131-4d9b7fc0978e", "title": "“I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge.” — Paul Muldoon", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151083", "published_at": "2026-06-20T12:00:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8ccd-737a-9147-a37e37b5e2d7", "title": "“Some of the time, when you’re walking out there where the air is thin, you just hope you can walk back again.” — Gena Rowlands", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=137643", "published_at": "2026-06-19T12:00:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8cce-70e0-a746-e7db477694d0", "title": "“There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.” — James Weldon Johnson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=152483", "published_at": "2026-06-17T12:00:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8cce-70e0-a746-e7db47b0262e", "title": "Bloomsday past and present", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=187113", "published_at": "2026-06-16T13:00:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8cce-70e0-a746-e7db489cf4d3", "title": "“You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.” — William Faulkner", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=192460", "published_at": "2026-06-16T12:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8cce-70e0-a746-e7db4929c80a", "title": "Happy Birthday, Vilmos Zsigmond", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143961", "published_at": "2026-06-16T12:00:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8cce-70e0-a746-e7db49a04e31", "title": "“That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!” — Harry Nilsson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=170749", "published_at": "2026-06-15T12:30:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8cce-70e0-a746-e7db4a1df9eb", "title": "“I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.” — Waylon Jennings", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=158774", "published_at": "2026-06-15T12:00:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8cce-70e0-a746-e7db4a4afb92", "title": "“I’d love to play someone who is extremely charming, but first I’ll have to learn how to be charming.”” — Kate Lyn Sheil", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202130", "published_at": "2026-06-13T13:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8cce-70e0-a746-e7db4abd903b", "title": "“That is no country for old men.” — William Butler Yeats", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=68404", "published_at": "2026-06-13T12:00:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-8cce-70e0-a746-e7db4baddcca", "title": "Review: O Horizon (2026)", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205481", "published_at": "2026-06-12T13:48:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f3fc3ff1b5", "title": "“I am the most famous unknown of the century.” — Djuna Barnes", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=189088", "published_at": "2026-06-12T13:45:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f3fc737d5e", "title": "“People always think of me as Maria and I think of me as Maria all the time.” –Sonia Manzano", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=146144", "published_at": "2026-06-12T13:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f3fcbfcfef", "title": "“I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.” — Treat Williams", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=187172", "published_at": "2026-06-12T12:30:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f3fd54d72e", "title": "Happy Birthday, Chips Moman", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143946", "published_at": "2026-06-12T12:00:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f3fe1b89b7", "title": "Physical Media Booklet Essay: Being scholarly about movies that don’t exist", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205448", "published_at": "2026-06-11T23:56:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f3fe8d8d61", "title": "“Language most shows a man. Speak that I may see thee.” — Ben Jonson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151542", "published_at": "2026-06-11T12:30:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f3ff7e4397", "title": "“What good is a character who’s always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?” –Gene Wilder", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143936", "published_at": "2026-06-11T12:00:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f3ffb57def", "title": "“I couldn’t do no yodelin’, so I turned to howlin’ and it’s done me just fine.”– Howlin’ Wolf", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=158617", "published_at": "2026-06-10T13:00:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f4002d6c76", "title": "“If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.” — Judy Garland", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=158628", "published_at": "2026-06-10T12:30:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-baf5-7317-97f6-52f40042af28", "title": "Mike Doughty, if you’re out there …", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=170699", "published_at": "2026-06-10T12:00:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae29f6281b3", "title": "Happy Birthday to “Mr. Excitement”, Jackie Wilson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190509", "published_at": "2026-06-09T12:00:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae2a03550e1", "title": "“I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” — Joan Rivers", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=135547", "published_at": "2026-06-08T12:00:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae2a0663e47", "title": "“Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there.” — Prince", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143950", "published_at": "2026-06-07T13:30:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae2a0ebcdb2", "title": "“I dread to think about life without singing.” — Tom Jones", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=117839", "published_at": "2026-06-07T13:00:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae2a15747db", "title": "“I want them to think ‘He was a nice guy. He did pretty good and we loved him’.” — Dean Martin", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=68145", "published_at": "2026-06-07T12:30:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae2a15922a5", "title": "“I want to write poems that will be non-compromising.” — poet Gwendolyn Brooks", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=68124", "published_at": "2026-06-07T12:00:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae2a19c647f", "title": "“When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.” — Chantal Akerman", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=158467", "published_at": "2026-06-06T12:30:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae2a28cb6ac", "title": "For D-Day: John Ford’s They Were Expendable (1945)", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=147284", "published_at": "2026-06-06T12:00:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae2a34375f6", "title": "Review: Carolina Caroline (2026", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205375", "published_at": "2026-06-05T13:16:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-ec13-7037-80c2-bae2a3579a51", "title": "“Rock n’ roll! It’s the music of puberty.” — Suzi Quatro", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=186229", "published_at": "2026-06-03T12:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf009d245", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Twelfth Night: or, What You Will", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203756", "published_at": "2026-06-02T16:45:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf0be3c6a", "title": "“Literature is the written expression of revolt against expected things.” Happy Birthday to the least happy man ever, Thomas Hardy", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=150968", "published_at": "2026-06-02T12:00:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf1ba1f9b", "title": "“I’m not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.” – Marilyn Monroe", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=67931", "published_at": "2026-06-01T12:00:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf1c55c51", "title": "“[My ambition is to] give something to our literature which will be our own.” — Walt Whitman", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=150963", "published_at": "2026-05-31T12:00:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf26299bd", "title": "“I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.” — Agnès Varda", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=155370", "published_at": "2026-05-30T13:00:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf2bc3271", "title": "“I never made a message picture, and I hope I never do.” — Howard Hawks", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=195122", "published_at": "2026-05-30T12:30:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf2f55f0d", "title": "“If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.” — poet Countee Cullen", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=135304", "published_at": "2026-05-30T12:00:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf329c4fa", "title": "Reviews: Currents (2026)", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205267", "published_at": "2026-05-30T11:23:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf4185fc4", "title": "Reviews: Forge (2026)", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205263", "published_at": "2026-05-30T11:10:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-1ca0-703a-9b22-44ddf508148e", "title": "“Only the bad directors tell you how to read a line, how to define your character. The good ones let you do your job.” — Carroll Baker", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=145086", "published_at": "2026-05-28T13:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c897b55f1", "title": "“I never heard the term ‘rockabilly’ back then. Nobody did…When people asked what music we played, we were rock ’n’ rollers.” — Sonny Burgess", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=201300", "published_at": "2026-05-28T12:30:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c8a67e603", "title": "“I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.” — György Ligeti", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=158024", "published_at": "2026-05-28T12:00:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c8b363304", "title": "An Acting Lesson: John Wayne and the “Reality of the Doing”", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=175487", "published_at": "2026-05-26T12:00:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c8b5bdb23", "title": "“I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.” – Bob Dylan", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=67800", "published_at": "2026-05-24T12:00:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c8c33bcd6", "title": "Physical Media Booklet Essay", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205210", "published_at": "2026-05-23T15:05:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c8ce31058", "title": "“When I aim at praise, they say I bite.” — Alexander Pope", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=153512", "published_at": "2026-05-21T12:00:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c8dbc16e0", "title": "“Boredom is very important in life. It helps you feel when something is wrong.” — John Strasberg", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=183594", "published_at": "2026-05-20T12:00:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c8e7f81cb", "title": "The zine is here: Physical Media Booklet Essay", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205183", "published_at": "2026-05-20T01:29:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c8f32a0ea", "title": "“There’s nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.” — Joey Ramone", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=170714", "published_at": "2026-05-19T12:00:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-551d-71d4-b011-e57c90264876", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Hamlet", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203382", "published_at": "2026-05-18T13:00:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea34d2448", "title": "Happy birthday, Big Joe Turner, “Boss of the Blues”", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190487", "published_at": "2026-05-18T12:00:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea41a2680", "title": "“It’s an absolute miracle that I’m still around.” — Dennis Hopper", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=157758", "published_at": "2026-05-17T12:00:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea4fa5a8a", "title": "“I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don‘t apply to those who live on the fringe.” — Tamara de Lempicka", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=119404", "published_at": "2026-05-16T12:00:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea5f5eb20", "title": "“Manuscripts don’t burn.” — Mikhail Bulgakov", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=157683", "published_at": "2026-05-15T12:30:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea5fb12c1", "title": "For Joseph Cotten’s birthday: Gaslight: His Listening Is Active", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=47286", "published_at": "2026-05-15T12:00:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea66c7224", "title": "“That’s the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.” — Sofia Coppola", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162419", "published_at": "2026-05-14T12:30:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea6cb68b2", "title": "“I’m very concerned that we don’t make movies that are original anymore.” — Robert Zemeckis", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162352", "published_at": "2026-05-14T12:00:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea6d0bed3", "title": "“Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.” — Stevie Wonder", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=170688", "published_at": "2026-05-13T12:30:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea72a6184", "title": "“I was a sinister child, lazy and cynical.” — Eve Babitz", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=191784", "published_at": "2026-05-13T12:00:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-7734-71a5-a96f-1cfea780419c", "title": "Elvis takes New Orleans: talking King Creole on the Guide for the Film Fanatic podcast", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205085", "published_at": "2026-05-13T01:35:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71ae7f985", "title": "Miscast? Mayyyybe.", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205067", "published_at": "2026-05-12T15:38:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71b0d58cc", "title": "“I don’t care how afraid I may be inside — I do what I think I should.” — Katharine Hepburn", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=137216", "published_at": "2026-05-12T13:30:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71b819f4a", "title": "“I think a fear of portraying something negatively ends up creating more stereotypes.” — Sophia Takal", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162349", "published_at": "2026-05-12T13:00:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71c807693", "title": "“My dear child, I’m sure we shall be allowed to laugh in Heaven!” — Edward Lear", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=37652", "published_at": "2026-05-12T12:30:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71cc5879d", "title": "“I know that for myself, what is deeper than I understand is often the most pertinent to me and the most lasting.” — Lorine Niedecker", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151024", "published_at": "2026-05-12T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71d0e82e9", "title": "“If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.” — Natasha Richardson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=10088", "published_at": "2026-05-11T12:00:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71d954fc1", "title": "“Maybe it’s a generational thing but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I wanted to be the best.” — Judith Jamison", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=201681", "published_at": "2026-05-10T12:00:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71e2223b6", "title": "“Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.” — Austin Clarke", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151014", "published_at": "2026-05-09T12:30:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71ec8b296", "title": "“As long as politics is this confused and evil, turning away from it would be cowardly.” — 20th century hero Sophie Scholl", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=157260", "published_at": "2026-05-09T12:00:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-956f-7373-b109-99b71f894647", "title": "“He sold his soul to the devil to get to play like that.” – Mississippi bluesman Son House on Robert Johnson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=137166", "published_at": "2026-05-08T13:00:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-b5d3-7390-a25d-92e61df3563b", "title": "“You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude.” — Don Rickles", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=135537", "published_at": "2026-05-08T12:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-b5d3-7390-a25d-92e61e49b41d", "title": "“A lot of people try to equate me with guys like Frankie Avalon and Fabian, but in the old days I sold a lot of records over a period of time, and you can’t sustain that by being just another pretty face.” — Ricky Nelson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=193854", "published_at": "2026-05-08T12:00:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf9-b5d3-7390-a25d-92e61e64a15d", "title": "“You are not acting so much as being. 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2026

“I paint the things I see and believe.” — Henry Ossawa Tanneroriginal ↗
21 Jun 2026
“I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge.” — Paul Muldoonoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2026
“Some of the time, when you’re walking out there where the air is thin, you just hope you can walk back again.” — Gena Rowlandsoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2026
“There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.” — James Weldon Johnsonoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2026
Bloomsday past and presentoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
“You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.” — William Faulkneroriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
Happy Birthday, Vilmos Zsigmondoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
“That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!” — Harry Nilssonoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
“I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.” — Waylon Jenningsoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
“I’d love to play someone who is extremely charming, but first I’ll have to learn how to be charming.”” — Kate Lyn Sheiloriginal ↗
13 Jun 2026
“That is no country for old men.” — William Butler Yeatsoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2026
Review: O Horizon (2026)original ↗
12 Jun 2026
“I am the most famous unknown of the century.” — Djuna Barnesoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2026
“People always think of me as Maria and I think of me as Maria all the time.” –Sonia Manzanooriginal ↗
12 Jun 2026
“I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.” — Treat Williamsoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2026
Happy Birthday, Chips Momanoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2026
Physical Media Booklet Essay: Being scholarly about movies that don’t existoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
“Language most shows a man. Speak that I may see thee.” — Ben Jonsonoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
“What good is a character who’s always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?” –Gene Wilderoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
“I couldn’t do no yodelin’, so I turned to howlin’ and it’s done me just fine.”– Howlin’ Wolforiginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
“If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.” — Judy Garlandoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
Mike Doughty, if you’re out there …original ↗
10 Jun 2026
Happy Birthday to “Mr. Excitement”, Jackie Wilsonoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
“I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” — Joan Riversoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
“Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there.” — Princeoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2026
“I dread to think about life without singing.” — Tom Jonesoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2026
“I want them to think ‘He was a nice guy. He did pretty good and we loved him’.” — Dean Martinoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2026
“I want to write poems that will be non-compromising.” — poet Gwendolyn Brooksoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2026
“When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.” — Chantal Akermanoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
For D-Day: John Ford’s They Were Expendable (1945)original ↗
6 Jun 2026
Review: Carolina Caroline (2026original ↗
5 Jun 2026
“Rock n’ roll! It’s the music of puberty.” — Suzi Quatrooriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Twelfth Night: or, What You Willoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
“Literature is the written expression of revolt against expected things.” Happy Birthday to the least happy man ever, Thomas Hardyoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
“I’m not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.” – Marilyn Monroeoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026
“[My ambition is to] give something to our literature which will be our own.” — Walt Whitmanoriginal ↗
31 May 2026
“I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.” — Agnès Vardaoriginal ↗
30 May 2026
“I never made a message picture, and I hope I never do.” — Howard Hawksoriginal ↗
30 May 2026
“If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.” — poet Countee Cullenoriginal ↗
30 May 2026
Reviews: Currents (2026)original ↗
30 May 2026
Reviews: Forge (2026)original ↗
30 May 2026
“Only the bad directors tell you how to read a line, how to define your character. The good ones let you do your job.” — Carroll Bakeroriginal ↗
28 May 2026
“I never heard the term ‘rockabilly’ back then. Nobody did…When people asked what music we played, we were rock ’n’ rollers.” — Sonny Burgessoriginal ↗
28 May 2026
“I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.” — György Ligetioriginal ↗
28 May 2026
An Acting Lesson: John Wayne and the “Reality of the Doing”original ↗
26 May 2026
“I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.” – Bob Dylanoriginal ↗
24 May 2026
Physical Media Booklet Essayoriginal ↗
23 May 2026
“When I aim at praise, they say I bite.” — Alexander Popeoriginal ↗
21 May 2026
“Boredom is very important in life. It helps you feel when something is wrong.” — John Strasbergoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
The zine is here: Physical Media Booklet Essayoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
“There’s nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.” — Joey Ramoneoriginal ↗
19 May 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Hamletoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
Happy birthday, Big Joe Turner, “Boss of the Blues”original ↗
18 May 2026
“It’s an absolute miracle that I’m still around.” — Dennis Hopperoriginal ↗
17 May 2026
“I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don‘t apply to those who live on the fringe.” — Tamara de Lempickaoriginal ↗
16 May 2026
“Manuscripts don’t burn.” — Mikhail Bulgakovoriginal ↗
15 May 2026
For Joseph Cotten’s birthday: Gaslight: His Listening Is Activeoriginal ↗
15 May 2026
“That’s the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.” — Sofia Coppolaoriginal ↗
14 May 2026
“I’m very concerned that we don’t make movies that are original anymore.” — Robert Zemeckisoriginal ↗
14 May 2026
“Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.” — Stevie Wonderoriginal ↗
13 May 2026
“I was a sinister child, lazy and cynical.” — Eve Babitzoriginal ↗
13 May 2026
Elvis takes New Orleans: talking King Creole on the Guide for the Film Fanatic podcastoriginal ↗
13 May 2026
Miscast? Mayyyybe.original ↗
12 May 2026
“I don’t care how afraid I may be inside — I do what I think I should.” — Katharine Hepburnoriginal ↗
12 May 2026
“I think a fear of portraying something negatively ends up creating more stereotypes.” — Sophia Takaloriginal ↗
12 May 2026
“My dear child, I’m sure we shall be allowed to laugh in Heaven!” — Edward Learoriginal ↗
12 May 2026
“I know that for myself, what is deeper than I understand is often the most pertinent to me and the most lasting.” — Lorine Niedeckeroriginal ↗
12 May 2026
“If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.” — Natasha Richardsonoriginal ↗
11 May 2026
“Maybe it’s a generational thing but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I wanted to be the best.” — Judith Jamisonoriginal ↗
10 May 2026
“Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.” — Austin Clarkeoriginal ↗
9 May 2026
“As long as politics is this confused and evil, turning away from it would be cowardly.” — 20th century hero Sophie Scholloriginal ↗
9 May 2026
“He sold his soul to the devil to get to play like that.” – Mississippi bluesman Son House on Robert Johnsonoriginal ↗
8 May 2026
“You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude.” — Don Ricklesoriginal ↗
8 May 2026
“A lot of people try to equate me with guys like Frankie Avalon and Fabian, but in the old days I sold a lot of records over a period of time, and you can’t sustain that by being just another pretty face.” — Ricky Nelsonoriginal ↗
8 May 2026
“You are not acting so much as being. The result is realism.” — Gary Cooperoriginal ↗
7 May 2026
“I started at the top and worked my way down.” — Orson Wellesoriginal ↗
6 May 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: As You Like Itoriginal ↗
5 May 2026
“Is there any virtue, for literature, for poetry, in the simple continuity of a tradition? I believe there is not.” — Thomas Kinsellaoriginal ↗
4 May 2026
“I’ve always had everything I wanted, and I never wanted a great deal. ” — Aline MacMahonoriginal ↗
3 May 2026
“I was never totally involved in movies. I was making someone else’s dream come true. Not mine.” — Mary Astororiginal ↗
3 May 2026
“Fear and the absence of hatred may go well together.” — Niccolò Machiavellioriginal ↗
3 May 2026
“I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use.” — James Brownoriginal ↗
3 May 2026
“It’s the sexiest toughest chord change in all of rock ‘n roll.” – Steven Van Zandt on “Rumble.” Happy Birthday, Link Wrayoriginal ↗
2 May 2026
“I still get a chill when I sing, ‘You Don’t Own Me.’ I find some new feeling in it every time.” –Lesley Goreoriginal ↗
2 May 2026
“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.” — Lars von Trieroriginal ↗
30 Apr 2026
“A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You’ve defined my entire life for me on the screen.” –Jill Clayburghoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2026
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” — Tom Lehreroriginal ↗
29 Apr 2026
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelsonoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2026
It’s (not) a beautiful day in the neighborhood …original ↗
28 Apr 2026
“I don’t cook and I don’t care.” — Ann-Margretoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Julius Caesaroriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
“When April’s here and meadows wide …” — Jessie Redmon Fausetoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
“I have been done in by both men and women. I don’t have any preference.” — Anita Loosoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2026
“For a long time, I was a caretaker — until finally I wised up.” — Patricia Bosworthoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2026
“I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.” — Barbra Streisandoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Henry Voriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
“I would rather take a photograph than be one.” — Lee Milleroriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, / Hath put a spirit of youth in everything …original ↗
23 Apr 2026
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” — Louise Glückoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026
“True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.” — John Watersoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026
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