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That’s something I think I could do very well.” — Edie Sedgwick", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=194559", "published_at": "2026-04-20T13:00:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-32f5-715a-8dd2-f038e11fa3f6", "title": "“The only cause I espouse is man’s right to find his own centre, stand firm, speak out, then be kind.” — Michael Davitt, “Dissenter”", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151077", "published_at": "2026-04-20T12:00:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-32f5-715a-8dd2-f038e211d307", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Much Ado About Nothing", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=204551", "published_at": "2026-04-18T13:00:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-32f5-715a-8dd2-f038e308ec20", "title": "“I don’t represent anything.” — Liz Phair", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=168021", "published_at": "2026-04-17T13:00:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-32f5-715a-8dd2-f038e37a34a3", "title": "“I don’t really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life – to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.” — William Holden", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162279", "published_at": "2026-04-17T12:30:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-32f5-715a-8dd2-f038e3ef4621", "title": "“Some syllables are swords.” — Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151544", "published_at": "2026-04-17T12:00:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-32f5-715a-8dd2-f038e4201f3d", "title": "“To me, music is no joke and it’s not for sale.” — Ian MacKaye", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=170642", "published_at": "2026-04-16T12:30:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-32f5-715a-8dd2-f038e49c3d2a", "title": "“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.” — Charlie Chaplin", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=128040", "published_at": "2026-04-16T12:00:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-32f5-715a-8dd2-f038e55b7285", "title": "“As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.” — Reed Morano", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=167755", "published_at": "2026-04-15T12:00:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d2f98c0f", "title": "“Even though I’m writing about very dark material, it still feels like an escape hatch.” — Olivia Laing", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=158118", "published_at": "2026-04-14T12:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d3e87c7e", "title": "“It’s just one of the mysteries of filmmaking that sometimes you do something that you don’t even think it’s important, then it turns out to be.” — Lili Horvát", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190335", "published_at": "2026-04-13T13:00:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d3f57a09", "title": "“Ballet taught me to stay close to style and tone. Literature taught me to be concerned about the moral life.” — Joan Acocella", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=191348", "published_at": "2026-04-13T12:30:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d448a96d", "title": "“I trust contrariness. I simply rebelled at being commanded.” — Seamus Heaney", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143980", "published_at": "2026-04-13T12:00:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d50c89a9", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Merry Wives of Windsor", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203368", "published_at": "2026-04-12T13:00:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d56bbc3c", "title": "“I don’t think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.” — Tom Noonan", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=157743", "published_at": "2026-04-12T12:30:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d5da1c3c", "title": "“If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.” — Beverly Cleary", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=168106", "published_at": "2026-04-12T12:00:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d61301e0", "title": "“For I am of the seed of the WELCH WOMAN and speak the truth from my heart.” — Christopher Smart", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=53364", "published_at": "2026-04-11T12:00:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d6532473", "title": "Review: Hamlet (2026)", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=204513", "published_at": "2026-04-10T15:17:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-5b89-72be-9435-29d7d71304dc", "title": "“Those evils that inflame the imagination and make the heart sick, ought not to leave the head cool.” — William Hazlitt", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=201373", "published_at": "2026-04-10T12:00:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fdd732909", "title": "“I prefer a national film to an international film.” — Jean-Paul Belmondo", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=186336", "published_at": "2026-04-09T13:00:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fdd78b49d", "title": "“Sometimes I can sing it when I can’t say it.” — Carl Perkins", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190521", "published_at": "2026-04-09T12:30:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fdd86346a", "title": "“I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.” — Kristen Stewart", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162343", "published_at": "2026-04-09T12:00:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fde7d2e46", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Henry IV, Part 2", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203753", "published_at": "2026-04-08T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fdebb797a", "title": "“I never was good at sightseeing yet it must be done.” — William Wordsworth", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151218", "published_at": "2026-04-07T12:00:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fdfaa8628", "title": "“It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it’s true; I was raised in a freight car.” — Merle Haggard", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=81766", "published_at": "2026-04-06T12:00:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fe0755197", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Henry IV, Part 1", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203386", "published_at": "2026-04-05T13:00:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fe0872a88", "title": "“There won’t be another Bette Davis. There can’t be.” Mitchell and I discuss Bette Davis", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=137111", "published_at": "2026-04-05T12:30:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fe0fd8a3f", "title": "“I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.” — Bette Davis", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=116091", "published_at": "2026-04-05T12:00:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-79f5-7219-8fb7-335fe19afba0", "title": "In the Criterion Closet", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=204309", "published_at": "2026-04-04T20:58:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa61-734f-8707-a9c7924c2001", "title": "In Memory of Roger Ebert: Michael, Roger & Me", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=116043", "published_at": "2026-04-04T12:00:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa62-709b-92cf-080a08b9df45", "title": "Review: Living the Land (2026)", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=204235", "published_at": "2026-04-03T13:22:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa62-709b-92cf-080a09133d86", "title": "“The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.” — Marlon Brando", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=66792", "published_at": "2026-04-03T12:30:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa62-709b-92cf-080a095cc65c", "title": "“I never retired.” — Doris Day", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=135531", "published_at": "2026-04-03T12:00:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa62-709b-92cf-080a09b53570", "title": "“The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience’s misconceptions.” — Josephine Decker", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=168774", "published_at": "2026-04-02T12:00:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa62-709b-92cf-080a0a39de0e", "title": "March 2026 Snapshots", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=204062", "published_at": "2026-04-01T12:30:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa62-709b-92cf-080a0adf0f1d", "title": "“Here’s to better times ahead and saying goodbye to bombs and bullets once and for all.” — Lyra McKee", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=158246", "published_at": "2026-03-31T12:30:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa62-709b-92cf-080a0b44c631", "title": "“Art indeed is long, but life is short.” — Metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=27143", "published_at": "2026-03-31T12:00:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa62-709b-92cf-080a0c4019e7", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Merchant of Venice", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203389", "published_at": "2026-03-30T13:00:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-aa62-709b-92cf-080a0d2b9ca1", "title": "“That’s the Irish People all over – they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.” — Seán O’Casey, Shadow of a Gunman", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=66685", "published_at": "2026-03-30T12:00:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c36ae49bf", "title": "Coming soon …", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=204093", "published_at": "2026-03-28T12:33:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c37454eca", "title": "It’s the birthday of “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Forget”: Iris Chang", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=156381", "published_at": "2026-03-28T12:00:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c37551b30", "title": "Review: Holy Days (2026)", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=204086", "published_at": "2026-03-27T16:19:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c37d2631a", "title": "“I heard Ruth Brown, and I just found my kind of music,” — Janis Martin", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=174771", "published_at": "2026-03-27T13:00:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c38a44e93", "title": "“As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.” — Dubravka Ugrešić", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=189019", "published_at": "2026-03-27T12:30:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c39669646", "title": "“Attention equals Life.” — Frank O’Hara", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=118364", "published_at": "2026-03-27T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c39dde9df", "title": "“Make voyages! — Attempt them! — there’s nothing else …” — Tennessee Williams", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=66317", "published_at": "2026-03-26T13:30:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c3a165fc5", "title": "“Too many poets delude themselves by thinking the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous, and must be left in.” — Robert Frost", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=150982", "published_at": "2026-03-26T13:00:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c3a80a0ef", "title": "“Memphis amateurs are the world’s professionals.” — Rufus Thomas", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=191001", "published_at": "2026-03-26T12:30:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-c86f-70c9-ad03-601c3ad2a1a2", "title": "“I did not begin to write poetry in earnest until the really emotional part of my life was over.” — poet A.E. 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Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!” — Jerry Reed", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190931", "published_at": "2026-03-20T13:00:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-ffc0-738b-9604-5347f6317335", "title": "“Can’t no man play like me.” — Sister Rosetta Tharpe", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=172813", "published_at": "2026-03-20T12:30:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-ffc0-738b-9604-5347f6f452cf", "title": "“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.” — Henrik Ibsen", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=66105", "published_at": "2026-03-20T12:00:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-ffc0-738b-9604-5347f7d69e56", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Richard II", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203786", "published_at": "2026-03-18T12:30:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-ffc0-738b-9604-5347f89bb993", "title": "“In the beginning I never found poems in the American literary pantheon about the things I knew best. I decided that I would at least do my part and try to put some of those poems in there.” — Rhode Island’s first poet laureate, Michael Harper", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=152968", "published_at": "2026-03-18T12:00:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-ffc0-738b-9604-5347f92b7754", "title": "Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=115117", "published_at": "2026-03-17T13:00:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-ffc0-738b-9604-5347f95b52ff", "title": "“If it hadn’t been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.” — Kurt Russell", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162355", "published_at": "2026-03-17T12:30:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-ffc0-738b-9604-5347f9c0a780", "title": "“A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?” — Rudolf Nureyev", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=115122", "published_at": "2026-03-17T12:00:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfa-ffc0-738b-9604-5347fa35a3e9", "title": "“The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character – that is the purpose of films and theatre.” — Isabelle Huppert", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162410", "published_at": "2026-03-16T12:00:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-2360-72ca-8099-081de58ea3db", "title": "On grief: Eric Church and Anderson Cooper", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203897", "published_at": "2026-03-15T02:24:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-2360-72ca-8099-081de670fbb5", "title": "“Life was bitter and I was not. All around me was poverty and sordidness but I refused to see it that way. 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“After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!” — Bettie Pageoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.” — Charlotte Brontëoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2026
“Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.” — Charles Grodinoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2026
“I do love Alice in Wonderland though. That’s something I think I could do very well.” — Edie Sedgwickoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2026
“The only cause I espouse is man’s right to find his own centre, stand firm, speak out, then be kind.” — Michael Davitt, “Dissenter”original ↗
20 Apr 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Much Ado About Nothingoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2026
“I don’t represent anything.” — Liz Phairoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2026
“I don’t really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life – to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.” — William Holdenoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2026
“Some syllables are swords.” — Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughanoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2026
“To me, music is no joke and it’s not for sale.” — Ian MacKayeoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2026
“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.” — Charlie Chaplinoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2026
“As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.” — Reed Moranooriginal ↗
15 Apr 2026
“Even though I’m writing about very dark material, it still feels like an escape hatch.” — Olivia Laingoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2026
“It’s just one of the mysteries of filmmaking that sometimes you do something that you don’t even think it’s important, then it turns out to be.” — Lili Horvátoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
“Ballet taught me to stay close to style and tone. Literature taught me to be concerned about the moral life.” — Joan Acocellaoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
“I trust contrariness. I simply rebelled at being commanded.” — Seamus Heaneyoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Merry Wives of Windsororiginal ↗
12 Apr 2026
“I don’t think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.” — Tom Noonanoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2026
“If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.” — Beverly Clearyoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2026
“For I am of the seed of the WELCH WOMAN and speak the truth from my heart.” — Christopher Smartoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2026
Review: Hamlet (2026)original ↗
10 Apr 2026
“Those evils that inflame the imagination and make the heart sick, ought not to leave the head cool.” — William Hazlittoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2026
“I prefer a national film to an international film.” — Jean-Paul Belmondooriginal ↗
9 Apr 2026
“Sometimes I can sing it when I can’t say it.” — Carl Perkinsoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2026
“I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.” — Kristen Stewartoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Henry IV, Part 2original ↗
8 Apr 2026
“I never was good at sightseeing yet it must be done.” — William Wordsworthoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2026
“It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it’s true; I was raised in a freight car.” — Merle Haggardoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Henry IV, Part 1original ↗
5 Apr 2026
“There won’t be another Bette Davis. There can’t be.” Mitchell and I discuss Bette Davisoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2026
“I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.” — Bette Davisoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2026
In the Criterion Closetoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2026
In Memory of Roger Ebert: Michael, Roger & Meoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2026
Review: Living the Land (2026)original ↗
3 Apr 2026
“The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.” — Marlon Brandooriginal ↗
3 Apr 2026
“I never retired.” — Doris Dayoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2026
“The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience’s misconceptions.” — Josephine Deckeroriginal ↗
2 Apr 2026
March 2026 Snapshotsoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2026
“Here’s to better times ahead and saying goodbye to bombs and bullets once and for all.” — Lyra McKeeoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2026
“Art indeed is long, but life is short.” — Metaphysical poet Andrew Marvelloriginal ↗
31 Mar 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Merchant of Veniceoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
“That’s the Irish People all over – they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.” — Seán O’Casey, Shadow of a Gunmanoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
Coming soon …original ↗
28 Mar 2026
It’s the birthday of “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Forget”: Iris Changoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2026
Review: Holy Days (2026)original ↗
27 Mar 2026
“I heard Ruth Brown, and I just found my kind of music,” — Janis Martinoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
“As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.” — Dubravka Ugrešićoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
“Attention equals Life.” — Frank O’Haraoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
“Make voyages! — Attempt them! — there’s nothing else …” — Tennessee Williamsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
“Too many poets delude themselves by thinking the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous, and must be left in.” — Robert Frostoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
“Memphis amateurs are the world’s professionals.” — Rufus Thomasoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
“I did not begin to write poetry in earnest until the really emotional part of my life was over.” — poet A.E. Housmanoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
March 25, 1911: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fireoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2026
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in the Berkshiresoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2026
“We just always did what we fucking wanted to.” — Kevin Secondsoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: King Johnoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2026
“If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.” – Joan Crawfordoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2026
Dynamic Duo #48original ↗
22 Mar 2026
“Every choice I’ve ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.” — Peter Brookoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2026
Review: Tow (2026)original ↗
20 Mar 2026
The night we performed for William Hurtoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
“Reality is always extraordinary.” — Mary Ellen Markoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
“I think my cinema is minimalist because so is my gaze: I’m very interested in people.” — Joanna Hoggoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
“I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!” — Jerry Reedoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
“Can’t no man play like me.” — Sister Rosetta Tharpeoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.” — Henrik Ibsenoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Richard IIoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2026
“In the beginning I never found poems in the American literary pantheon about the things I knew best. I decided that I would at least do my part and try to put some of those poems in there.” — Rhode Island’s first poet laureate, Michael Harperoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2026
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!original ↗
17 Mar 2026
“If it hadn’t been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.” — Kurt Russelloriginal ↗
17 Mar 2026
“A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?” — Rudolf Nureyevoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2026
“The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character – that is the purpose of films and theatre.” — Isabelle Huppertoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
On grief: Eric Church and Anderson Cooperoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2026
“Life was bitter and I was not. All around me was poverty and sordidness but I refused to see it that way. By turning it into jokes, I made it bearable.” — Max Shulmanoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2026
“I couldn’t keep a dog and a James Joyce and a bookshop.” — Sylvia Beachoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: A Midsummer Night’s Dreamoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2026
“Make the most of what you have and enjoy being female; enjoy being you.” — Bunny Yeageroriginal ↗
13 Mar 2026
“My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.” — Liza Minnellioriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” — Jack Kerouacoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
“I am not descended from flesh. I am God.”: It’s Vaslav Nijinsky’s Birthdayoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
“My aim is to imply rather than to overstate. Whenever the reader participates with his own interpretation, I feel that the book is much more successful.” — Ezra Jack Keatsoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2026
“A good director must be able to inspire whoever he was coaching so that the actor would live the scene. Make-believe must become reality.” — Raoul Walshoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2026
February 2026 Snapshotsoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2026
“I’ve never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn’t choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.” — Juliette Binocheoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2026
Happy Birthday, “Mr. Personality” Lloyd Priceoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2026
For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Loveoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2026
“Have you ever noticed how a cat stretches after a nap? We can learn from watching animals.” — Cyd Charisseoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2026
Review: Pompei: Below the Clouds (2026)original ↗
6 Mar 2026
“Since when was genius found respectable?” – Elizabeth Barrett Browningoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2026
Happy Birthday, Dean Stockwelloriginal ↗
5 Mar 2026
“Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don’t get to keep doing that.” — Catherine O’Haraoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2026
“Silence is necessary to tyrants and occupiers, who take pains to have their actions accompanied by quiet.” — Ryszard Kapuścińskioriginal ↗
4 Mar 2026
Jafar Panahi on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Showoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Romeo & Julietoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2026
“I wasn’t born an actress, you know. Events made me one.” — Jean Harloworiginal ↗
3 Mar 2026
“I just love telling stories. That’s what we do and it’s a good business to be in, especially if you know you have talent.” –Jensen Acklesoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2026
“I was going upstream, against the current. I was coming from the North before the North had broken”. — John Montagueoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2026
Review: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026)original ↗
27 Feb 2026
“What a writer asks of his reader is not so much to like as to listen.” — poet Henry Wadsworth Longfelloworiginal ↗
27 Feb 2026
“I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.” — Elizabeth Taylororiginal ↗
27 Feb 2026
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