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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0cdfb-647b-7247-b080-c5dcf6f9878d", "title": "“Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.” –Ellen Terry", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190692", "published_at": "2026-02-27T13:30:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-647b-7247-b080-c5dcf74d1521", "title": "“I recognize no rights but human rights.” — Angelina Weld Grimké", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=152962", "published_at": "2026-02-27T13:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-7d8a-73b5-97fc-6e996322c7b7", "title": "Eleanor Roosevelt, the D.A.R., and Marian Andersen", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=144732", "published_at": "2026-02-26T14:00:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-7d8a-73b5-97fc-6e9963f4055a", "title": "“Teens always heard my music with their hearts. The beat was just happy. It didn’t have color or hidden meaning.” — Fats Domino", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190483", "published_at": "2026-02-26T13:30:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-7d8a-73b5-97fc-6e9963f8147a", "title": "“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. 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When you have a good listener you have a good actor.” — Norman Taurog on Elvis", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=155700", "published_at": "2026-02-23T13:00:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-7d8a-73b5-97fc-6e9967a7b2f0", "title": "February 22, 1980: “Do you believe in miracles? YES!”", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=49847", "published_at": "2026-02-22T14:30:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-7d8a-73b5-97fc-6e9968799fff", "title": "“I should like to make even the most ordinary spectator feel that he is not living in the best of all possible worlds.” – Luis Buñuel", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=29046", "published_at": "2026-02-22T14:00:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e1f64b683", "title": "“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.” — David Foster Wallace", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=171745", "published_at": "2026-02-22T13:30:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e201aeaa1", "title": "“I love humanity but I hate people.” — poet Edna St. Vincent Millay", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=9861", "published_at": "2026-02-22T13:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e20e9132e", "title": "“I’m really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.” — Mélanie Laurent", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=168651", "published_at": "2026-02-21T14:30:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e210e6ae7", "title": "“I find it very difficult myself to make movies where I know right from the beginning what the end is going to be.” — Bob Rafelson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=187562", "published_at": "2026-02-21T14:00:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e21ca3314", "title": "“If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.” — Alan Rickman", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143959", "published_at": "2026-02-21T13:30:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e2263f51e", "title": "“Never write from your head; write from your cock.” — Wystan Hugh Auden", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=64924", "published_at": "2026-02-21T13:00:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e22a180f6", "title": "R.I.P. Eric Dane: Alex remembers him", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203226", "published_at": "2026-02-20T14:40:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e235baa9f", "title": "It’s Ron Eldard’s Birthday: the first famous person I interviewed", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162273", "published_at": "2026-02-20T14:35:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e243109a5", "title": "“I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.” – Lili Taylor", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162362", "published_at": "2026-02-20T14:30:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-998b-7049-9f11-d33e24d6aa8e", "title": "“Since I couldn’t actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.” — Sidney Poitier", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=172931", "published_at": "2026-02-20T14:00:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67d-7367-9fb2-f5bb0593b272", "title": "“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” — Kurt Cobain", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=64878", "published_at": "2026-02-20T13:30:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67d-7367-9fb2-f5bb05ee040f", "title": "“The greatest films are the ones that leave you not able to explain, but you know that you have experienced something special.” — Robert Altman", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162382", "published_at": "2026-02-20T13:00:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67e-71fa-96fe-919dc3ce23cc", "title": "R.I.P. Tom Noonan", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203170", "published_at": "2026-02-19T19:36:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67e-71fa-96fe-919dc47481cc", "title": "On Ann Savage in Detour", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=185398", "published_at": "2026-02-19T13:30:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67e-71fa-96fe-919dc53e6abd", "title": "“It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn’t so hard.” — Lee Marvin", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=150904", "published_at": "2026-02-19T13:00:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67e-71fa-96fe-919dc599d354", "title": "Review: Honey Bunch (2026)", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203131", "published_at": "2026-02-16T18:22:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67e-71fa-96fe-919dc5d7391b", "title": "“I have already been accused of trying to drown a boatload of wild Irishmen on Aran!” — Robert Flaherty", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162297", "published_at": "2026-02-16T13:00:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67e-71fa-96fe-919dc6c61b99", "title": "Substack: Interview with author Julia Cooke", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203126", "published_at": "2026-02-16T02:30:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67e-71fa-96fe-919dc70ef967", "title": "X Marks the Spot", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=126596", "published_at": "2026-02-14T15:00:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-b67e-71fa-96fe-919dc7e42a85", "title": "Valentine’s Day Story #2: The Spitball Valentine", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=64634", "published_at": "2026-02-14T14:00:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9c6100770", "title": "Valentine’s Day Story #1: An Eyeball and a Dozen Roses", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=33439", "published_at": "2026-02-14T13:30:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9c64739e5", "title": "“I looked like a bad girl. But I wasn’t a bad girl, really. I was a very nice little girl, until I found out what life was.”– Harriet Andersson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=150823", "published_at": "2026-02-14T13:00:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9c658eae8", "title": "Happy Birthday, Burt Reynolds: “My love is unironic.”", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143921", "published_at": "2026-02-11T14:15:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9c6c0711b", "title": "“Listen, I never meant to make money. I never wanted it. I’m a singer, man.” — Gene Vincent", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190674", "published_at": "2026-02-11T14:00:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9c727fced", "title": "“Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back” — Kim Stanley", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=142775", "published_at": "2026-02-11T13:45:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9c7f682cf", "title": "“The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.” — Burt Reynolds", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=135516", "published_at": "2026-02-11T13:30:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9c875ece3", "title": "Josh White, singer of “the fighting blues”", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=187751", "published_at": "2026-02-11T13:00:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9c96ecf30", "title": "January 2026 Snapshots", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202975", "published_at": "2026-02-11T04:09:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9c9de1138", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Comedy of Errors", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202954", "published_at": "2026-02-10T13:30:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-cbc0-7012-9d35-5df9ca239a0f", "title": "“I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. Books think for me.” — Charles Lamb", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=201298", "published_at": "2026-02-10T13:00:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d594f679e", "title": "January 2026 Viewing Diary", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202681", "published_at": "2026-02-09T14:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d5a4a9f47", "title": "“All my work is about uncovering, especially uncovering of voices that speak without governance, or that speak without being heard.” — Seamus Deane", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151056", "published_at": "2026-02-09T13:30:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d5a9c1443", "title": "“If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.” – Happy Birthday, Brendan Behan", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=62902", "published_at": "2026-02-09T13:00:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d5af5ec77", "title": "For James Dean’s Birthday", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=133287", "published_at": "2026-02-08T14:15:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d5b9d786f", "title": "The First Glimpse of The Guy Who Started It All", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=125638", "published_at": "2026-02-08T13:45:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d5c6ea488", "title": "“Since we do float on an unknown sea I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way very carefully.” — poet Elizabeth Bishop", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=49270", "published_at": "2026-02-08T13:30:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d5c77c2b2", "title": "“The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.” — Nick Nolte", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162358", "published_at": "2026-02-08T13:00:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d5c91c491", "title": "“Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.” — Charles Dickens", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=113643", "published_at": "2026-02-07T13:00:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d5d473a9a", "title": "“For I, the chiefest lamp of all the earth…” — Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151617", "published_at": "2026-02-06T14:00:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfb-f094-72c6-b61a-734d5e16d9e2", "title": "“Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.” — poet Anne Spencer", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=152950", "published_at": "2026-02-06T13:30:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-337327e4ae38", "title": "“and I / spoke with tongues that sent their devotees / out of this world!” — poet Melvin B. Tolson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=152775", "published_at": "2026-02-06T13:00:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-33732894ec0f", "title": "“Since the beginning, I’ve said, ‘I’m not going to get involved with my image.’” – Charlotte Rampling", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162174", "published_at": "2026-02-05T13:30:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-3373295caaf2", "title": "“I don’t need to ‘tell’ the story…The story is being told from itself by following the different moments in different locations.” — Mia Hansen-Løve", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162408", "published_at": "2026-02-05T13:00:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-33732995bdd1", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Titus Andronicus", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202930", "published_at": "2026-02-04T14:00:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-337329de59bb", "title": "“Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.” — Ida Lupino", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143677", "published_at": "2026-02-04T13:00:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-337329df0afa", "title": "February 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=95636", "published_at": "2026-02-03T13:00:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-33732ad2592a", "title": "Frankenstein: interview with Taylor Gonzales", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=203024", "published_at": "2026-02-03T01:42:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-33732add7e34", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Taming of the Shrew", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202909", "published_at": "2026-02-02T14:30:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-33732b7b2411", "title": "On This Day: February 2, 1882/1922", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=62551", "published_at": "2026-02-02T14:00:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-0ff4-71ee-9081-33732bcf9b86", "title": "“I still keep my watch two hours behind.” — Lisa Marie Presley", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=187300", "published_at": "2026-02-01T14:00:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e64683fde", "title": "“The mood of the Blues is almost always despondency, but when they are sung people laugh.” — Langston Hughes", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=77618", "published_at": "2026-02-01T13:30:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e64886527", "title": "“The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.” — John Ford", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=162301", "published_at": "2026-02-01T13:00:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e64c47f71", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Two Gentlemen of Verona", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202887", "published_at": "2026-01-31T13:30:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e6582cb5f", "title": "“All these weird stages in my teenage years are documented. Why did no one tell me how terrible some of those outfits were?”– Justin Timberlake", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=135527", "published_at": "2026-01-31T13:00:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e65b1c8d2", "title": "“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other.” — Anton Chekhov", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=113334", "published_at": "2026-01-29T14:00:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e662ea9e2", "title": "Happy birthday, Polly Platt", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190264", "published_at": "2026-01-29T13:30:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e66a1c1f3", "title": "Happy Birthday, Dorothy Malone", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=142771", "published_at": "2026-01-29T13:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e66b4719b", "title": "2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Rose Rage", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202832", "published_at": "2026-01-27T20:16:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e6714357d", "title": "“I think I’m invisible sometimes.” — Ingrid Thulin", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143252", "published_at": "2026-01-27T13:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-3450-71f3-a703-9f8e67c05b7b", "title": "“Acting is like letting your pants down; you’re exposed.” — Paul Newman", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=113221", "published_at": "2026-01-26T13:00:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-4fd0-7217-944a-d84f975cf2c8", "title": "“You can’t fake this music.” — Etta James", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=190511", "published_at": "2026-01-25T13:30:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-4fd0-7217-944a-d84f98564fbd", "title": "“Gie me ae spark o’ nature’s fire / That’s a’ the learning I desire…” — Robert Burns, “the Ploughman Poet” of Scotland", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=2331", "published_at": "2026-01-25T13:00:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-4fd0-7217-944a-d84f98f27119", "title": "Dynamic Duo #47", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202818", "published_at": "2026-01-25T01:09:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-4fd0-7217-944a-d84f99d4f9de", "title": "Review: In Cold Light (2026)", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202813", "published_at": "2026-01-24T20:41:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-4fd0-7217-944a-d84f9a0e9879", "title": "Forbidden Planet interview: The Art and Making of Frankenstein", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=202806", "published_at": "2026-01-22T15:37:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-4fd0-7217-944a-d84f9a18622e", "title": "“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me–yet I sometimes long for it.” — Lord Byron", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=28182", "published_at": "2026-01-22T14:00:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-4fd0-7217-944a-d84f9a7a647b", "title": "“The fault that I acknowledge in myself is to have descended to print anything in verse.” — John Donne", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151546", "published_at": "2026-01-22T13:30:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdfc-4fd0-7217-944a-d84f9aa20aae", "title": "“Voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. 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2026

“Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.” –Ellen Terryoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2026
“I recognize no rights but human rights.” — Angelina Weld Grimkéoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2026
Eleanor Roosevelt, the D.A.R., and Marian Andersenoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2026
“Teens always heard my music with their hearts. The beat was just happy. It didn’t have color or hidden meaning.” — Fats Dominooriginal ↗
26 Feb 2026
“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.” — Johnny Cashoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2026
Still no power.original ↗
25 Feb 2026
Happy Twin Peaks Day to those who celebrateoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2026
Thundersnow, a pine tree on fire, and plumes of black smoke across the continentoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Love’s Labour’s Lostoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2026
“He is a good listener. When you have a good listener you have a good actor.” — Norman Taurog on Elvisoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2026
February 22, 1980: “Do you believe in miracles? YES!”original ↗
22 Feb 2026
“I should like to make even the most ordinary spectator feel that he is not living in the best of all possible worlds.” – Luis Buñueloriginal ↗
22 Feb 2026
“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.” — David Foster Wallaceoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2026
“I love humanity but I hate people.” — poet Edna St. Vincent Millayoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2026
“I’m really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.” — Mélanie Laurentoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2026
“I find it very difficult myself to make movies where I know right from the beginning what the end is going to be.” — Bob Rafelsonoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2026
“If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.” — Alan Rickmanoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2026
“Never write from your head; write from your cock.” — Wystan Hugh Audenoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2026
R.I.P. Eric Dane: Alex remembers himoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
It’s Ron Eldard’s Birthday: the first famous person I interviewedoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
“I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.” – Lili Taylororiginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
“Since I couldn’t actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.” — Sidney Poitieroriginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” — Kurt Cobainoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
“The greatest films are the ones that leave you not able to explain, but you know that you have experienced something special.” — Robert Altmanoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
R.I.P. Tom Noonanoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2026
On Ann Savage in Detouroriginal ↗
19 Feb 2026
“It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn’t so hard.” — Lee Marvinoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2026
Review: Honey Bunch (2026)original ↗
16 Feb 2026
“I have already been accused of trying to drown a boatload of wild Irishmen on Aran!” — Robert Flahertyoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2026
Substack: Interview with author Julia Cookeoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2026
X Marks the Spotoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2026
Valentine’s Day Story #2: The Spitball Valentineoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2026
Valentine’s Day Story #1: An Eyeball and a Dozen Rosesoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2026
“I looked like a bad girl. But I wasn’t a bad girl, really. I was a very nice little girl, until I found out what life was.”– Harriet Anderssonoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2026
Happy Birthday, Burt Reynolds: “My love is unironic.”original ↗
11 Feb 2026
“Listen, I never meant to make money. I never wanted it. I’m a singer, man.” — Gene Vincentoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2026
“Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back” — Kim Stanleyoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2026
“The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.” — Burt Reynoldsoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2026
Josh White, singer of “the fighting blues”original ↗
11 Feb 2026
January 2026 Snapshotsoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Comedy of Errorsoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2026
“I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. Books think for me.” — Charles Lamboriginal ↗
10 Feb 2026
January 2026 Viewing Diaryoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
“All my work is about uncovering, especially uncovering of voices that speak without governance, or that speak without being heard.” — Seamus Deaneoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
“If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.” – Happy Birthday, Brendan Behanoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
For James Dean’s Birthdayoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
The First Glimpse of The Guy Who Started It Alloriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
“Since we do float on an unknown sea I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way very carefully.” — poet Elizabeth Bishoporiginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
“The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.” — Nick Nolteoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
“Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.” — Charles Dickensoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2026
“For I, the chiefest lamp of all the earth…” — Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaineoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
“Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.” — poet Anne Spenceroriginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
“and I / spoke with tongues that sent their devotees / out of this world!” — poet Melvin B. Tolsonoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
“Since the beginning, I’ve said, ‘I’m not going to get involved with my image.’” – Charlotte Ramplingoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2026
“I don’t need to ‘tell’ the story…The story is being told from itself by following the different moments in different locations.” — Mia Hansen-Løveoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Titus Andronicusoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2026
“Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.” — Ida Lupinooriginal ↗
4 Feb 2026
February 3, 1959: The Day the Music Diedoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2026
Frankenstein: interview with Taylor Gonzalesoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Taming of the Shreworiginal ↗
2 Feb 2026
On This Day: February 2, 1882/1922original ↗
2 Feb 2026
“I still keep my watch two hours behind.” — Lisa Marie Presleyoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2026
“The mood of the Blues is almost always despondency, but when they are sung people laugh.” — Langston Hughesoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2026
“The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.” — John Fordoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Two Gentlemen of Veronaoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2026
“All these weird stages in my teenage years are documented. Why did no one tell me how terrible some of those outfits were?”– Justin Timberlakeoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2026
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other.” — Anton Chekhovoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026
Happy birthday, Polly Plattoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026
Happy Birthday, Dorothy Maloneoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Rose Rageoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
“I think I’m invisible sometimes.” — Ingrid Thulinoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
“Acting is like letting your pants down; you’re exposed.” — Paul Newmanoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2026
“You can’t fake this music.” — Etta Jamesoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2026
“Gie me ae spark o’ nature’s fire / That’s a’ the learning I desire…” — Robert Burns, “the Ploughman Poet” of Scotlandoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2026
Dynamic Duo #47original ↗
25 Jan 2026
Review: In Cold Light (2026)original ↗
24 Jan 2026
Forbidden Planet interview: The Art and Making of Frankensteinoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me–yet I sometimes long for it.” — Lord Byronoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
“The fault that I acknowledge in myself is to have descended to print anything in verse.” — John Donneoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
“Voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.” — Sam Cookeoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
Happy Birthday, Leadbellyoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2026
Substack: On Cimino’s Defeat and a Theatre of Possibilityoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2026
At the Lorraine Moteloriginal ↗
19 Jan 2026
“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.” — Dolly Partonoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2026
“I don’t think my books should be in prison libraries.” — Patricia Highsmithoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2026
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.” — Archie Leachoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2026
“I never told a joke in my life.” — Andy Kaufmanoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2026
Review: Sound of Falling (2026)original ↗
16 Jan 2026
“In France, I’m an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain; a genre film director; and, in the USA, a bum.” — John Carpenteroriginal ↗
16 Jan 2026
NYFCC essay: “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow”original ↗
15 Jan 2026
December 2025 Viewing Diaryoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2026
Solidarity, or: The boy in the green bandanaoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2026
“Precision and accuracy are necessary for both white and black writers. ‘A black aesthetic’ should not be an excuse for sloppy writing.” — poet and publisher Dudley Randalloriginal ↗
14 Jan 2026
“To me, survival is the game – that’s the hardest part. I just wanna play music.” — Dave Grohloriginal ↗
14 Jan 2026
“When I was discovered, everything happened like dominos. I don’t know how to talk about it now because it’s too mindblowing. It’s so unreal, and yet it’s real.” — Faye Dunawayoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2026
“As long as they pay me my salary, they can give me a broom and I’ll sweep the stage. I don’t give a damn. I want the money.” – Kay Francisoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2026
“I look back on my life and draw one great generalization: IT WAS MY REFUSAL TO TAKE CAUTIOUS ADVICE THAT MADE ME.” — Jack Londonoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2026
“I can pick a good song, but I sure couldn’t pick a good man.” — Ruth Brownoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2026
“I’ll stay and look you straight in the eyes like all these normal people when I scream for my rights.” — Taraneh Alidoostioriginal ↗
12 Jan 2026
“Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest. Wise government should avail itself of those passions, to make them subservient to the public good.” — Alexander Hamiltonoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2026
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