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2025: A Year in Film
Adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Vineland, no recent film speaks to our chaotic moment like One Battle After Another. Hilarious and unrelenting – with bravura turns from Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio...
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Rosalina Neri: From ‘La Marilyn Italiana’ to Milanese Diva
Rosalina Neri, the singer and actress known as ‘la Marilyn Italiana’ (or ‘Marilina’) has died aged 96 after a short illness. She was born in Arcisate in 1927, in the Varese region of Lombardy. Her...
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61 Years Ago: Retracing Marilyn’s Moment in Time
Marilyn Monroe died 61 years ago; after passing into eternal rest, her body was found in the early hours of August 5th, 1962. This ‘moment in time’ is noted in the latest issue of the British...
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Stella Stevens: An Adventurous Blonde
Actress Stella Stevens died in Los Angeles on Friday, February 17th, 2023, aged 84. She was born Estelle Eggleston in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1938. Her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee when she...
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2022: A Year in Film and TV
My favourite film of 2022 was one of the first I saw. Licorice Pizza is so light and joyful, with newcomers Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman perfectly cast as the goofy young lovers in the San Fernando...
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The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe
“Oh, I’d like to ask you – how do you go about writing a life story? Because the true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things. If you ever get any of those things you want to...
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The Many Faces of Nehemiah Persoff
The great character actor Nehemiah Persoff, whose many roles included the mobster ‘Little Bonaparte’ in Some Like It Hot, has died at the grand old age of 102. Nehemiah was born in Jerusalem in 1919....
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2021: A Year in Music
As the world’s big sleep entered its second year, Lana Del Rey turned away from social media and gave us not just one, but two albums: Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters. The latter...
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2020: A Year in Film
Photo by Curtis Tappenden This photo was taken in Brighton just two winters ago, but it already feels like a distant memory. Founded in 1910, the Duke of York’s is the oldest operating cinema in...
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‘Keeler, Profumo, Ward and Me’
“The story that defined a decade of great change in Great Britain was my big break in Fleet Street, and I covered and loved every moment of it, from the ridiculous to the tragic …” Tom Mangold,...
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‘Dear Christine’ Steps Out in London
Dear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler has just begun the final leg of its tour at Arthouse1 in Bermondsey, London. The opening night was attended by, among others, Christine’s son Seymour...
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Arthur Miller: The Writer and the Man
Rebecca Miller, daughter of American playwright Arthur Miller and his third wife, Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath, is a novelist and filmmaker whose works include The Ballad of Jack and Rose...
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My Hopes and Fears for 2020
As a new decade beckons, I’m deeply worried about the way our world seems to be heading. As W.H. Auden wrote on ‘September 1, 1939‘ (a poem deemed so prescient he tried to bury it …) I sit in one of...
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Merry Christmas To All My Readers
Just a little note from me to wish you all a merry Christmas. If you thought you’d seen off my lists for another year, make room for one more as in a few days, I’ll be looking back at the end of this...
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2019: A Year In Film and TV
In 2019, we said goodbye to sixties icons Albert Finney and Sue Lyon, and remembered Sharon Tate… Barry Jenkins brought James Baldwin’s novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, vividly to life; and Joaquin...
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Soledad 3: Twin Peaks, Blondie and More
The third issue of SOLEDAD Arts Journal is now available to order via Amazon, for £5.18 in the UK or a devilish $6.66 Stateside. The cover photo shows Carol Lynley, who sadly passed away recently,...
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Soledad 2: Twin Peaks, Joe D’Amato and More
The Italian actress Cinzia Monreale lies in her coffin on the cover of SOLEDAD Arts Journal‘s second volume, available now on Amazon for just $6 in the US, or £4.73 in the UK. It’s a still from Buio...
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Dear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know Christine Keeler. She’s almost a mythical character, like folklore … Dear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler, a new multi-media exhibition of women’s...
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Artists in Love: Marilyn and Arthur Miller
This article can also be read at Immortal Marilyn Artists in Love is a ten-part documentary series, produced in Italy for the satellite channel Sky Arts, and first broadcast in 2016. Among the famous...
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From ‘Soledad’ to Hope, With Lynch and Lana
SOLEDAD is a new journal from my good friend Jeremy Richey, the maestro behind ART DECADES. Soledad is (of course) the Spanish word for solitude, which is one of my favourite things. It can be sad,...
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