Oscar Nominating Ballots Mailed Out

Nominating ballots for the best picture Oscar were being mailed to the 5,798 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

There are 311 eligible films for 2005 the most in 32 years, the Academy said Wednesday.


Ballots must be returned by Jan. 21.To qualify, a movie must have a running time of more than 40 minutes, be exhibited on 35mm or 70mm film or a qualifying digital format, and open in a commercial theater, for paid admission, in Los Angeles County between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 and run for seven consecutive days.

Nominations for the 78th Academy Awards will be announced Jan. 31 and the awards will be presented on March 5. (Kris will you wake up and watch a nominees with me this year????)


http://www.oscars.org

My favorite Joan Crawford flick.

The Women (1939)

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Note :

• Though many people view Joan Crawford as the "bad girl" of the movie, Clare Boothe Luce, who wrote (as Clare Boothe) the play that the film was based on, sympathized most with Crystal Allen, Crawford's character.
  
  
• In addition to its all-female cast, every animal that was used in the film (the many dogs and horses) was female as well. In addition, none of the works of art seen in the backgrounds were representative of the male form.
• 
  
  When Norma and Joan were called to shoot publicity stills, neither actress would enter the studio first. Instead, they remained in their limousines and circled the parking lot until director George Cukor summoned them and they instantly behaved like best friends.

Mildred Pierce (1945)

" turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society. "

• Bette Davis turned down the title role, and Barbara Stanwyck was very keen to take it, but Joan Crawford got in first and earned her an Academy Award.
  
  
• Rosalind Russell turned down the title role.
  
  
• Joan Crawford had been under contract with Warner Brothers for two years before starring in this movie. To get the role, she had to submit to a screen test after years of flops at MGM-her previous studio-and turning down several scripts at Warner Brothers.
  
  

• Shirley Temple was originally considered for the part of Veda Pierce.
• http://www.filmsite.org/mild.html

Possessed (1947)

"A married woman''s passion for a former love drives her mad. "

Note : The film's working titles were The Secret and One Man's Secret . According to a press release dated 5 Apr 1944, Ida Lupino, Paul Lukas and Sydney Greenstreet were to star in the film. A 6 Aug 1946 HR news item reports that production closed on the film for several weeks due to Joan Crawford's illness with strep throat.... Joseph Valentine took over from Hickox after the latter had worked for 38 days. Although Joan Crawford appeared in a 1931 film of the same title, it is unrelated to this film."




The Damned Don't Cry! (1950)

Joan Crawford stars in this riveting character study about a woman who will stop at nothing to escape her impoverished lifestyle. Told in flashback, the story sees Crawford leaving the small factory town where she grew up and getting involved with a succession of men, eventually winding up in the middle of a deadly confrontation between her gangster boyfriend and his arch-rival.

The title comes from Eugene O'Neill. In "Mourning becomes Electra", a brother tells his sister: "Don't cry... the damned don't cry."

The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, who seems to have no past, and has now disappeared. In flashback, we see the woman's anonymous roots; her poor working-class marriage, which ends in tragedy and her determination to find "better things." Soon finding that sex appeal is her only salable commodity, she climbs from man to man toward the center of a nationwide crime syndicate...a very perilous position.


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Joan VS. Joan wanna be

Star of the month Joan Crawford

Her portrayal of a good-hearted flapper in her 21st film, "Our Dancing Daughters" (1928), made her a star. Crawford maintained this status throughout the remainder of her career, but not without setbacks. She successfully made the transition to sound films, her Jazz Age image being replaced by young society matrons and sincere, upwardly mobile, sometimes gritty working girls (memorably in "Grand Hotel" 1932) and her mien adopting the carefully sculptured cheekbones, broad shoulders and full mouth audiences remember her for. Her MGM films of the 1930s, though lavish and stylish, were mostly routine and superficial. Despite mature and impressive performances in "The Women" (1939) and "A Woman's Face" (1941), both directed by George Cukor, Crawford continued to be given less-than-challenging roles by the studio.
In 1943 Crawford left MGM and her career took a decided upward turn after she signed with Warner Bros.... Memorable roles in "Mildred Pierce" (1945, for which she deservedly won an Oscar), "Humoresque" (1946) and "Possessed" (1947) restored and consolidated her popularity.

...After this brief period of success, Crawford's career declined once again, and in 1952 her remarkable business acumen told her to leave Warners.... Although these later features were poor vehicles for her talents, she was a resilient and consummate professional with an uncanny knowledge of the business of stardom who was fiercely loyal to her fans and who continued to impose the highest standards of performance upon herself.... and Franchot Tone and was portrayed as a cruel, violent and calculating mother by Faye Dunaway in the 1981 film, "Mommie Dearest", based on a scathing biography by her adopted daughter Christina.

Just for fun,,

Not only HANDSOME but also wonderful actor. Try to guess who is my fav. (click on the picture)

Don't for get about us at No.1

With "Don't Forget About Us" moving to No. 1, Mariah Carey and Elvis Presley are tied for second place among artists with the most No. 1 hits in the rock era, behind the Beatles, who have 20.

But Can They sing ??

Official Oscar Poster release

THis Is Funny

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Joan Crawford Diva Quotes

"Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead."




"Never love anything that can't love you back."



"I was born in front of a camera
and really don't know anything else."


"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man."



"Hollywood is like life, you face it
with the sum total of your equipment."

"I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course is her hairdresser."



"If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody."

"I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend."

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house,
you can never tell."

"If you’ve earned a position, be proud of it. Don’t hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, ‘There’s Joan Crawford!’ I turn around and say, ‘Hi! How are you!’"




"You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed."




"I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form."


"If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst."



"I need sex for a clear complexion,but I'd rather do it for love."

Did You know?

Did you guys know that who is this actor Mother?

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Legend to legend

Paul Newman remembers working with his CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958) co-star Elizabeth Taylor in this TCM original featurette.

Drinking Again

Jayne Mansfield

2 oz vodka
1 ½ oz pineapple juice
¾ oz cream
¾ oz coconut cream
dash grenadine
crushed ice

Mix it all ingredients in blender. Serve in a tall glass, topped with maraschino cherries.
Virgin Version: Just leave out the vodka.

Sophia Loren

1 teaspoon vermouth

1 oz fresh-squeezed blood-orange juice, or regular orange juice
2 oz gin
½ oz Campari
2 tsp Cointreau

Swirl the vermouth around in a tall, thin glass to coat it, then toss out any extra. Shake everything else with ice in a blender, then pour over ice into the glass.

Mae West Cocktail

Yolk of 1 egg
1 tsp. Powdered Sugar
1 Glass Brandy

Shake well and strain into a medium sized glass. Top with a dash of Cayenne Pepper.

Marlene Dietrich Cocktail

3/4 Wineglass Rye or Canadian Whisky
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
2 Dashes Curacao

Shake well and strain into a wineglass. Squeeze orange and lemon peel on top.

Garbo Gargle Cocktail

1 Dash Creme de Menthe
1/4 Orange Juice 1/4 Grenadine
1/4 French Vermouth
1/4 Brandy

Shake well and strain into a medium sized glass. Top with a splash of Port Wine.

Ginger Rogers Cocktail

1/3 French Vermouth
1/3 Dry Gin
1/3 Apricot Brandy
4 Dashes Lemon Juice

Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.

Jean Harlow Cocktail

1/2 Bacardi Rum
1/2 Italian Vermouth
Peel of Lemon or piece of lemon

Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.

Mary Pickford Cocktail

1/2 Bacardi Rum
1/2 Pineapple Juice
1 tsp. Grenadine
6 Drops Maraschino

Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.

WarnerBros

Warner Brothers


* Known For: Working-class grittiness; also, musicals and biopics
* In Charge: Jack & Harry Warner, Hal Willis
* Directors: Michael Curtiz, Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley
* Actresses: Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford,Jane Wyman, Olivia De Havilland
* Actors: James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni, Erroll Flynn, Humphrey Bogart
* Typical Films: Little Caesar, Public Enemy, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Roaring Twenties, 42nd Street, The Life of Emile Zola

Warner Brothers, one of Hollywood's most famous studios, was founded in 1923 by four actual brothers: Jack, Sam, Harry & Albert Warner. The siblings never seemed to get along with each other, but Warner Bros Studios managed to produce some of the most memorable movies in the history of Hollywood, including the world's first "talkie" with Al Jolson, "The Jazz Singer" (1927), "The Adventures Robin Hood" (1938), "Casablanca" (1942), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), "Deliverance" (1972), "The Exorcist" (1973), "Chariots of Fire" (1981), "Body Heat" (1981), and the current string of "Batman" films.

Where M-G-M went in for bright, colorful musicals, Warner Bros preferred black & white, and gritty, realistic dramas. The studio put out numerous top notch gangster films, such as "Little Caesar" (with Edward G. Robinson, 1930), "The Public Enemy" (with James Cagney, 1921), "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932), as well as Humphrey Bogart insuch classic film noir as "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "The Big Sleep" (1946) and of course the unforgettable "Casablanca" (1941). They also gave us such Oscar winning dramas as "The Story of Louis Pasteur" (1936), "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937), and "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948).

When Warner Bros did give the public musicals, they were usually black and white (such as "42nd Street" and Busby Berkley's "Gold Diggers" films), and were often a bit more cynical than those M-G-M Technicolor spectaculars. It wasn't until the late 1950's that Warner Bros finally favored full color, big time musicals, and then the studio went all out, creating classics such as "Damn Yankees" (1958), "The Music Man" (1962), "Camelot" (1967), and "My Fair Lady" (1964).

RKO

RKO

* Known For: stylish and sophisticated musicals; literary adaptations, King Kong; this is also the studio that allowed Orson Welles to make Citizen Kane
* In Charge: kept changing through the 1930s
* Directors: most often on loan from other studios (e.g. John Ford, George Cukor, Howard Hawks)
* Actresses: Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers
* Actors: Fred Astaire
* Typical Films: King Kong, Astaire and Rogers musicals

RKO pictures enjoys a storied and renowned legacy. Founded in 1929 from the merger of the Keith Orpheum theater circuit (1882), Joseph P. Kennedy’s Film Booking Office (1917) and Radio Corporation of America (RCA) (1909), RKO is the oldest of the continuously operating movie studios, and occupies a unique place in the history of filmmaking. In fact, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, RKO released an average of 40 movies per year, and in some years we released one film each week!

Some of the extraordinary talent to appear in RKO productions, include: Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Orson Welles, Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock. RKO classics have included: King Kong, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Belles of St. Mary, The Best Years of Our Lives, as well as a host of Astaire-Rogers musicals. The Walt Disney evergreens Fantasia and Snow White were also distributed by RKO.

20th Century-Fox

20th Century Fox


* Known For: John Ford films, Shirley Temple films
* In Charge: Darryl Zanuck
* Directors: John Ford, Walter Lang
* Actresses: Shirley Temple, Loretta Young,Carmen Miranda, Betty Grable, Malilyn Monroe,Vera Ellen, Mauleen O’hara, Ann Baxtor, Gene Tierney
* Actors: Henry Fonda, Charles Boyer, John Wayne, Tyrone Power
* Typical Films: Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, Shirley Temple films, Charlie Chan films

FOX was founded in 1913 by William Fox, the studio had begun producing the famous Movietone Newsreels (the precursor of today's network newscasts) even before they moved to their current location.

Had opened their studios in Century City in 1928, on land which used to be the personal ranch of Western movie star Tom Mix.

Merged with Twentieth Century Pictures (which had been founded in 1933 by Daryll Zanuck, after he left Warner Brothers), and the company became 20th Century Fox in 1935.

In the years since, 20th Century Fox Studios has produced such memorable films as: "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "Rebecca" (1940), "Song of Bernadette" (1943), "Laura" (1944), "State Fair" (1945), the original "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947, and its 1997 remake), "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947), "The Robe" (1953), "Cleopatra" (1963), "The Sound of Music" (1965), "Hello Dolly" (1969), "Patton" (1970), the original "M*A*S*H" (1970), "The French Connection" (1971), "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), "Romancing the Stone" (1984), "Cocoon" (1985), "Die Hard" (1988), "Predator" (1987) and "Home Alone" (1990).

to the release of "Titanic," the studio's biggest hit was 1977's "Star Wars," which still ranks as the fourth highest renting movie of all time (behind only "E.T."

...Fox gave us the fourteen "Sherlock Holmes" mysteries starring Basil Rathbone, as well as the five "Planet of the Apes" adventures (1968-1973), the three thrillers based on 1976's "The Omen," and the many "Alien" films starring Sigourney Weaver

Century Fox's epic "All About Eve" was nominated for more Academy Awards (fourteen) than any other motion picture in the history of Hollywood (although it actually won "only" six Oscars, including Best Picture of 1950). 1963's "Cleopatra" was the most expensive film ever made at its time, and its star, Elizabeth Taylor, still holds the world record for the most costumes changes in a single movie (she wore 64 different costumes in that one Egyptian epic).

Paramount

* Known For: European sophistication
* In Charge: Adolph Zukor, Barney Balaban
* Directors: Cecil B. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, Rouben Mamoulian, Mitchell Leisen, Dorothy Arzner, Billie Wilder
* Actresses: Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Claudette Colbert, Sylvia Sidney, Mar Pickford
* Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Marx Bros, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Ray Milland, George Raft
Typical Films: Trouble in Paradise, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Death Takes a Holiday, Easy Living,Phyco ,It’s a wonderfel life, Sunset Blvd.,Vertigo, Rear Window

Dubbed the most “European” and “sophisticated” of the American studios in the 1930s and '40s, Paramount became known for its exotic foreign imports.... Under contract to the studio were the likes of Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, and many others. One of Paramount's precursors, the Feature Play Company, made the first feature ever filmed in Hollywood, a Western called The Squaw Man (1914).

Paramount Pictures celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2002, and traces its beginnings to July 12, 1912, when Adolph Zukor founded the production company Famous Players Film Corp. After producing over 3,000 films, Paramount remains committed to the company's original slogan: "If it's a Paramount Picture, it's the best show in town."


...Wings, the studio's 1928 release, received the very first Academy Award® for Best Picture from the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciene

Paramount debuted its wide-screen VistaVision in 1954 to compete with Fox's CinemaScope.... Popular stars and well-known directors made the Paramount logo very familiar to moviegoers.... A bitter takeover struggle between QVC and Viacom in 1993 ended with Paramount becoming part of the Viacom Corporation in 1994. In 2002 the studio celebrated its 90th anniversary. Today it is the only major Hollywood studio actually located in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.Today, Paramount Pictures, together with Paramount Television, CBS Television, Simon & Schuster Publishing, MTV Networks, Showtime Networks, Infinity, BET, UPN, Paramount Parks and Blockbuster Entertainment comprise the entertainment leader, Viacom Inc.

Paramount Pictures is the only major motion picture studio located in Hollywood. It is an expansive, self-contained state-of-the-art production center and business community.
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MGM

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)


* Known For: glitz and glamour * In Charge: Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg
* Directors: George Cukor, Frank Borzage,Standley Donen
* Actresses: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow,Lana Turner,Easther Williams,Judy Garland,Ava Gardner, Leslie caron,Debbie Raynold ,Elizabeth tayler
* Actors: Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, William Powell, Walter Pidgeon, Melvyn Douglas, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, James Stewart,Gene Kelly
* Typical Films: Camille, Grand Hotel, Dinner at Eight, Mutiny on the Bounty, Thin Man series of films, The Wizard of Oz, Singing in the Rain , An American In Paris, Gigi

The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer merger took place in 1924, the same year Columbia Pictures was born in Hollywood. MGM rapidly grew to six working studio lots, more than 180 acres by the end of the 1930s, under the management of Russian immigrant Louis B.... The main lot was like a city within a city, with its own police and fire departments, telegraph and post office, water tower and well, art department, laboratory, and backlot amenities like the mill, electrical, paint and lock shops, as well as the needed wardrobe, make-up, property, lighting and camera departments, etc. By the late 1920s, the glass stages gave way to sound stages (28 during MGM's tenure), with Stage #15 as the largest in the world, another with a tank for underwater scenes and stages with a proscenium arch. Mrs. Mayer, the studio chief's wife taught the commissary chef how to make chicken and matzoh ball soup to her husband's taste.

...Mayer was close to his genius head of production, Irving Thalberg, who was married to actress Norma Shearer.... Mayer had his child stars (like Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Roddy McDowell) schooled on the lot. Adoring locals waited for autographs at the East Gate of the studio boasting "more stars than there are in the heavens."

Getting to know Hollywood Studio System

Some have compared the Hollywood studio system to a factory, and it is useful to remember that studios were out to make money first and art second.... During the Golden Age, the studios were remarkably consistent and stable enterprises, due in large part to long-term management heads--the infamous "movie moguls" who ruled their kingdoms with iron fists.


...Actors and actresses were contract players bound up in seven-year contracts to a single studio, and the studio generally held all the options.... Studios could also force bad roles on actors, and control the minutiae of stars' images with their mammoth in-house publicity departments.


Some of the immigrants' names are almost as familiar as the great studios they created: William Fox (Wilhelm Fuchs), Samuel Goldwyn, Carl Laemmle, Marcus Loew, Louis B.... Of the so-called original “Big Five” studios (Paramount, MGM, Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Brothers, and RKO), all but one (RKO) were founded by “foreigners” or first-generation Americans. Of the “Little Three” (Columbia, United Artists, and Universal), Columbia was founded by two immigrant sons, and it was a spin-off of Universal, founded by a German native (Laemmle). Today, most of the great American film studios have been bought up by huge global corporations (Sony) or absorbed by giant American corporate entities (Disney, AOL Time-Warner). But the studios' origins are classic examples of the American dream and private enterprise, not to mention the contribution of German Jews to the growth of Hollywood.

You Made it .!!!

we 're so pround of you Sean.!!!

Getting to know the Hollywood Studio System

Some have compared the Hollywood studio system to a factory, and it is useful to remember that studios were out to make money first and art second.... During the Golden Age, the studios were remarkably consistent and stable enterprises, due in large part to long-term management heads--the infamous "movie moguls" who ruled their kingdoms with iron fists.

...Actors and actresses were contract players bound up in seven-year contracts to a single studio, and the studio generally held all the options.... Studios could also force bad roles on actors, and control the minutiae of stars' images with their mammoth in-house publicity departments.

Some of the immigrants' names are almost as familiar as the great studios they created: William Fox (Wilhelm Fuchs), Samuel Goldwyn, Carl Laemmle, Marcus Loew, Louis B.... Of the so-called original “Big Five” studios (Paramount, MGM, Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Brothers, and RKO), all but one (RKO) were founded by “foreigners” or first-generation Americans. Of the “Little Three” (Columbia, United Artists, and Universal), Columbia was founded by two immigrant sons, and it was a spin-off of Universal, founded by a German native (Laemmle). Today, most of the great American film studios have been bought up by huge global corporations (Sony) or absorbed by giant American corporate entities (Disney, AOL Time-Warner). But the studios' origins are classic examples of the American dream and private enterprise, not to mention the contribution of German Jews to the growth of Hollywood.

CHEESY SNOWMAN

CHEESY SNOWMAN: "




Roly-poly and covered with cheese, this delicious snowman is perfect for a wintertime get-together.

Decked out in a pumpernickel chapeau and celery scarf, this savory soul will make kids' hearts go thumpety-thump. His eyes and buttons are olives; his nose—what else?—a carrot tip.
RECIPE
SERVES 6 TO 8

1 pound cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 cups Monterey Jack cheese, grated
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
Salt and freshly ground pepper
Celery, clove, pumpernickel
slice, black olives, and carrot

1. In a food processor, combine cream cheese (reserve a spoonful for hat), 1/2 cup Monterey Jack, garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Freeze until firm, 30 minutes.

2. Shape mixture into 3 balls; roll balls in remaining Monterey Jack. Freeze until firm, about 1 hour.

3. Just before serving, stack balls; secure with toothpicks. Use vegetable peeler to shave celery scarf; pin with clove. Cut bread into 1- and 11/2-inch rounds; glue hat together with cream cheese, then secure with toothpick. Punch dots from olives with plain round pastry tips, and cut end off carrot; press in place. Serve with crackers. "

Happy Hollidays you guys !!!!

Moorehead Day On TCM

TCM tribute to our first star of the month Agnes Moorehead with five of her picture.

7:00 AM	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family. Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead. D: Orson Welles. BW 88m. CC DVS
8:30 AM	Mrs. Parkington (1944) A lady's maid marries a man whose prospects push her into high society. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Agnes Moorehead. D: Tay Garnett. BW 124m. CC
10:45 AM	Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) A Norwegian farmer tries to raise two children in the Midwest. Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig. D: Roy Rowland. BW 106m. CC
12:45 PM	Dark Passage (1947) A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead. D: Delmer Daves. BW 106m. CC DVS
2:45 PM	Johnny Belinda (1948) A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate. Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Agnes Moorehead. D: Jean Negulesco. BW 102m. CC

"One night only" An affair of Joan and Marilyn

Revealed a few glimpses into Monroe's mind in excerpts of tape recordings the sex symbol and actress is said to have secretly made for her psychiatrist in the days before she died at the age of 36 in 1962



Here are some excerpts from his notes




ON JOAN CRAWFORD:Oh yes, Crawford....We went to Joan's bedroom ... Crawford had a gigantic orgasm and shrieked like a maniac. Credit Natasha. She could teach more than acting.Next time I saw Crawford she wanted another round. I told her straight out I didn't much enjoy doing it with a woman. After I turned her down, she became spiteful.

ON MAE WEST:But Doctor, I don't understand this big taboo about enemas. Most of the actresses I know use them, even some who won't admit it.Mae West told me she is given an enema every day and she has at least one orgasm a day... Mae says her enemas and orgasms will keep her young until she is 100. I hope she makes it. A nice lady even though she turned down making a picture with me. That just shows how smart she is.

Click to read the full Marilyn Monroe Secret Transcripts

As for Joan Crawford, I know that also in the transcipts she said she had a friendly relationship with her, but after she “rejected” her advances Joan Crawford didn’t have many nice things to say about Monroe. I think NOW we know the true reason for her animosity. She was a former one night stand for Monroe. She was bitter over it.

Here Is a word from Joan To Marilyn

Joan was quite outspoken about her dislike of Marilyn Monroe. Upon hearing the news of Marilyn’s death, Joan was quite upset. She was having dinner at George Cukor’s house, when he called her on it. “What is this? You never liked Marilyn.” Joan answered, “Yes, you’re right. She was cheap, and an exhibitionist. She was never professional, and that irritated the hell out of people. But, for God’s sake, she needed help. She had all these people on her payroll. Where they hell were they when she needed them? Why in the hell did she have to die alone?”

Who is Truman Capote?

Who  is Truman Capote?
From Wikipedia


Truman Capote photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948
Truman Capote (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American writer.
He is best known for his "nonfiction novel" (a phrase he himself coined to describe journalism with a literary voice) In Cold Blood and the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, both of which were adapted into movies. He wrote a childhood memoir called A Christmas Memory that he adapted for television and narrated. His works have become classics in the literary world.

BB mountain

Entertainment weekly Bareback mountain oops Brokeback mountain Jake and Heath talk about makeing love in da movie

"Two young, male mainstream movie stars had never engaged in such ravenous make-out sessions or such graphically choreographed sex. The Brokeback script called for all that in addition to the biggest acting challenge: genuine intimacy and raw emotion. Both actors tried to hide their day-of jitters with varying degrees of success. ''I was super uncomfortable, but I was the one who shouldn't have been,'' recalls Gyllenhaal, explaining that his character is the more sexually experienced of the two. ''What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive.

...And then Lee made them repeat the sex scene 13 times. ''For me it was a little easier than it was for Jake,'' Ledger says, nervously pulling his red cap inside out and back again between his hands.

...''Heath and I made love,'' Gyllenhaal says, with an impish grin, ''and they got a baby out of it.''

Star of the month "Joan Crawford"

She Was Consistently Joan Crawford, Star

By George Cukor

The New York Times, May 22nd, 1977

(Cukor also read these words at Joan's June 24, 1977, Hollywood tribute.)

"She was the perfect image of the movie star and, as such, largely the creation of her own indomitable will. She had, of course, very remarkable material to work with: a quick native intelligence, tremendous animal vitality, a lovely figure and, above all, her face, that extraordinary sculptural construction of lines and planes, finely chiseled like the mask of some classical divinity from fifth-century Greece. It caught the light superbly, so that you could photograph her from any angle, and the face moved beautifully."

"Including her love affair with the camera. In the days before zoom lenses and advanced electronics, cameras often had to be mounted on great cumbersome cranes, maneuvered by as many as twelve men, and close-ups might well require all this to be pushed from extreme long shots to within a few inches of an actor's face. Many found it difficult to overcome some understandable nervousness as this juggernaut ground closer and closer. Not Joan Crawford. The nearer the camera, the more tender and yielding she became---her eyes glistening, her lips avid in ecstatic acceptance. The camera saw, I suspect, a side of her that no flesh-and-blood lover ever saw."

(read the full article at http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/cukortribute.htm)

But I'm a cheerleader !!!!!!

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE CHEERS

AMERICA'S MOST INSPIRING MOVIES WILL BE CELEBRATED IN NINTH ANNUAL AFI/CBS TELEVISION EVENT

AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies will count down America's 100 most inspiring films, as chosen by experts of the motion picture community, in a three-hour television event on the CBS Television Network in June 2006.

For the ninth consecutive year, the primetime special will be executive produced and directed by Gary Smith; executive produced for AFI by former AFI Board chair Frederick S. Pierce; and produced by Dann Netter and Bob Gazzale. Past sponsors of the series have included General Motors, Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Best Buy, Anheuser-Busch, Colgate-Palmolive, SBC and all major motion picture companies.

Where the star hang out ?

Pierce Bros Westwood Village Memorial Park is hidden behind the towering high-rises that line busy Wilshire Boulevard; you could easily drive right past the park without even realizing it was there. Yet at this tiny cemetery near UCLA, you will find the final resting places of some of the most famous stars in Hollywood, including Marilyn Monroe, Donna Reed, Dean Martin, Natalie Wood, Roy Orbison, Carroll O'Connor, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Peggy Lee, Mel Torme, Peggy Lee, George C. Scott, Burt Lancaster, Eve Arden, Carl Wilson, Eva Gabor and Truman Capote.

If you had to choose only one Hollywood cemetery to visit, Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park would be your best bet. It is a small, intimate park, where the stars' graves are fairly easily located ), yet there are numerous major celebrities buried here. (Note : 2 of "some like it hot" star Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe and it's director Billie wilder have their own space here I'm sure Tony Curtiz already in a waiting list)

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The Jacksons

What a different a year made.