
- Wrote a sort-of-obituary appreciation of Dorothy Malone for The Chiseler. Here.
- Made a video essay with Randall William Cook and editor Timo Langer on the many noses of Orson Welles which is up at Filmstruck, behind a paywall so I can’t link to it. Members can seek it out, though, it’s called ON THE NOSE. (Note: I only realised later that there’s a previous Fimstruck article on the subject, which quotes an even earlier piece from Shadowplay. But what it quotes is NOT TRUE. I was kidding! I was hoping people would realise that. I hate it when people take my jokes seriously, it makes them feel silly when they find out. But at the same time, I don’t want to make the gags more obvious…)
- The magnificent Marilyn Ferdinand honours me by contributing a late entry to The Late Movies Blogathon. It’s about Colleen Moore’s version of THE SCARLET LETTER, and you can read it here.
- And then I got carried away and wrote a sequel to the Dorothy Malone piece. Here.
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January 22, 2018 at 2:53 pm
The Thin Man Nose Home
The Purple Nose of Cairo
Heavenly Nose, Mr. Allison
Wait–wrong thread–
January 22, 2018 at 5:19 pm
Wait-wrong thread-
That Dorothy Malone clip totally fries my synapses every time, too.
January 22, 2018 at 5:29 pm
i believed the joke about ginger rogers coming up with the idea for ROBOT JOX
January 22, 2018 at 5:36 pm
Sort of thing she might do. If pressed.
January 22, 2018 at 10:21 pm
Ken Tynan: “Sir Laurence Olivier began his film of ‘Hamlet’ with the statement that it was ‘the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind.’ At one point Mr Welles’s new appendage started to leave its moorings, and ‘Moby Dick’ nearly became the tragedy of a man who could not make up his nose”.
January 23, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Ha!
And Tynan could never understand why Welles held grudges about lines like that.
February 1, 2018 at 12:19 am
Criterion has put your Orson nose vimeo video on their free access site (for now at least) here:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5346-on-the-channel-introducing-10-minutes-or-less
Very well done.
February 1, 2018 at 11:36 am
Oh great, thanks!