Here we go... You all know character actors rarely get famous. Most of the time they show up, and our response is something like, "Oh, it's that person. What's their name again?" That's to be expected; I've heard it said that the sign of a good character actor is when audiences don't know who they … Continue reading Discovering Eve Arden
Regency House Murder
Remember that thumbs-down I gave A Strange Brand of Happy in August? This is the day, friends, when I reveal the other haul item I mysteriously alluded to, and that is...drum roll, please...Julianna Deering's mystery novel, Dressed For Death. Yeah, I know, it took me long enough. Life, people. Life got in the way. Anyway, like most clearance … Continue reading Regency House Murder
Origins: Luke’s Journey From Farm Boy to Last Jedi
All righty, here's that new surprise series I told you about. My husband and I cooked it up last weekend, but it was mostly his idea (Thanks, honey!). Origins will feature little blips about current films, but will mainly focus on their earlier iterations or else films that are similar to them. Or, it might … Continue reading Origins: Luke’s Journey From Farm Boy to Last Jedi
Page To Screen (Not Really): The Princess Bride
There's no way I, as a good Gen-Xer, was going to let 2017 go by without a nod to one of the movies of my generation: The Princess Bride. It's the film's thirtieth anniversary, no less. Let this opportunity pass? Inconceivable! This is the movie we learned inside and out, and we quoted it to each other. All the … Continue reading Page To Screen (Not Really): The Princess Bride
Another Year
Taking Up Room is now two. Wow, this has been a big year. One of the things about 2017 that blows my mind is that as of next week I will have gotten to participate in a whopping twenty-two blogathons. In 2016 I only did four. Blogathons are addictive. I hesitate to call 2017 the … Continue reading Another Year
Extra Baggage
For the rest of his career, David O. Selznik tried and failed to recapture the tremendous success he enjoyed with Gone With the Wind, but even he took a breather and made smaller movies now and then. Not many, but he made them, and probably the most winsomely strange of the bunch was 1945's I'll Be Seeing … Continue reading Extra Baggage
Taking Up Room 