le dimanche 09 août 2009 [n° 2337] Music
The Las Vegas story (1952)
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THE LAS VEGAS STORY (1952) - Music by Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics by Harold Adamson
My Resistance Is Low was written in 1951 by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Harold Adamson (lyrics) and was featured in the movie The Las Vegas Story. The song was largely ignored in the US but became a big hit in the ...
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le vendredi 17 avril 2009 [n° 2315] Art
"Le génie c'est ce que nous avons tous quand nous refusons de faire mieux pour faire autre chose. Quand nous refusons seulement d'avoir du talent."
Gil Joseph WOLMAN (1964)
"Dans l’histoire du cinéma expérimental, 1951 apparaît aujourd’hui comme une année charnière, celle de la création des premiers films lettristes : "Traité de bave et d’éternité" d’Isidore Isou, "L’Anticoncept" de Gil J. Wolman ...
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le lundi 22 décembre 2008 [n° 2278] Cinema
En 1944, Diello sert un ambassadeur anglais à Ankara, en Turquie. Il en profite pour livrer des photographies de documents secrets alliés aux Nazis sous un nom de code : Cicéron. La comtesse polonaise Anna Staviska fait mine de l'aider...
Le projet du film avait été confié à Henry Hathaway avant que Joseph L. Mankiewicz, passionné par la véritable histoire de ...
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[Keefer's testimony]
"Mr. Keefer," said the judge advocate, "at any time prior to 18 December were you informed that Maryk suspected Queeg of being mentally ill?"
"Yes."
"Describe how you learned this fact."
"At Ulithi, about two weeks before the typhoon, Maryk showed me a medical log he'd kept on Queeg's behavior. He asked me to come with him to the New Jersey to ...
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le mardi 17 juin 2008 [n° 2095] Cinema
The Montesi scandal
Wilma Montesi
"Early on a windy morning in April 1953, the body of a young woman washed up on a beach outside of Rome. Her name was Wilma Montesi, and, as the papers reported, she had left her home in the city center a day earlier, alone. The police called her death an accidental drowning. But the public was ...
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