Friday, May 3, 2013
6. Upon its release Ulmer suddenly found
6. Upon its release Ulmer suddenly found himself working for the Poverty Row studios, where on the bright side ten years later he would make the noir classic, Detour.org. Just stop.Named for a mouse and dressed like a camel, Mickey, a yellow lab from Pasadena, walked away with the first-place prize in the pet costume contest at Garfield Park on Saturday. The lovely bride had a three costume changes just for the grand pagkawin.The amazing part of the Dracula myth is how it endures in so many forms, in so many variations. The studio brought in low-budget filmmaker Edgar Ulmer, another German emigre who’d worked on Expressionist films, and handed him the Poe story. 'The special effects look pretty good, too!’Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan (MATT HART)The Great Gatsby follows a young Midwesterner, Nick Carraway (played by Tobey Maguire), as he arrives in Manhattan in the wild spring of 1922, at a time when the bond market is rocketing, boot-leggers are thriving and morals are loosening.’Edgerton must project both – as well as the faintest hint of a heart – in the role of a hard-muscled, flinty, white supremacist whose other girl is Myrtle Wilson (played by a fellow-Australian, Isla Fisher), the blousy bride of a garage mechanic. Thank you Jim.”The Boston Phoenix’s owner and publisher doesn’t plan a formal bankruptcy filing, but the company has hired The Gordon Law Firm in Boston to liquidate the paper’s assets and distribute the proceeds to creditors.Another gap - that between the ideal and the reality - shows when it comes to kids: just 16 percent of parents overall said it was ideal for mothers with young children to work full time. He’d played more than his share of mad scientists up to this point, but here he plays a very nice mad scientist who’s simply trying to sell his rambling (and crumbling) old house in the country. Do people even go back and watch the whole thing anymore? It’s fast, it’s smart, and for viewers at the time it really was quite shocking.
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