Sep 30, 2011

Haiku: The Big Sleep (1946)



What is happening?
It’s entertaining, who cares?
An intriguing pair


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Sep 28, 2011

Haiku: Vertigo (1958)


If you can't take heights
Watch out for dames with dark twins
Who tell crazy tales




Sep 26, 2011

Haiku: King Kong (1933)


Beauty didn't kill
The beast who was torn from home
'Twas men setting sail


Sep 25, 2011

Quote of the Week


There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

-Groucho Marx

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Sep 23, 2011

Haiku: Charade (1963)


She can't get over
How many names this guy has
Or that dashing cleft


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Sep 21, 2011

Sep 19, 2011

Sep 18, 2011

Quote of the Week


She was like a horse on the track. Nothing, and then the bell goes, and something happens.

-James Wong Howe, on Greta Garbo


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Sep 16, 2011

Haiku: Peter Ibbetson (1935)



He dreams for hours
Of the Duchess of Towers
And touches her hand


Sep 14, 2011

Haiku: Scarface (1932)


If the world is yours
Because of Tommy Gunfire
It will turn on you


Sep 12, 2011

Haiku: Bombshell (1933)


There's no one to trust
He wants to run through her hair
This business is nuts


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Sep 9, 2011

Sep 7, 2011

Haiku: The Seven Year Itch (1955)


Nothing wrecks the nerves
Like a stairway to nowhere
That reveals a blonde


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Sep 5, 2011

Haiku: A Star Is Born (1954)



A hopeful starlet
The start and end of success
Mrs. Norman Maine


Sep 4, 2011

Quote of the Week


If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

-Peter Sellers

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Sep 2, 2011

Haiku: Notorious (1946)


The endless embrace
One of the keys is missing
The endless staircase