Original movie posters, like this one that Nicolas Cage recently sold of the 1931 “Dracula” for $310,700, have multiplied in value by up to 10 times over the past five years. And to think that I was about to throw one out.
Pop diva Madonna recounted to Israelis the long spiritual search that led her to the Jewish mystic religion Kabbalah, in an article published on Friday by Israel’s largest newspaper. From the point of view of Orthodox Jews, her studying the Kabbalah is sacrilege as they … Read more »
Coldplay has just released a video for “Strawberry Swing.” Beatles, anyone?
Of this list my favorite has got to be Parker Posey as Danica Talos in Blade: Trinity (2004). Posey made a rare departure from indie dramas to play Talos, a vampire who helped free an imprisoned Dracula, in the third Blade film. As always, Posey … Read more »
Englishman Arthur S. Mole and his American colleague John D. Thomas took these incredible pictures of thousands of soldiers, as they returned from World War I, forming icons of American history. Arthur’s great nephew Joseph Mole, 70, says: “In the picture of the Statue of … Read more »
The Guardian reports: ‘The first review of Nabokov’s “The Original of Laura,” the book the author (pictured) instructed his wife to burn but which his son decided to publish, is out, and it’s not a good one.’ More pans to come, I suspect.
