Tara Hanks
@marina72.bsky.social
Author of 2 novels (Wicked Baby and The Mmm Girl), Jeanne Eagels biographer, blogs at The Marilyn Report.
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Beauty. From a negative in my collection, no date/info.
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Beauty. From a negative in my collection, no date/info.
I first saw Amy Levy's name on a Brighton bus (she was a schoolgirl here.) Read her novel but couldn't find out much more about her at the time, so this is good news.
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
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November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I first saw Amy Levy's name on a Brighton bus (she was a schoolgirl here.) Read her novel but couldn't find out much more about her at the time, so this is good news.
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“Forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
1972/2025
1972/2025
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“Forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
1972/2025
1972/2025
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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
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New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
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A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
For a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a country’s fundamental …
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November 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
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Damn, even the cat voting?
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Damn, even the cat voting?
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Mary Magdalene was being penitent and then... she just fell asleep. It happens to the best of us! Here depicted by Hendrick ter Brugghen, whose day was today.
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Mary Magdalene was being penitent and then... she just fell asleep. It happens to the best of us! Here depicted by Hendrick ter Brugghen, whose day was today.
"Oh it's gonna be the way you always thought it would be
But it's gonna be no illusion ..."
But it's gonna be no illusion ..."
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Oh it's gonna be the way you always thought it would be
But it's gonna be no illusion ..."
But it's gonna be no illusion ..."
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Next week: he is to be stripped of the name ‘Andrew’, for bringing disgrace upon it, and will have to issue a formal apology to Andrews everywhere.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Next week: he is to be stripped of the name ‘Andrew’, for bringing disgrace upon it, and will have to issue a formal apology to Andrews everywhere.
"Have you ever seen a show with fellas on the mic
With one minute rhymes that don't come out right ..."
With one minute rhymes that don't come out right ..."
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
"Have you ever seen a show with fellas on the mic
With one minute rhymes that don't come out right ..."
With one minute rhymes that don't come out right ..."
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"So Mr Eisman gave me quite a nice string of pearls and he gave Dorothy a diamond pin and we all went to the Colony for dinner and we all went to a show and supper at the Trocadero and we all spent quite a pleasant evening." #1925Club #BookSky 💙📚
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos – a post for the #1925Club
As some of you will already know, Karen and Simon are hosting another of their hugely popular ‘Club’ events this week. In fact, it’s ten years since they started this venture, so congratulations to…
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October 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"So Mr Eisman gave me quite a nice string of pearls and he gave Dorothy a diamond pin and we all went to the Colony for dinner and we all went to a show and supper at the Trocadero and we all spent quite a pleasant evening." #1925Club #BookSky 💙📚
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Theresa Russell: “By the time we start filming, I always know what my objectives are”
TAGS: #TheresaRussell #Actress #FilmActress #MovieActress #MovieStar #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #FFGent #NicolasRoeg #MeToo #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
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TAGS: #TheresaRussell #Actress #FilmActress #MovieActress #MovieStar #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #FFGent #NicolasRoeg #MeToo #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
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Theresa Russell: “By the time we start filming, I always know what my objectives are”
It was quite a surprise to me when I heard last June that American actress Theresa Russell (b. 1957) would come over to the Film Fest Gent in Belgium this month. Theresa Russell of all people. She …
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October 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Theresa Russell: “By the time we start filming, I always know what my objectives are”
TAGS: #TheresaRussell #Actress #FilmActress #MovieActress #MovieStar #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #FFGent #NicolasRoeg #MeToo #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
URL: filmtalk.org/2025/10/24/t...
TAGS: #TheresaRussell #Actress #FilmActress #MovieActress #MovieStar #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #FFGent #NicolasRoeg #MeToo #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
URL: filmtalk.org/2025/10/24/t...