Carrie Rickey
@carrierickey.bsky.social
Movie Geek. Museum Aficionado. Author of the forthcoming, "A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnes Varda" (Norton, 2024)
Sorry to learn that #WilhelminaWigginsFernandez, the soprano who had the title role in #Diva, has passed away, age 75.
February 7, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Sorry to learn that #WilhelminaWigginsFernandez, the soprano who had the title role in #Diva, has passed away, age 75.
“Rare indeed is the legal victory — in court or legislature — that is not a careful byproduct of an emerging social consensus,” wrote Sandra Day O'Connor in an essay quoted in today's NYT obit by Linda Greenhouse. Godspeed, Justice O'Connor.
December 1, 2023 at 4:19 PM
“Rare indeed is the legal victory — in court or legislature — that is not a careful byproduct of an emerging social consensus,” wrote Sandra Day O'Connor in an essay quoted in today's NYT obit by Linda Greenhouse. Godspeed, Justice O'Connor.
Music nerds have phonographic memories. Artists and movie geeks have photographic memories.
#BarbraStreisand has both of those, plus keen gustatory memories.
#BarbraStreisand has both of those, plus keen gustatory memories.
November 25, 2023 at 4:52 PM
Music nerds have phonographic memories. Artists and movie geeks have photographic memories.
#BarbraStreisand has both of those, plus keen gustatory memories.
#BarbraStreisand has both of those, plus keen gustatory memories.
Gloria Grahame is on @tcm at 8pm EST in The Bad and the Beautiful, Vicente Minnelli's delicious Hollywood expose. Kirk Douglas is the Bad, Grahame (who won a supporting actress Oscar) and Lana Turner are the Beauts.
November 22, 2023 at 12:56 AM
Gloria Grahame is on @tcm at 8pm EST in The Bad and the Beautiful, Vicente Minnelli's delicious Hollywood expose. Kirk Douglas is the Bad, Grahame (who won a supporting actress Oscar) and Lana Turner are the Beauts.
#HarryBelafonte and #DorothyDandridge in #CarmenJones, an Americanized update of the George Bizet opera, Carmen. Airing on @tcm at 8pm EST.
November 20, 2023 at 12:04 AM
#HarryBelafonte and #DorothyDandridge in #CarmenJones, an Americanized update of the George Bizet opera, Carmen. Airing on @tcm at 8pm EST.
Tom Rothman, head of Sony's film division, tells The New Yorker that Ridley Scott, 86, director of the studio's #Napoleon, "is the single best argument for a second term for Joe Biden." Your favorite Scott film?
November 17, 2023 at 12:33 AM
Tom Rothman, head of Sony's film division, tells The New Yorker that Ridley Scott, 86, director of the studio's #Napoleon, "is the single best argument for a second term for Joe Biden." Your favorite Scott film?
Looking forward to tonight on @tcm, where the peerless #DonaldBogle will introduce the 1934 #ImitationofLife (that's Louise Beavers and Claudette Colbert at 8pm EDT and #IntruderintheDust at 10pm.
November 2, 2023 at 12:04 AM
Looking forward to tonight on @tcm, where the peerless #DonaldBogle will introduce the 1934 #ImitationofLife (that's Louise Beavers and Claudette Colbert at 8pm EDT and #IntruderintheDust at 10pm.