Looking Back

The new century starts roughly: a blast of horror and fear, wars and financial crisis. But the digital era can't, won't be stopped.

The last years of the 20th Century are expansive times - optimism reigns, hair is big and shoulders are strong. All the while, in silence at first, the terrible AIDS scourge wreaks havoc in the industry, cutting a path of destruction through friendships, families, and entire cities.

The HFPA’s resident musical historian Phil Berk uncovers a “lost” Fox gem scored by Kurt Weill As an avid collector of Broadway musical LPs, in 1955 I happened upon a rare recording of songs written by Kurt Weill for a long forgotten 20th Century Fox musical called Where Do we Go From Here? The recording boasted one unforgettable number entitled The Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria. Not only were the lyrics (by Ira Gershwin) nimble and witty, but the melodies were instantly hummable.

Shady gangsters, witty femme fatales and cynical private eyes: “Noir City”, The 17th Annual Festival of Film Noir is currently under way at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. The Opening Night film Woman on the Run (1950) starring Ann Sheridan was restored last year with funds from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s charitable trust.

I can't help but feel different once I'm cinched into that corset for Age of Innocence. I start to carry myself differently, I stand differently, I sit differently, I walk differently, and I present myself differently.

A costume is very important. Some mystical thing happens when you wear the right costume.

I lived in Bel Air for quite a long time. If you have a party and someone asks how to get to my house, I just say, "Buy a map.

I was born in Nevada, Missouri. My grandfather won the town in a poker game.

I was in a taxi with Woody (Allen) on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. The cab was stuck in traffic.

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