Category Archives: L.A. Confidential

Maybe I like to be cheap once in a while….

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Reverend

….maybe everybody does. The following scene is a classic Hollywood moment from Vincente Minnelli‘s 1952 melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful between Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas —and both prove why they are masters, though Douglas steals this one at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Lana Turner

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Reverend

Lana Turner is always hardboiled! I wanted to title this one Johnny Stompanato —if you don’t know the story of Turner’s turbid relationship with the LA Underworld you should (James Ellroy writes them both as characters in L.A. Confidential). This one is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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