Category: Metaphorical Noodles

  • Babbling Books And Motion Pictures

    I thought it might be of interest to myself, perhaps to you, to give the classic bibliographic list of books and films that are very much current in my mind, and for that matter, in my literary and cinematic genetic database. Here, first, is a list of books, stories or…

  • Peter Lorre, Emigre, Star of M, Face-Maker, Mis-Used, Actor’s Actor

    Several months back I saw Fritz Lang’s M in which Peter Lorre introduced himself to cinema. In the film he is a child molester and murderer;  for the greater part of the movie we see Lorre at angles, in shadows and then we catch that face with eyes as big…

  • Orson Welles in Heaven

    This is a short story in progress. I am offering it here for you to comment or to dismiss, whatever the flavor of the day is. Orson Welles is dead, and Steven Spielberg did him in. Always trying to finance another film, Welles is invited by Spielberg to dinner. Spielberg…