tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8697704030949423701..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: CinematicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56036612981940249942011-03-01T07:52:50.524-08:002011-03-01T07:52:50.524-08:00Sorry Tom (!) -- no period after "html" ...Sorry Tom (!) -- no period after "html" -- try it like this:<br /><br />http://www.ubu.com/sound/ohara.htmlSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26252592607675141182011-03-01T07:01:40.132-08:002011-03-01T07:01:40.132-08:00That's Haystack Republican.
(No water in the ...That's Haystack Republican.<br /><br />(No water in the tea.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43922974191105861072011-03-01T03:07:38.692-08:002011-03-01T03:07:38.692-08:00Funny. She doesn't look like a Republican in ...Funny. She doesn't look like a Republican in that picture.<br /><br />Artur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60152011977140274822011-02-28T17:52:06.803-08:002011-02-28T17:52:06.803-08:00ACTUALLY it was
Jane Russ...ACTUALLY it was<br /> Jane Russell ...<br />&not<br />Orson Wells!<br /><br />http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uUYznvj1ti0/TMTgutuT-gI/AAAAAAAAAd4/SaFf4DFpHYs/s1600/russell.jpg<br /><br />... who just died today<br /><br /><br />The Outlaw....Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-55526055694339237972011-02-28T07:19:43.536-08:002011-02-28T07:19:43.536-08:00Steve,
Thanks for trying, my friend, but that UBU...Steve,<br /><br />Thanks for trying, my friend, but that UBU WEB link comes up as "Page Not Found". <br /><br />(Why am I not surprised? The academic avant garde -- strictly academic, when you need it!) <br /><br />And yes, great that two notable Bolinasian geniuses should appear on the same lucky day...<br /><br />in motion relative to<br />one anotherTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76012239079035985052011-02-28T06:15:00.142-08:002011-02-28T06:15:00.142-08:00Tom,
Here's a link to O'Hara reading &quo...Tom,<br /><br />Here's a link to O'Hara reading "To the Film Industry in Crisis," with Jane Freilicher and John Gruen on piano --http://www.ubu.com/sound/ohara.html.<br /><br />Meanwhile, nice to find my/our neighbor Walter here -- "something to do with the physics of recording that sound an then slowing it down" ---<br /><br />2.28<br /><br />grey blackness of sky above still black<br />ridge, white of moon beside pine branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> place with respect to, this<br /> can be arbitrary when<br /><br /> etc., in motion relative to<br /> one another, there is<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />whiteness of cloud to the left of pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-12845070567820265862011-02-27T11:06:11.481-08:002011-02-27T11:06:11.481-08:00Well Ed, I was about to reveal the results of a bi...Well Ed, I was about to reveal the results of a bit of aim-to-please research into the bathetic depths of cultural trivia which revealed that Howard Hughes invented an underwire bra with straps to enhance Jane Russell's already considerable pectoral assets in the film The Outlaw (shot in 1941, but not in general release for five years after that, due to Hughes' struggles with the Production Code over "morally acceptable content").<br /><br />Reportedly the thing was terribly uncomfortable, and Jane did not put up with it happily, nor for very long.<br /><br />However by 1955, it seems, the nation was finally ready for a <a href="http://gogd.tjs-labs.com/show-picture?id=1180810635&size=FULL" rel="nofollow">strapless bra, with free liquor</a>.<br /><br />But "at the end of the day", all other historical sources have now been trumped by Artur, who has, as we say in the biz, nailed it.<br /><br />("Ouch, the damn thing PINCHES," Orson is said to have complained.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29220105978273660592011-02-27T10:45:33.419-08:002011-02-27T10:45:33.419-08:00I believe the first strapless bra was worn by Orso...I believe the first strapless bra was worn by Orson Welles in The Third Man.<br /><br />Artur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73344386183326869072011-02-27T10:43:59.727-08:002011-02-27T10:43:59.727-08:00Someone in the background is saying "bras and...Someone in the background is saying "bras and free liquor..."<br /><br />(No, now I realize I have mis-heard "Freilicher".)<br /><br />Steve, there are a few abbreviated and/or muddied Frank trax available on Youtube (the one in which Nirvana drowns out his reading of "Lana Turner Is Collapsing" gets a lot of hits from the "awesome" crowd), but I fear I was unable to fill your specific request.<br /><br />(Perhaps you know of secret sources for that?)<br /><br /><br />Walter, who would not be wowed to have a humble blog post on the movies endowed with the blessing of one of the historical geniuses of movie making.<br /><br />(I have been greatly appreciating the fascinating education in the intricacies of sound design and editing to be found <a href="http://www.filmsound.org/murch/murch.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21295615582822347402011-02-27T09:54:09.219-08:002011-02-27T09:54:09.219-08:00Beautiful and true. Or true and beautiful.
Walter...Beautiful and true. Or true and beautiful.<br /><br />Walter M.Walter Murchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01764588580731709555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23102555670272341502011-02-27T08:56:58.914-08:002011-02-27T08:56:58.914-08:00Tom,
"Stars widening their vast indifferent ...Tom,<br /><br />"Stars widening their vast indifferent gaze" <br /><br />-- thanks for these views of living at the movies. . . . <br />(maybe you could post a link to F'OH reading "To the Film Industry in Crisis" with Jane Freilicher, w/ piano accompaniment)<br /><br />2.27<br /><br />grey blackness of sky above black plane<br />of ridge, planet next to moon in leaves<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> because that is what, to be<br /> that still in its one<br /><br /> specific view, toward right<br /> of window, to be from<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />lines of sunlit white clouds on horizonSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54993544722618812472011-02-27T08:48:52.973-08:002011-02-27T08:48:52.973-08:00first strapless bra was worn By Rita Hayworth and ...first strapless bra was worn By Rita Hayworth and was invented by Orson Wells<br /><br />or was it Howard Hughes<br /><br />I think it was Howard Hughes and she wore it in that cowboy movieEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com