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Shards from the Fractured Mirror: The Barefoot Contessa, Fool's Paradise, The Miracle of the Bells, The Player and Super 8

In my latest round-up of blurbs from my forthcoming book The Fractured Mirror I write about The Barefoot Contessa, Fool’s Paradise, The Miracle of the Bells, The Player and Super 8

ShardsNathan RabinJune 1, 2023Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Joseph Mankiewitz, Charlie Day, Steven Spielberg, Tim Robbins, Robert Altman, Frank Sinatra, Fred MacMurray, Ben Hecht

Stanley Donen's Career Got Off to A Roaring Start With On the Town and Ended Bleakly With the Cinematic Sex Crime Blame It on Rio

It’s not unusual for a great filmmaker’s debut to be great and their last film an abomination, but they’re rarely as inconceivably god-awful as Singing in the Rain director Stanley Donen’s final film, 1984’s Blame it on Rio.

First and Last 2.0Nathan RabinJune 21, 2022Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Stanley Donen, Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Demi Moore, Michelle Johnson, statutory rape, gross, yuck