Shorts, 10/14.
The AFP reports that the Le Monde Group is in negotiations with Phaidon, which bills itself as “the world’s leading publisher of books on the visual arts,” regarding the sale of Cahiers du cinéma.
Claudette Colbert “had a seamless sort of technique which she learned through years on the stage in the twenties, and that technique is what makes her both a bit predictable and finally a little mysterious,” writes Dan Callahan at the House Next Door. “A new biography of the star has just been published, Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty, by Bernard F Dick, and I read it eagerly; unfortunately, instead of clearing up some of Colbert’s mystery and giving us a sharper picture of her as a person and an actress, this biography creates nothing but confusion.”
Continued reading Shorts, 10/14….
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