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...anywhere." Her reaction to his praise is typical for her: "Of course, I had been photographing for twenty-five years." In 1931, Martha Graham called Imogen "the only photographer before whom I can create." And Vanity fair sent her to Hollywood to photograph Spencer Tracy, Wallace Beery and James Cagney as part of an article on ugly...
...ports shouldn't have mattered to any of the Gazette's readers, because who in good sense would want to leave the Island? The Vineyard has everything--fresh seafood, clean air, unspoiled beaches, and such interesting people. There are year-round celebrities, like James Taylor, Carly Simon, and James Cagney, but these keep a lower profile than the brash intruders like Frank Sinatra--who arrives annually in yachts 100 feet long and longer. And there are intellectuals to provide some sophistication, ranging from Doris Kearns to Ewart Guinier '33, from Rev. Harvey Cox to Roger Baldwin...
Across the land, many of the old, abandoned monuments to America's past are welcoming visitors as they never did before. There are the august red brick firehouses, the rococo waterworks, the splendiferous banks with marble floors and tellers' grilles that could have come from a Jimmy Cagney heist flick, abandoned churches raised with prayer and artistry, majestic railroad stations, many designed by the finest architects in the U.S. They have been re-antiquated and reinserted into American life with love and ambience-and with food and wine. The fact is that hundreds of classic buildings throughout...
White Heat and Each Dawn I Die, two of Cagney's greatest movies, move into the Welles tomorrow. In Each Dawn Cagney plays a hard-nosed journalist (Cagney's always hard-nosed) who learns what prison life is like first hand...
...Wild One, Brando's archetypal motorcycle movie about alienation on two wheels, is playing at the Welles this week with Jimmy Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandy. The Brando is pretty much of a period piece that's only any good because of its star and because of what it says in retrospect about the 50s. The Cagney film, on the other hand, is the greatest musical biography ever made. Cagney can't sing to save his life, but he sure can boogie. The patriotic clap-trap that fills the footage can go, but the George M. Cohan songs should stick...