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...feeling like a lumberjack." Bryan believes the search for authenticity is echoed elsewhere in the clothing business. "It's foremost a reaction to the frivolous buying spree society has been on for the past few years," he says, noting that other old-school unsexy but rugged American brands like Woolrich, Pendleton and Red Wing Shoes have become fashion darlings this season. "People are looking for something with a secure footing, with history." (Read "What College Students Don't Know...
...blown out all those candles for deceased artistes Marlene Dietrich, Richard Rodgers, Ogden Nash, Cornell Woolrich, S.J. Perelman and Ted ?Dr. Seuss? Geisel. Two more honorees, Leni Riefenstahl and Bob Hope, were still alive when they got reached triple digits, though they have since ceded to mortality. I used to unearth these milestones only when I?d hear of some media cross-promotion - a tributary rivulet of books, CDs or DVDs - which often meant playing hectic catch-up. Now I go to the Internet Movie Database at the start of a year and see whose centenaries are imminent. (Click...
...first, an introduction to the scope and aims of the enterprise. That came in under 2,000 words. The pieces averaged about 2,500 words for the first few months, then just grew like Pinocchio?s nose. The longest column was on a dozen films made from Woolrich novels and stories. That one (it was the second of two Woolrich pieces - I do get carried away) ran more than 7,600, and I fear that, somewhere off in cyberspace, it?s still running...
...Jean Renoir said every author writes the same story over and over. Woolrich surely did. He?d latch onto a plot, then refine it, try correcting its flaws, in a later novel. In ?Bride? he created a vengeance machine, a killer of all killers; in the 1948 ?Rendezvous in Black? his bitter protagonist decides to kill, not the five men responsible for his girlfriend?s death, but the person each of the presumed guilty men loves most, so that they will live out their lives in grief, as he has. (In 1972 Italian director Umberto Lenzi filmed the novel - without...
...story of a man in love with two women who are the same woman, and one of whom is dead - and who finally decides that he can love the second woman even though she impersonated the first woman and was responsible for her death. (Hope that?s clear.) But Woolrich?s novel came first...