You may recall Julie Taymor’s work from Frida and The Lion King. Ms. Taymor, known for her lavish set designs and innovative special effects is a visual wunderkind. Two of Rita’s favorite sequences in Frida, involves the horrific bus accident recreated by creepy puppet skeletons dancing across the screen and the operating table. [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 7, 2008
Rita highly recommends…Auntie Mame.
Auntie Mame directed by Morton DaCosta. Starring: Rosalind Russell as Mame Dennis, Forrest Tucker as Beauregard Burnside, Coral Browne as Vera Charles, Jan Handzlik as the young Patrick Dennis, Joanna Barnes as Gloria Upson, Fred Clark as Dwight Babcock, and Roger Smith as the grown Patrick Dennis.
“Live! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers [...]
