8 MOMENTS I TRULY LOVED KATHARINE HEPBURN
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8 MOMENTS I TRULY LOVED KATHARINE HEPBURN

In honor of Katharine Hepburn’s birthday this week, I’ve been thinking about some of my favorite KH moments both on and off-screen. There are certain obvious snippets people remember her for outside of her movies: her abiding love of trousers in a markedly skirt-wearing portion of the century (pants were more comfortable, damnit!), her less relatable and more question-mark-inducing love of Spencer Tracy (Why, Katharine? Why?), and her drawling, haughty manner of speech. Quite honestly, there are many Golden Age actresses I prefer to watch most of the time–she is often a little too “in your face” for me–but there…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELLA!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELLA!

Okay, I know this isn’t strictly movie-related, but in honor of the late, great Ella Fitzgerald’s would-be 98th birthday today, I felt a post was warranted anyway. I enjoy most kinds of music, but at the end of the day my heart belongs to the jazz and “easy listening” tunes from the 1940s-1960s. It’s just hard to top those beautiful old standards penned by the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and the other fantastic composers of the Great American Songbook. While many artists recorded their own versions of these songs, my favorite artist from this period will always be Ella…
The Way We Were: The Agony and The Ecstasy
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The Way We Were: The Agony and The Ecstasy

So if you have been keeping up with The Good, The Bad, and The Podcast, you are probably aware that today we released our ninth episode: Female Singers Moonlighting as Actresses (or some other really, really long title that you can thank Charles for—BAZINGA!). In this episode we discuss, among other things, the Streisand classic The Way We Were (1973). Now, you might be asking yourself why I felt the need to write even MORE about this movie after you’ve already heard me blather on about it for ten minutes during the podcast, and my answer to you is this:…