Souls for Sale
While Barbara Lamarr’s silent film, Souls for Sale (1923), might be justly labeled a biopic, the life it portrayed is not one from the past but one yet to be fully realized. You were just a ten-year-old girl living a blissful and sheltered life in Vienna when the film...
II. Warhol’s Hedy: Operational Failure
Scene 1 The Operating Room “The film begins with an avant-garde image. It is a static shot and it is only through time and a certain amount of dialogue that we realize that we are seeing a women’s face as she lays on a table, the top of her head towards...Bibliography
Bibliography Aarseth, Espen J. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Altman, Rick. Mastering Coreldraw 7. 3rd Edition. San Francisco: Sybex, 1997. Barton, Ruth. Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film. Lexington: The...
GRAND THEFT AUTO BIOGRAPHY – It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
I love you, yes I do, I love youIf you break my heart I’ll dieSo be sure it’s trueWhen you say I love youIt’s a sin to tell a lieBe sure it’s true when you say I love youIt’s a sin to tell a lieMillions of hearts have been brokenJust...
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Films: Girl, Interrupted
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. The predominant quality of the slow form is viscosity. Experience is thick. Perceptions are thickened and dulled. Time is slow, dripping slowly through the clogged filter of thickened perception. …velocity...
A spy who had already carried out your mission
In the late 1930’s, you fled to America, escaping the clutches of your husband, Fritz Mandl, a munitions manufacturer for the Nazis who held you under virtual house arrest. Jealous and possessive, he took you to all his conferences on weapons systems. Little did he...
Comrade X
In Comrade X, you were allowed to express your intellect, but under an assumed male name: Thompson: You don’t look like Theodore to me Hedy: I was named at the Workers’ Council Thompson: Somebody didn’t have his glasses on. Hedy: It is not glasses. It is the law. ...A Woman Interrupted – Introduction
The Press Kit Generator that transmits elements of your story to the general public often just repeats the tale of the brainy starlet who was unrecognized until now as the inventor of spread spectrum communication. It is a smooth, linear narrative that can provide a...Kitbashing 101
Now that you have reviewed some of the applications for kit-bashing, here is some advice on how to proceed on your own. Kit-bashing involves one part destruction and several parts of synthesis. It is rhizomatic. In A Tbousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari inform us...
AVENGING EXORCIST
Enter Valerie Solanas, the Founding Mother of SCUM (the Society for Cutting Up Men).Solanas is portrayed as emerging from Antheil’s misogynism and Warhol’s mishandling of Hedy–an Avenging Exorcist and Rectifier. The male is a biological accident: ...
I. Warhol’s Hedy: A Spliced Life
Ronald Tavel writes about the experience of having Andy Warhol transmogrify his script, Hedy, into a Factory production. He characterizes his script as “the celluloid saga with which I protested the taking of the actress into custody” (259). His “protest,” however,...
III. Warhol’s Hedy: Trial and Error (Mostly Error)
SCENE 2 Scene 2: “The Arrest Indeterminable Mary, as a store dick (!) busts Hedy [for shoplifting]; but I had to intrude onto the set, crawling all the way, to tap the dumb Ingrid on the leg and remind her what to do. This crawl beneath camera-level intrigued...
COREL Tool Kit
Z Note This is a good page to come back to often to easily find the 10 Corel FUNCTIONS. To get back to an abridged version of this page, you will find it labelled FUNCTIONS on the side menu. What’s in Corel’s Tool Box? If you open the box, you...
Image Capture–and Release!
Grand Theft Identity:Hedy Lamarr Sues Corel Misnamed and often miscast, you would come to lament: “My face has been my misfortune. It has attracted six unsuccessful marriage partners. It has attracted all the wrong people into my boudoir for five...
My Favorite Spy
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Ziegfeld Follies
You get to try out being a walking statue No fashion plate himself! Warhol’s own version of a Ziegfeld...
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Experiment Perilous: The Dark Lady
