Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet...

...Chris Yogerst has reviewed Scott Eyman's new biography of Joan Crawford at his Substack blog, Adventures in the Archive. I was able to have Eyman sign the book at Larry Edmunds Bookshop a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to good luck, I was also able to have Stephen C. Smith sign his new book HITCHCOCK AND HERRMANN the same evening.

...New from Kristen Lopez, author of BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK?: POPCORN DISABILITIES: THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF DISABLED REPRESENTATION IN THE MOVIES. It's just been published by Bloomsbury Academic.

...I'm looking forward to the latest Disneyland history book coming next month from the Old Mill Press: A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR: THE STORY OF THE UPJOHN PHARMACY IN DISNEYLAND by Stephen M. Hall. I've preordered! Thanks to Keith Buczak for the tip.

...Kino Lorber is having a sale through Christmas Eve.

...The Margaret Lockwood film THE WHITE UNICORN (1947), aka BAD SISTER, sounds fascinating. Josephine Botting has reviewed it for the BFI.

...A delightful older Christmas post from the blog Streamliner Memories: "Merry Christmas From the Railroads."

...Spotted last week in the gift shop at The Autry: THRILLERS, CHILLERS, AND KILLERS: RADIO AND FILM NOIR by Frank Krutnik. It was published earlier this year by Rutgers University Press.

...Colin has reviewed Humphrey Bogart in DEADLINE - U.S.A. (1952) at his blog Riding the High Country.

...The Netflix offer to purchase Warner Bros. is the talk of Hollywood this week, but the whole thing raises more questions than it answers.

...New(ish) baking cookbooks which are great Christmas gift ideas: FAT + FLOUR by Nicole Rucker and COOKIES by Vaughn Vreeland for the New York Times.

...At Shadows and Satin Karen Burroughs Hannsbery reviews CRISS-CROSS, Stephen Rebello's new book on the making of Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951). It's from Running Press.

...I also enjoyed Karen's writeup of SHED NO TEARS (1948) starring June Vincent of BLACK ANGEL (1945).

...Notable Passings: French actress Lise Bourdin, whose films included LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (1957), has died at 99...Former child actor John Eimen, also known as Johnny Eimen, has passed on at 76. He worked on many TV shows over a decade, beginning in 1958.

...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please visit my November 22nd column.

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