Subscribed. Good article especially the parts on imitation of life. However I think you should give pictures like homecoming, keep your powder dry, and a life of her own a rewatch as Lana is very good in those.
Hi Charles---thanks for subscribing---I wanted to focus on her major work---the pictures you mention are all worthwhile---particularly "A Life of Her Own"---
Famous Argentinian novelist Manuel Puig (The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Rita Hayworth's Treason, etc.) absolutely adored Lana Turner. While living in New York, one night he was expecting his very dear friend cinematographer Néstor Almendros from Paris, who was to spend a week with Manuel while doing some negotiations for a movie. Both were looking forward to those few days together. A few minutes after Néstor's arrival, a Lana Turner movie comes up on the TV screen. When Néstor catches her image, he exclaims in total horror: "Ay, por Dios, esa mujer horrrrrible!!! No la resisto, tan cursi, tan mala actriz!!! Quita eso rápido, por favor!!!" (Oh, my God, that horrible woman, I can't stand her, so tacky, such a bad actress) Listening to him, Manuel falls in a state of shock, and, after recovering his voice, screams, "HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT???!!! SHE WAS A GODDESS!!!!" Needless to say this was the beginning of the most heated altercation on the virtues and sins of Lana. At one point, Puig decided to put and end to it with these words to his dear, dear friend: "WELL!!! This is the end of it... No hater of Lana can have a place under my roof". With that, Almendros proudly pick up his unpacked luggage and left without looking back for the Plaza Hotel, where he stayed the rest of his time in NY. True.
Subscribed. Good article especially the parts on imitation of life. However I think you should give pictures like homecoming, keep your powder dry, and a life of her own a rewatch as Lana is very good in those.
Hi Charles---thanks for subscribing---I wanted to focus on her major work---the pictures you mention are all worthwhile---particularly "A Life of Her Own"---
Famous Argentinian novelist Manuel Puig (The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Rita Hayworth's Treason, etc.) absolutely adored Lana Turner. While living in New York, one night he was expecting his very dear friend cinematographer Néstor Almendros from Paris, who was to spend a week with Manuel while doing some negotiations for a movie. Both were looking forward to those few days together. A few minutes after Néstor's arrival, a Lana Turner movie comes up on the TV screen. When Néstor catches her image, he exclaims in total horror: "Ay, por Dios, esa mujer horrrrrible!!! No la resisto, tan cursi, tan mala actriz!!! Quita eso rápido, por favor!!!" (Oh, my God, that horrible woman, I can't stand her, so tacky, such a bad actress) Listening to him, Manuel falls in a state of shock, and, after recovering his voice, screams, "HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT???!!! SHE WAS A GODDESS!!!!" Needless to say this was the beginning of the most heated altercation on the virtues and sins of Lana. At one point, Puig decided to put and end to it with these words to his dear, dear friend: "WELL!!! This is the end of it... No hater of Lana can have a place under my roof". With that, Almendros proudly pick up his unpacked luggage and left without looking back for the Plaza Hotel, where he stayed the rest of his time in NY. True.