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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Edwina Booth, star of Trader Horn (MGM, 1931)

For the past couple of weeks in the Provo, Utah, Daily Herald, D. Robert Carter has been laying out the highly entertaining life of Edwina Booth, a Provo-born actress who found stardom in the 1931 movie Trader Horn. Part one: Hollywood star began her life in still-standing Provo house, including mysterious divinations by a gypsy naming her “a child of destiny.” Part two: Edwina Booth’s fast and fateful rise to stardom, in which she is discovered by Hollywood star-makers on a Santa Monica beach. The most entertaining installment, discussing the travails of filming in Africa, is part three: Edwina in Africa: Cameras roll and crocodiles snap.

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KPBS “A Way With Words” Episodes

I’ve received a flood of nearly two emails asking for the episodes of the KBPS radio program A Way With Words that I co-hosted earlier in January. Go crazy: Jan. 7 episode (23MB MP3), Jan. 14 episode (23MB MP3). Special thanks to Mrs. Trellis of North Wales. (Source Link)

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Saturday, January 21, 2006

Readers’ No. 1 Detective Agency

Maud has brought aboard a book detective. Genius. Now all those Ask Metafilter queries about books loved but lost in childhood can be resolved. (Source Link)

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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Wristcutters

My friend Tatiana Kelly is a producer of the movie Wristcutters, a selection of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. (Source Link)

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How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet

“My correspondent never wrote back. That, of course, would violate the rules for being an Internet pill, reprinted here in their entirety, courtesy of the Pills of the American Internet Neighborhood Society (PAINS).” (Source Link)

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