This article contains The United States vs. Billie Holiday spoilers.
Federal drug enforcement was created for the express purpose of persecuting Billie Holiday. Director Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday focuses a cinematic microscope on the events, but a much larger picture is visible just outside the lens. Holiday’s best friend and one-time manager Maely Dufty told mourners at the funeral that Billie was murdered by a conspiracy orchestrated by the narcotics police, according to Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari. The book also said Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, was a particularly virulent racist who hounded “Lady Day” throughout the 1940s and drove her to her death in the 1950s.
This is corroborated in Billie, a 2020 BBC documentary directed by James Erskine, and Alexander Cockburn’s book Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press,...
Federal drug enforcement was created for the express purpose of persecuting Billie Holiday. Director Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday focuses a cinematic microscope on the events, but a much larger picture is visible just outside the lens. Holiday’s best friend and one-time manager Maely Dufty told mourners at the funeral that Billie was murdered by a conspiracy orchestrated by the narcotics police, according to Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari. The book also said Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, was a particularly virulent racist who hounded “Lady Day” throughout the 1940s and drove her to her death in the 1950s.
This is corroborated in Billie, a 2020 BBC documentary directed by James Erskine, and Alexander Cockburn’s book Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press,...
- 2/26/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Food is often used as visual shorthand for sex at the movies – but, as in life, their real relationship is much messier
Fifty years ago came the release of a film with one of the most famous sex scenes in the history of cinema. Yet the couple don't even touch, let alone take their clothes off. In Tony Richardson's Tom Jones, Albert Finney and Joyce Redman share a wordless meal which becomes a kind of foreplay. They stare into each other's eyes as they lustily strip meat off bones, swallow whole oysters and stuff juicy pears into their dripping mouths. It is obvious from the first lick of the lips where this will end. And it's not washing up.
Food and sex seem as natural a screen coupling as Bogart and Bacall. Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger exploring the sexy potential of a fridge's contents in 9½ Weeks. The lusty wedding...
Fifty years ago came the release of a film with one of the most famous sex scenes in the history of cinema. Yet the couple don't even touch, let alone take their clothes off. In Tony Richardson's Tom Jones, Albert Finney and Joyce Redman share a wordless meal which becomes a kind of foreplay. They stare into each other's eyes as they lustily strip meat off bones, swallow whole oysters and stuff juicy pears into their dripping mouths. It is obvious from the first lick of the lips where this will end. And it's not washing up.
Food and sex seem as natural a screen coupling as Bogart and Bacall. Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger exploring the sexy potential of a fridge's contents in 9½ Weeks. The lusty wedding...
- 10/24/2013
- by Julian Baggini
- The Guardian - Film News
Showing some love to her adoring fans, Olivia Wilde took some time to field questions during a chat on Reddit on Thursday (August 29).
In an effort to promote her new flick “Drinking Buddies,” the “Incredible Burt Wonderstone” starlet teamed up with director Joe Swanberg for the Q&A session.
When asked, “What does it take to be a world champion parallel parker?” Wilde simply replied with one word- “Balls.”
Wilde also explained the meaning of her “All Love, A” wrist tattoo. "It's in honor of my late uncle Alexander Cockburn. He was a dear dear friend. The tattoo is the last phrase he wrote to me. All love, A. It reminds me to love everyone, just as he did."
As for how she handles her booze, Olivia noted, "Wilde until drink 7 and then I fall asleep and become Olivia Milde… Zzzzzz."
After signing off, Wilde tweeted, "That was intense. Thanks for asking great questions.
In an effort to promote her new flick “Drinking Buddies,” the “Incredible Burt Wonderstone” starlet teamed up with director Joe Swanberg for the Q&A session.
When asked, “What does it take to be a world champion parallel parker?” Wilde simply replied with one word- “Balls.”
Wilde also explained the meaning of her “All Love, A” wrist tattoo. "It's in honor of my late uncle Alexander Cockburn. He was a dear dear friend. The tattoo is the last phrase he wrote to me. All love, A. It reminds me to love everyone, just as he did."
As for how she handles her booze, Olivia noted, "Wilde until drink 7 and then I fall asleep and become Olivia Milde… Zzzzzz."
After signing off, Wilde tweeted, "That was intense. Thanks for asking great questions.
- 8/30/2013
- GossipCenter
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