July 2011
June 2011
Towering and Imperfect: A Portrait of Clarence...
“For five stormy, pivotal decades, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was a towering figure in U.S. jurisprudence and politics. He served as defense lawyer for the people most hated and feared by respectable society and was indeed, as his friend Lincoln Steffens wrote in 1932, an “attorney for the damned.”
At the turn of the 20th century when the government routinely threw its...
Fellows and and "Petting" - 1925 Flappers Talk...
“Last summer I was at a student conference of young women comprised of about eight hundred college girls from the middle western states. The subject of petting was very much on their minds, both as to what attitude they should take toward it with the younger girls…and also how much renunciation of this pleasurable pastime was required of them…
So far as I could judge from...
Chaplin's "Unwitting Witnesses to Cinema History"
“Angelenos take it for granted that at some point in the near future, their lives will be interrupted by a film shoot. Whether it’s traffic blocked by location trucks, cables outside an old downtown hotel, reflectors and klieg lights in front of a favorite bar or a strange sight on the lawn of a Craftsman house in Pasadena, location shooting is part of L.A.-area life. Early on, in...
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