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Self-Styled Siren
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A lover of classic movies, New York City, old books, vintage clothing, French perfumes and classical music finds a small, cushioned Internet windowseat from which to harangue her patient audience.
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Recent Posts
That Siren Behind the Curtain
Via Lou Lumenick's blog, I can now inform my patient readers that as part of the promotion of the Shadows of Russia series on Turner Classic Movies, there will be a showing of the very rare, very weird Mission to Moscow at the Rose Theater at the Bro...
Life with Zsa Zsa, Or the Importance of Closet Space
Joy oh joy. The Siren has found her copy of George Sanders' Memoirs of a Professional Cad. This was purchased some months ago for $95 on Amazon and it was worth every penny. The Siren let out a whoop of joy when she uncovered it in a box otherwise de...
The Great Garrick (1937) and It\'s Love I\'m After (1937)
Greetings, patient readers. The saga of the Siren's Internet access would not make a good movie, unless you consider it compelling cinema to watch a woman screaming at a voice-recognition system because it doesn't recognize her voice. Today the Siren...
"It may only be four walls and a couple of nail kegs, but it will always be home to me."
Muriel Blandings: I refuse to endanger the lives of my children in a house with less than four bathrooms.Jim: For 1,300 dollars they can live in a house with three bathrooms and ROUGH IT.The Siren is changing lodgings this weekend and thus will be of...
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
A movie blogger urging readers to go see The Bicycle Thief on a big screen is like a book reviewer urging people to check out this Faulkner fellow. But so perfect was the Siren's experience of this masterpiece, which is playing in a remastered versio...
Letty Lynton: Pounce.
Via Lou Lumenick: If you move quickly, you can see the legendarily unavailable Letty Lynton at Youtube. The Siren agrees with Lou on all points. A must for Pre-Code and Joan fans. The Siren and Operator 99 of Allure both watched last night and the mo...
