of cinema, that is! And yeah, the time is now! It's Pisces season!
As a Pisces myself (born March 2, just like Lou Reed and Ricky Ricardo), I can assure you that we're loving, caring, deeply artistic souls, and, yes, often alcoholic sex addicts, but that's to be expected in this crazy world.
Sounding like the church bells of the damned throughout the land of Erich's favorite blogs are celebrations of Pisceans and their cinematic legacies:
Kimberly of Cinebeats has been delving deeply into the canonical nether-regions of one of cinema's great sets of lushes, I mean lovers, Richard Burton and Liz Taylor (b. Feb. 27). Today's special, an in-depth portrait of BOOM!
I foolishly sold my VHS of BOOM! (for a small fortune) a few years ago (it's currently OOP in any format). So while we wait impatiently for it to turn up in the dregs of some Liz and Dick boxed set of the future, we can still at least netflix DOCTOR FAUSTUS, and you will want to once you see Liz all done up in silver face/body paint (like Shirley Eaton in GOLDFINGER, only silver) in Kimberly's awesome FAUSTUS screen shots.
In addition to her praise of Desi Arnaz, the mercurial Kim Morgan celebrates her love for John Garfield (b. March 4) over at her Sunset Gun. I wish I could pipe in on Garfield, but I've seen criminally few of his films. Thanks to Kim, all that can now change...
A 1970's man like Jeremy Richey knows action speaks louder than words, that's why his Harry Moseby Confidential is having a birthday tribute to Fred Williamson (March 5) with posters! posters! posters!
An ADDENDUM LINK -- after C. Jerry Kutner's comment to the original version of this blog (see: comments!), I hastily, lovingly and dare I say verbosely, paid tribute to Dean Stockwell (b. March 5) over on ACIDEMIC!
So there you have it, just a handful of the great Pisces actors you probably wont even see mentioned on 98% of the internet sites that traffic in such stuff... and I'll leave you with this quote from NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, starring Richard Burton: "(drunkenly translating the oaths sworn at blonde dullard Hank by Maxine's beach boys): "He says you're a brave man with a fish... if it's a dead fish." In other words, nobody messes with us Pisces... except may Gemini, Scorpio, or the elusive Capricorn!
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Pisces is a Sign for lovers
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TCM is hosting a tribute today to Dean Stockwell and Rex Harrison, both of whom were born on March 5th.
So, for that matter, was I.
Dean Stockwell! I thought he looked like a Pisces. So luminous and brilliant in the movie version of LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, getting drunk with older brother Jason Robards.
Thanks much for the mention! There are a lot of fabulous Pisces. Liz has some good company here.
I'm an elusive Capricorn myself and I share my bday with that drunken sex addicted writer Henry Miller.
I share mine with Eugene O'Neill and . . . Oscar Wilde.
I've never quite known what to make of that.
And then there's the whole subject of Piscean directors. Pier Paolo Passolini was born on my birthday (March 5th). Any man who can find equal inspiration in Jesus Christ (THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW) and the Marquis De Sade (SALO) is definitely an artist after my heart. Another great Pisces, Luis Bunuel (Feb 22), linked Jesus and De Sade in his L'AGE D'OR.
Other seminal Piscean directors include Bernardo Bertolucci (March 16), Vincente Minnelli and Guy Maddin (both Feb 28).
Damn! Us Pisces are an awesome lot.
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