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Saturday, June 19, 2021

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:55 pm

Continues.

Thursday, December 3, 2020

A Veritable Frame

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:21 pm

A search in this journal for “Jean Brodie” suggests a review —

“A professor is all-powerful, Gareth liked to tell his daughter, he puts
‘a veritable frame around life,’ and ‘organizes the unorganizable.
Nimbly partitions it . . . .'”

Review of Special Topics in Calamity Physics , Aug. 13, 2006

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Mystery Woman

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:45 am

From a book review quoted here in yesterday’s post
of 12:41 PM ET, “Special Topics” —

“That teacher, Hannah Schneider, has the magnetism of
Miss Jean Brodie and the film-noir mystique of Lauren Bacall.
When Blue meets her, in a ‘Hitchcock cameo,’ by the frozen-food
section at a grocery store, she falls under her spell. ‘She had an
elegant sort of romantic, bone-sculpted face, one that took well to
both shadows and light,’ Blue recalls. ‘Most extraordinary though
was the air of a Chateau Marmont bungalow about her, a sense
of RKO, which I’d never before witnessed in person.’ Hannah
teaches a course on cinema in a room lined with posters . . . .

From a Facebook page related to the death yesterday morning at
Webster University of the teacher of a course on cinema —

“I need a photo opportunity . . . .” — Paul Simon

The title of the film in the cover photo above is not without relevance.

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