Not So Saintly After All: A Sad Star, Strongly Sexed

Audrey Hepburn moved through her movies like a mournful swan, unsure of her own beauty. For years she was the anti-Marilyn, the pensive garden princess preferred by people who pined for the gentility and grace that had supposedly been driven out of Hollywood’s Edenic garden by Monroe and the overtly sexual stars that followed in Read More

Peckinpah’s Obsessions: Aging Men, and Marriage

When a director has been as condemned and lionized as Sam Peckinpah has, it’s inevitable that the legend obscures the work.

So rather than add to the heap of writing that already exists about Peckinpah’s balletic violence, or about the stunted career and mangled movies caused by his own intransigence as well as the stupidity Read More

Peckinpah’s Obsessions: Aging Men, and Marriage

When a director has been as condemned and lionized as Sam Peckinpah has, it’s inevitable that the legend obscures the work.

So rather than add to the heap of writing that already exists about Peckinpah’s balletic violence, or about the stunted career and mangled movies caused by his own intransigence as well as the Read More