Silent but deadly!FilmAs Ken Russell’s quasi-biopic is released on Blu-ray, even the director noted that Valentino, possibly the silent era’s biggest star, was best appreciated in fiction
Rodolfo Guglielmi was born in 1895 in a farmhouse in Castellaneta, southern Italy. He died 31 years later in New York City, a heart-throb known to millions as Rudolph Valentino. The combination of beauty and an early death can transform any star into a legend. Read More...
Lawrence Rainey’s 2005 work Revisiting The Waste Land advanced new readings for TS Eliot’s masterpieceLawrence Rainey’s 2005 work Revisiting The Waste Land advanced new readings for TS Eliot’s masterpieceOther livesLiterary criticismObituaryLawrence Rainey obituaryMy PhD supervisor, Lawrence Rainey, who has died aged 66, was a leading literary critic and an authority on Anglo-American Modernism. He wrote and edited groundbreaking critical studies and editions, and was co-founder and co-editor of Modernism/modernity, the award-winning journal of the Modernist Studies Association. Read More...
MusicRedfoo under fire over ‘misogynist’ song Literally I Can’tUS rapper defends appearance in new Play-N-Skillz video as ‘satirical’ as pressure builds to sack him from Australia’s X Factor US rapper and judge on Australia’s X Factor Redfoo has responded to online backlash for appearing on a new song that has been widely condemned as misogynist.
Literally I Can’t, by production duo Play-N-Skillz, also features rappers Lil Jon and Enertia McFly, and is accompanied by a video set at a frat house party. Read More...
