"Partway through, I had to stop speaking. I was overwhelmed by hope and futility. It was a mixture of potency I’d never experienced before — and it silenced me."
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"Partway through, I had to stop speaking. I was overwhelmed by hope and futility. It was a mixture of potency I’d never experienced before — and it silenced me."
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1960s facade of the Sing Lee Theatre.
Piles of film reels and film cans.
On our blog, Harvard scholar Janet Louie delves into the history of the Sing Lee Theatre, which opened in 1962 in L.A.’s Chinatown and became a hub for Chinese-language cinema and opera. A significant collection of films was rescued from the shuttered theater by the Archive in 2016: ucla.in/4qmQZB9
14.01.2026 23:08 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1"I? Too much vision and not enough allure."
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Hideko
October 2012 — December 2025
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gardening and harvesting peaches with the bees, butterflies, and goldfinches
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in the garden: kyuri, nasu, watermelon, peach
11.07.2025 03:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I often think that Ann Harding's style of acting was about 40 years ahead of its time. From Double Harness (1933). (Although that meal she's fixing looks pretty awful.)
05.07.2025 18:00 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0the kind of tidbit I live for: Lubitsch ordered hourly malted milkshakes for Jeanette MacDonald on the set of The Love Parade
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With Janet Leigh in 1952 during filming of ‘The Naked Spur’
Anthony Mann, Director, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1906, in San Diego, California
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June currants gathered in my oldest bowl, chipped long ago in France
15.06.2025 03:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0sunset in the pacific northwest: 8:52 p.m.
01.06.2025 01:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0night clipping: chive blossoms
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life in a plum blossom town
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starting to bloom: pruned branches from the garden (peach, cherry)
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"The cynicism is sort of disappointed romanticism at heart — someone [critic Andrew Sarris] once described it as whipped cream that’s gotten slightly curdled."
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"Good luck, Sunny-side."
28.01.2025 02:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0my ideal: a small mountain town (population 578) is screening the latest Mike Leigh
23.01.2025 04:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0home is where the mille-feuille nabe is
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"Like that,"
26.08.2024 02:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"I once read an essay by a writer who was asked to imagine an ideal career, and he replied that he would like to be responsible for just a brief stretch, perhaps 200 yards or so, of a river. I think this would have charmed Claire utterly, she would have safely put her life in that author’s hands."
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