Premio Dardos
About a week ago, Moira Finnie of Skeins of Thought passed on a Premio Dardos (Dardos Award) to the Alternative Film Guide.
In her note, Moira explains that the Premio Dardos is given in "recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. These stamps were created with the intention of promoting fraternization between bloggers, a way of showing affection and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web."
Well, many thanks!
Those who accept the award, are supposed to pass it on to five other cultural, ethical, literary (or at least literate), and cool blogs. As altfg’s editor, here are my five choices:
Allan Ellenberger’s blog, which has numerous posts on Los Angeles and the city’s film history, in addition to updates on his Miriam Hopkins (above) biographical project. Allan, with whom I’ve had the pleasure of splitting a 45" four-cheese pizza (or was it barbecue chicken?) and a 10 lb. chocolate cake or two, is an expert in LA history, cemetery history, ancestry history, and Hollywood scandal history. Coming from a very pious and austere background, however, on his blog Allan will talk about graves and grandparents but not about scandals. Or at least not enough. (You gotta get him drunk to hear the goodies.)
Christina Rice’s Ann Dvorak blog. Ann Dvorak was an up-and-coming star in Warner Bros. films of the 1930s, but somewhere along the way she fell by the wayside while Bette Davis and Kay Francis fought for the Queen of the Lot crown. Dvorak should be better remembered, and Rice’s Ann Dvorak homage is well worth frequent recurring visits.
Aricia [Gavriel]’s Gay Book Blog. Well, it’s cultural, literary, and deals with some pretty subversive themes. Can’t think of better reasons to recommend a blog. So what if Aricia enjoyed Christopher Bram’s Hold Tight — about hunky sailors, evil spies, and a queeny houseboy at a male brothel — whereas I found it a total mess? (In fact, I disliked the nominal heroes so intensely I was rooting for the psycho spies.) What matters is that those off-the-beaten-track, non-mainstream books are being discussed.
GreenCine Daily. Formerly David Hudson’s blog, GreenCine Daily is now in the capable hands of Aaron Hills. (So capable, in fact, that I thought it was still David’s blog.) GreenCine has been a film information beacon for years. And it remains as thorough and informative as ever. David, by the way, is now at IFC’s The Daily.
Lloyd Fonvielle’s mardecortezbaja.com. Musings on films, culture, life, and politics, including a good-riddance post when that walking cataclysm named George W. Bush (finally!) left the White House. I should also mention that a couple of years ago I was looking at mardecortezbaja and began reading a post about Psycho, in which the author explained how a nine-hour version of the film existed but had been cut by the studio (a la Greed) , etc. etc. It sounded too strange, of course, but I naively (st*pidly?) inquired about that statement elsewhere. I was then bluntly reminded it was April Fool’s Day. Talk about a humbling experience.
Miriam Hopkins photo: Allan Ellenberger Collection.
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