Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.
— Jeanine Basinger
The most restlessness Jeanine Basinger quotes that are little-known but priceless
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible.
You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.
In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.
A small town is automatically a world of pretense.
Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out.
Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful book delivers almost as much fun as the film itself.
... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.