Saturday, January 5, 2008

Cinema Still Life: Among the Ruins




In 1960 the movie palace The Roxy in Manhattan came down. It had opened in 1927 showing a Gloria Swanson movie, The Love of Sunya. Here's Gloria, snatching a final photo op among its ruins.


P.S. - Things have been a little busy around my work and home this week and will continue into next week but I hope to get up my next book/film comparison soon as well as my review of the atomic bomb documentaries. And I'll have a few intermingling posts as well as Oscar snubs every other day or so.


As always, click to enlarge