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Jun. 16th, 2009

mmmgirl

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Here?s a fun little widget for anyone with an interest in witchcraft. A daily updated glossary, ?Witchipedia? is brought to us by Katherine Howe whose novel, The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane, has just been published in the US. It will be released soon in the UK under a different title, The Lost Book Of Salem. I hope to review it here in future, along with a selection of other recent novels on the history of magic and persecution ? a topic much on my mind these days, as it is the also the subject of my current work in progress.

Jun. 10th, 2009

mmmgirl

American Bombshells: Marilyn and Jean Harlow (Cross-Posted)

American Bombshells: Marilyn and Jean Harlow, my latest addition to the ‘Marilyn’s Heroes’ series, can now be read at Immortal Marilyn. While researching and writing the article, I was struck by the empathy Marilyn felt for Harlow and the string of coincidences and uncanny parallels between their lives.

Jean Harlow was the original ‘blonde bombshell’ and a gifted comedienne. Her films are quite hard to find but are worth tracking down on Amazon.com, and are regularly screened on TCM. For further reading, I can recommend David Stenn’s Bombshell (for his definitive text) and Eve Golden’s Platinum Girl (for the pictures.) And online, film historian Lisa Burks has created ‘The Platinum Page’, an excellent website and blog devoted to Harlow’s life and work.

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