On the Transparency of Don Lockwood’s House
This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series Essays / Analyses.Alain Masson considers (somewhat densely) the “penetrability and transparency” of Don Lockwood’s house in this essay from the academic journal Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 5.2 (1990). The piece was originally published in Positif 331 (1988): 50-54. More recently, Masson has written a book on Gene Kelly (currently only in...
Read MoreDon Lockwood Killed in Freak Auto Accident
Posted over at Jim Lane’s Cinedrome, these “Items from Cosmo Brown’s Scrapbook” are, I believe, the most bizarre Singin’ in the Rain-related material I’ve ever come across. The (fake) letters and memos from Kathy Selden, Phoebe Dinsmore (“round tones!”), Dora Bailey, and R.F. Simpson discuss, among other events, the accidental death of Don Lockwood (struck by a taxi cab!), the nixing of The Dueling Cavalier, and Selden’s apparent breach of...
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