Three's not a crowd

Young man with a horn is one of the first bigger budget Hollywood films to look at the world of Jazz music. Directed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz it features a number of great performances - Lauren Bacall, especially, in a defining role. Kirk Douglas plays the part of the young man with the horn - Bix Beiderbecke (Hoagy Carmichael and, briefly, Louis Armstrong, both feature in the film along with other musicians - Harry James dubbed the musical parts for Douglas.) The film also features Doris Day at her inimitable best.

The way I water walk...

This was stolen from Rachael Wadham's MySpace site It's interesting from many different perspectives not least in the self-serving behaviours of the presenter and his audience.

Pick this up on south of south street...

Kingly Books is a site dedicated to books, film and the graphic arts. A closer look at its archive - and the wealth of material for perusal - will inform and engage both devotees and the casual observer alike. Their fiction imprint, Kingly Reprieve, is to be applauded for re-publishing two classic fiction titles from the early 1930's/40's. Fans of Hard boiled detective fiction will love Sam Fuller's cynical take on the tabloid newspaper industry of his day. It's a thrilling read - reminiscent of Nathanael West's similarly barbed and excoriating 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' its characters, both individually and collectively, exemplify the amorality and, indeed, brutality employed with impunity by those determined to get just one more story...