Inside Daisy Clover has urgent news to impart: Hollywood is full of phoneys. Beneath its sparkling veneer, Tinseltown is a snake pit filled with sycophants and fiends who pay millions for your smile, while also stealing your soul. This revelation isn’t particularly shocking, or much of a revelation, but the film repeats it endlessly and […]
Love is for the Very Young: ‘Splendor in the Grass’ (1961)
A gushing waterfall. Teenagers kiss, the torrent of their adolescent passion barely held in check. Abandon all hope of subtlety, all ye who watch this movie. Deanie Loomis (Natalie Wood) and Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty, in his screen debut) are high school sweethearts living in claustrophobic small-town Kansas in the late 1920s. It’s the sort […]