This Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s ground-breaking Frankenstein movie, and it’s finally coming out on DVD in a restored print. Frankenstein’s actors were paid $5 a day and hid the fact that they were slumming in movies. The restored DVD print of the first [...]
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Thomas Edison’s 1910 film “Frankenstein” Coming to DVD
An EP Alert: a Sony Reader review
I interrupt scheduled programming to give my loyal readers a peek into my semi-personal life. Last month I was given the opportunity to test drive a Sony Reader for sixty days courtesy of the smart, wicked and smartly wicked Smart Bitches, Sony, and Harlequin Books. Unfortunately the PRS-700 has bee[...]
The Spirit of Ecstasy
One of the world’s premiere automobile brands, Rolls Royce conjures the image of wealth, class and elegance. Founded in 1906 by Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls, the firm soon became entwined with the 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, Conservative MP and motoring enthusiast, and the Hampshir[...]






