NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. What did I do over the holidays? Hung out with Nicholas Hoult, mostly. Plus Alex Segura's latest and how Netflix has pushed Hollywood to the brink of oblivion. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-62-h…

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: I watched all three of Nicholas Hoult's year-end movies. Plus Alex Segura's ALTER EGO and a chilling article on how Netflix movies are warping Hollywood. Link in the pinned tweet.

Veronica Lake by A.L. “Whitey” Schafer for Saigon (1947). Gown by Edith Head.

Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Café located at 17575 Pacific Coast Highway, has miraculously survived. Although, I read that the properties at the back of the building have not, including the house with the blue garage where Todd’s body was discovered inside her chocolate-colored Lincoln

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. Crime fiction set in the LA of yesteryear and right now, from Scott Phillips and Nick Kolakowski. Plus a fantastic stripped-down mezcal cocktail, and other stuff. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-63-s…

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: Los Angeles skulduggery then (via Scott Phillips) and now (Nick Kolakowski), plus more stuff. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-63-s…

Barbara Stanwyck photographed by Robert Coburn for Stella Dallas (1937). Cinegraf magazine, 1937.

Grace Kelly with old friend, Edith Head, after Kelly became Princess Grace. The wee Prince of Monoco is in the foreground.

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. I find a (tenuous) link between biographies of Johnny Carson and Dorothy Parker, watch a great documentary that you can't see (at least not the way I saw it), and catch up with a killer new crime film. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-64-c…

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: a baffling Johnny Carson bio, an illuminating one about Dorothy Parker, a (literally) singular Brian Eno documentary, and a kickass Belgian thriller. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-64-c…

An obituary for costume designer Phyllis Dalton with a portfolio of her work, including LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and THE PRINCESS BRIDE. nytimes.com/2025/01/31/mov…

Sabrina Carpenter referencing this iconic gown worn by actress Shirley MacLaine in “What a way to go” (1964) designed by Edith Head!

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. It's February. I want to curl up and hide. So I'm not gonna do that. Notes on where I'll be in the next few weeks, mainly co-hosting Noir City Seattle, plus some new movies and a fine use of my favorite new coconut rum. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-65-f…

NEW NEWSLETTER COMING! Noir City Seattle returns, with us as cohosts! Academy Awards notes! And more! Subscribe and receive a free article on Edith Head's noir fashions! reneepatrickbooks.com

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: the movies we're introducing at Noir City Seattle, in conversation with Kate Alice Marshall, PRESENCE, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT, and my new favorite Negroni. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-65-f…

#noircityseattle starts Friday! Eddie Muller will present all festival screenings Feb 14-16. Vince and Rosemarie Keenan take over hosting duties February 17-20. Festival schedule, tickets, and the all-access #noricity pass: bit.ly/3udpja8

Paul Newman with director Martin Ritt, costar Patricia Neal, and costume designer Edith Head on the set of HUD, 1963. The movie was filmed in and around Claude, Texas, with some of the outdoor scenes being filmed on the Goodnight Ranch. The movie was nominated for seven Academy

For #AcademyAwards weekend, a vintage (2017) piece about fashion, the Oscars, and what historically happened when they met. reneepatrickbooks.com/blog/academyaw…

Barbara at the 21st Academy Awards with Robert Taylor and Edith Head, March 24th, 1949. Barbara had been nominated for Best Actress for her role as Leona Stevenson in Sorry, Wrong Number. It was the last of four nominations she would receive. (1/10)

Edith Head’s original costume design for Grace Kelly in Rear Window (1954).