http://www.metafilter.com/tags/bio Posts tagged with 'bio' at MetaFilter. Thu, 03 May 2007 12:04:34 -0800 Thu, 03 May 2007 12:04:34 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/60857/Pop%2Dyour%2Dfunk <a href="http://www.djfriendly.co.uk/more_arthur.php?PHPSESSID=b85999859e6a03b077fbba7754af8ed8">Disco cellist Arthur Russell</a> <a href="http://www.arthurrussellmovie.com/ ">is the subject of a new documentary</a>. MP3s for those who don't know him: <a href="http://www.oneloudernyc.com/2007/04/its-been-oh-so-quiet-here.html ">Sidebar here</a>, <a href="http://americanathlete.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-need-sunlight.html">here</a>, <a href="http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/04/26/ven-a-tatuarme-primavera-en-el-cuello/">here (photo may be NSFW)</a>, <a href="http://hypem.com/search/arthur%20russell/1/">more here</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60857 Thu, 03 May 2007 12:04:34 -0800 arthurrussell bio dance dead documentary film free fun mp3 music musician summer klangklangston http://www.metafilter.com/53108/2006%2Dbiomedical%2Dimage%2Daward%2Dnominees <a href="http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/bia/">2006 biomedical image award nominees.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53108 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:42:31 -0800 bio biomedical image medical delmoi http://www.metafilter.com/30253/Lulu <a href="http://www.pandorasbox.com/">Louise Brooks:</a> With a new biopic <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=638&u=/nm/20031210/en_nm/film_campbell_dc&printer=1" title="Neve Campbell has bought the rights to the ''Lulu'' screenplay and intends to star as Brooks">in the works</a>, the spotlight will soon return to this silent-movie legend. The <a href="http://www.pandorasbox.com/louisebrooks/pix/portraits/jazzbaby/jazzbaby03.jpg" title="Characters whose look is based on hers include Cyd Charisse in ''Singin' in the Rain'' and Catherine Zeta-Jones's Velma Kelly in ''Chicago''">beautiful</a> and enchanting Brooks set the mold for the stereotypical bobbed-hair flapper of the 1920s, though her Hollywood work is largely forgettable. Her most famous film, <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018737/" title="In which she plays the insatiable Lulu. Followed by ''Diary of a Lost Girl,'' also with Pabst">Pandora’s Box</a></em> <small>[<a href="http://www.geocities.com/debstj/contents.html" title="Geocities link. Silent movie scripts are quite different from modern scripts!">script</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021008115007/http://www.geocities.com/debstj/contents.html" title="Non-Geocities: Wayback Machine cache (keeps links straight)">mirror</a>]</small> (directed by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0655065/" title="Sometimes considered the greatest director of German cinema">G.W. Pabst</a>) was filmed in Germany. She didn't make a successful transition to talkies, and after a long reclusive period, she had a second career writing <a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/brooks_lulu.html" title="This book, ''Lulu in Hollywood,'' is a collection of her essays. Also note the detailed biography from the same publishers by Barry Paris">essays</a>. -- For further reading, Ken Tynan's 1979 essay <a href="http://www.geocities.com/Paris/6170/tynan.html" title="Geocities link - Google doesn't cache the whole thing">"The Girl in the Black Helmet"</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.psykickgirl.com/lulu/girllulu.html" title="Non-Geocities link, but not well-formatted. This version might also be edited">mirror</a>]</small> in the <em>New Yorker</em> gives an excellent overview of her life. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.30253 Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:08:09 -0800 bio biography LouiseBrooks movies silentmovies stopgap