Subject:

Al Roberts

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    Noir Femme Fatale: Ann Savage, 1922-2008

    Except for one performance in a dozen-year acting career, she was as forgotten in Hollywood as a lost pawn-shop ticket. But in that single role of a hitchhiker in Edgar Ulmer's 1945 film noir classic, Detour, Ann Savage forever branded the character of Vera into the pop imagination. Detour was a B-m ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    February 27, 2003

    Urban Dervish: L.A. Bamba

    A Senegalese saint at UCLA

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