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Cantara Christopher

Aug 9, 2022

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COLD OPEN

a tale of hollywood

Cantara Christopher

Written by Cantara Christopher

Memoirist. Musicologist. Retired movie actress. I write about US+UK movies / books / music / radio+tv / culture. https://patreon.com/cantarachristopher

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Operatic Soprano Maria Ewing (1950–2022) Gives Richard Strauss’s Salome the Full Monty and Sings…

There are 3 naked ladies on my blog. This is one of them.

2 min readApr 22, 2021

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A Poet from Hollywood: Love, Insanity, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the Creative Process // Chapter 11

[IN WHICH STEPHEN IMAGINES KILLING NAOMI; WE FIND JAKE GYLLENHAAL’S OLD HOME: LEARN ABOUT EMANUEL SWEDENBORG; AND MY PORN PAST IS REVEALED]

27 min readOct 28, 2022

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Mrs Maisel and Lenny Bruce

To all the randy fellow fans of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Amazon, 2017–2023): Are you ‘shipping this couple so bad like me? Here, by the…

1 min readMar 19, 2022

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Before the Oscars, 2023

More racism at the Oscars this year

3 min readMar 11

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