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  • Aging MGM child star Rooney another close off-screen friend was also ideal for the role of jockey Mi Taylor, and actress Anne Revere stands out as Velvet's understanding mother, winning her an Oscar.

    John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star John Farr 2011

  • Aging MGM child star Rooney another close off-screen friend was also ideal for the role of jockey Mi Taylor, and actress Anne Revere stands out as Velvet's understanding mother, winning her an Oscar.

    John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star John Farr 2011

  • Insley is Club Velvet's attorney, as luck would have it.

    Governor Wimpy's Very Bad Year 2010

  • Carl and Velvet's interior design taste was clearly similar to that of Jimmy Saville and Lily Savage and I considered putting my sunglasses back on.

    Thing To Do In Deptford When You're Dead. 2010

  • TERRY GROSS, host: The statement, usually ascribed to Peter Buck of REM, that only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground's albums in the 1960s but every one of them started a band also holds true for a Southern band whose albums in the 1970s sold even fewer copies than the Velvet's, but whose posthumous reputation is nearly just as large.

    Big Star: The Unluckiest Band In America 2010

  • TERRY GROSS, host: The statement, usually ascribed to Peter Buck of REM, that only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground's albums in the 1960s but every one of them started a band also holds true for a Southern band whose albums in the 1970s sold even fewer copies than the Velvet's, but whose posthumous reputation is nearly just as large.

    Big Star: The Unluckiest Band In America 2010

  • Shot by "Blue Velvet's" Frederick Elmes and designed by Mark Friedberg, who collaborated on the hallucinatory sets for "Across the Universe," "Synecdoche" was a challenging first project.

    New Photos From Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Aging MGM child star Rooney (another close off-screen friend) was also ideal for the role of jockey Mi Taylor, and actress Anne Revere stands out as Velvet's understanding mother, winning her an Oscar.

    John Farr: On Her Birthday, The Best Elizabeth Taylor Movies By Farr 2009

  • Waters has written at least one enjoyable novel since Tipping the Velvet's publication, but it's a great pity that she felt the need to inflict this unbaked first effort on an unsuspecting public.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • Waters has written at least one enjoyable novel since Tipping the Velvet's publication, but it's a great pity that she felt the need to inflict this unbaked first effort on an unsuspecting public.

    2006, A Year in Books: Worst Reads of the Year Abigail Nussbaum 2006

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