By: HILOBROW

EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES vs. M

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.

By: Joshua Glenn

From Abbott, the courtly assassin in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, to the un-manly yet indefatigable Joel Cairo, in The Maltese Falcon, PETER LORRE (1904-64) mocked or otherwise subverted the very concept of […]

By: HILOBROW

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JUNE 21 Today, the name MARY McCARTHY (1912-89) first brings to mind the frank bed-hopping […]