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Showing posts with label hollywood. Show all posts
Sunday, August 20, 2017

RIP Jerry Lewis

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I was saddened to learn of the passing of Jerry Lewis earlier today. Not just a Hollywood legend, but an award-winning actor, writer, di...
Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Lost Soul

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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau ~ A friend had recommended this documentary to me, and real...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Café Society

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Café Society ~ I have always been a Woody Allen fan, although admittedly more of his funny early work than his later still-funny-but-in-...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

RIP Lauren Bacall

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Award winning actress of the stage and screen, as well as model and Hollywood legend, Lauren Bacall has passed away. She was 89. Ms....
Sunday, July 20, 2014

RIP James Garner

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Actor James Garner passed away last night, he was 86. Whether you knew him as Bret Maverick or Jim Rockford, from The Notebook , or doze...
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Monday, April 07, 2014

RIP Mickey Rooney

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This weekend we lost Mickey Rooney at the grand age of 93. The man was a Golden Age Hollywood legend - an award-winning actor, singer, d...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

RIP Karen Black

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Earlier today I found out that actress Karen Black had passed away via a Tweet from my good friend Andy Burns , also editor-in-chief of ...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Ray Harryhausen 1920-2013

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Possibly one of the greatest special effects artists who ever lied passed away today. Ray Harryhausen was a big part of my childhood, an...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The Hatchet Man

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The Hatchet Man ~ This 1932 Warner Bros. classic, from the heart of the pre-code gangster era, has an all star cast - Edward G. Robinso...
Monday, March 04, 2013

Jack the Giant Slayer

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Jack the Giant Slayer ~ Fairy tales are hot in Hollywood right now. Whether it's the two Snow White flicks last year, Hansel and G...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Vogues of 1938

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Vogues of 1938 ~ Regular readers of this blog know I love "Dark Shadows" - the TV series, not last summer's Johnny Depp v...
Monday, September 03, 2012

The Barrens: Thoughts on the Trailer

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There's never been a really good movie about the Jersey Devil, and there are damned few good books. " The Pines " by Rober...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Ernest Borgnine 1917-2012

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Ernest Borgnine passed away yesterday at the ripe old age of 95, from kidney failure. I grew up with him in "McHale's Navy,...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Mirror Mirror

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Mirror Mirror ~ Sometimes it just seems too easy to me for Hollywood to take a public domain property like a fairy tale, in this case, Sn...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Tony Curtis 1925-2010

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This is a bad week for Hollywood, we are losing all the good ones. Yesterday we lost director Arthur Penn, and this morning the news comes ...

RIP Arthur Penn

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The man behind not only some of my favorite films, but some of the greatest films ever made, period, has passed away. Director Arthur Penn ...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

Sands of Oblivion

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Sands of Oblivion ~ An interesting horror film. Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, as Cecil De Mille is actually a great cast...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Dennis Hopper 1936-2010

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Actor, filmmaker and Hollywood legend Dennis Hopper has passed away. He was 74. I used to have this thing for sixties movies when I was a ...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Jean Simmons Dies at 80

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Legendary actress Jean Simmons passed away yesterday from complications of lung cancer at the age of 80. The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winn...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Mandrake the Magician

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Mandrake the Magician is perhaps one of the first of the comic strip superheroes. Created by Lee Falk (who also created the Phantom) in 193...