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Tod Browning and Lon Chaney: A Match Made in Macabre Movie Heaven
Since the beginning of motion pictures, there have been directors and actors whose creative collaborations have provided filmgoers with some of the screen’s most magical moments: Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, John Ford and John Wayne, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune,…
Read more →Let Us Now Praise Zeppo Marx
He’s been called “Zero Marx,” “the Missing Marx Brother” and “the Rodney Dangerfield” of the foursome. He was part of the screen’s greatest comedy team, yet–ironically–is now a footnote in Hollywood history, and on those rare occasions his name is brought up it’s…
Read more →Humphrey Bogart: The Non-Essentials
“I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.” So said the man who would eventually be voted number one in an American Film Institute poll of the greatest screen actors of all time. It may have been…
Read more →Confessions of a Philatelic Cineaste
I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that racy-sounding headline that drew your attention here merely means that I am both a stamp collector and a movie buff (boy, hard to believe I’m still single). These dual obsessions interests don’t at first glance seem like…
Read more →Catherine O’Hara: More Than Kevin’s Mom
Last week on this site an article examined the career of SCTV regular-turned-movie dad Eugene Levy, so now let’s turn to a look at his distaff counterpart, a gifted comic actress from the Great White North who’s also gone on to big-screen…
Read more →Birdemic: No One Sets Out to Make a Bad Movie
There’s a scene near the end of Ed Wood, Tim Burton’s hilariously touching ode to the grade-Z “worst director of all time,” where the title character (Johnny Depp) is seated in the balcony during the Hollywood premiere of his 1959 sci-fi opus…
Read more →Eugene Levy: Canadian Comic, American (Pie) Dad
The world of cinema has given audiences a goodly number of touching father-son moments over the years, from Mickey Rooney as typical teenager Andy Hardy and Lewis Stone’s as his wise pop, Judge Hardy, in the 1930s- ’40s MGM series, to the…
Read more →Here’s to the Henchmen: Part 2
In the 1989 film Batman, Jack Nicholson’s Joker asks rhetorically of his caped nemesis, “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” A better question might be, where do maniacal movie bad guys like the Joker find flunkies willing to follow their…
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