¡Hola! Tomorrow is September 16, which marks Mexican Independence Day (not on Cinco de Mayo, as many Americans think). MovieFanFare would like to raise a glass to toast our southern neighbors and asks you which film set south of…
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The weather’s turning cooler, the leaves are changing color, and the kids are all back in school. Another fall is just about here. And in the increasingly irrelevant world of broadcast network television, that means it’s time to introduce…
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A wheelchair-bound ex-Nazi scientist; a womanizing concert pianist; an Indian actor dreaming of Hollywood stardom; a childlike gardener obsessed with television; and, of course, a bumbling French police detective. These were just a few of the many diverse yet always…
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To date, only two male actors of Indigenous North American heritage have been nominated for Academy Awards. The first was Chief Dan George, co-star of 1970’s Little Big Man. Two decades later, Canada’s Graham Greene was, like George, nominated for…
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Today is the first Monday in September, which here in the U.S. means it’s also Labor Day. Since becoming a federal holiday in 1894, the day has been a nationwide comemmoration of the labor movement and its members, whose work…
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His acting career was kickstarted when he undressed Buster Keaton in a bathhouse. He also performed in a circus alongside an array of “human oddities,” took a potshot at William Powell, ran a luggage store with Edward G. Robinson,…
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Well, it’s that time once again, as parents across America bid goodbye to their grown children–and, in many cases, their life savings–as they send their sons and daughters off to the higher levels of academia. In other words, it’s…
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Everyone has heard how the first prime time animated TV series, 1960’s The Flintstones from Hanna-Barbera, was inspired by Jackie Gleason’s seminal sitcom The Honeymooners. One year later, the studio did it again, adapting The Phil Silvers Show, aka Sergeant…
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To earn an Academy Award nomination for your film debut is no small accomplishment, but that’s just what happened to Terence Stamp following his title turn in 1962’s maritime drama Billy Budd. The famed British actor, who was born in…
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From the Ancient Roman myths of Romulus and Remus to such reality TV “favorites” as Jon & Kate Plus 8, multiple births have fascinated folks for millennia. In the early 20th century, interest in childbirth and medical science gave rise…
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