A good deal has already been written and will continue to be over the next several days regarding the career of renowned actor Gene Hackman, who earlier this week was found dead, along with his classical musician wife Betsy Arakawa,…
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Call it the “Cousin Oliver Curse” or “Scrappy-Doo Syndrome.” It’s when a new character is introduced into a long-running TV series with hopes of “refreshing” things, only to meet with negative audience response. One show that managed to survive this…
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Director/co-scripter James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown picked up an impressive three acting nominations at this year’s Academy Awards: Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, and Timothée Chalamet as Dylan. Since 1978’s The Buddy…
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It’s one of the enduring mysteries of the Academy Awards nominating process. How do two performers who seem to have equal billing and equal screen time in a film wind up with one being tapped for the lead category and…
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George Burns, Charlton Heston, Alanis Morissette, Morgan Freeman: the list of performers who have played the Judeo-Christian God on the big screen is a list both selective and eclectic. Perhaps the first actor to tackle the part was an imposing…
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Well, today is Presidents’ Day, everyone. On a related note, first-time Oscar nominee Sebastian Stan is up for a Best Actor award for playing a pre-White House Donald Trump in The Apprentice. This marks the ninth time that an actor…
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Today is, of course, Valentine’s Day. A recent news article stated that every year Americans purchase over 36 million boxes of chocolates to give to their sweethearts on the 14th of February…but there’s no precise statistic as to how many…
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Well, Super Bowl LIX has come and gone. And for movie fans who tune into the game for the debuting trailers as much as for the football, there was a wide assortment of titles to enjoy…even if they seemed to…
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There would have been a certain bittersweet symmetry if actor Tony Roberts–who passed away last Friday at the age of 85–had won either of the two Antoinette Perry Award nominations he received back in 1968-69, just so the headlines could…
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Well, as most of you know, the Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl LIX yesterday. And, as some of you may know, MovieFanFare was born and raised in the City of Brotherly Love. With that in mind, we’d like to pause…
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