Whatever one may think of John Landis or Dan Aykroyd as either artists or people, they both deserve kudos for preserving a modern-day performance of “Minnie the Moocher” by Cab Calloway on film in The Blues Brothers (1980). Aykroyd wrote him…
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The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985)
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Steve McQueen I started going to the movies in the seventies and Steve McQueen was one of the first stars I got to know in current releases. When I saw his last film in the theatre, The Hunter, on opening…
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