My sophomore year of high school I had one of the best teachers I’ve ever had during my student career. Her name was Leslie Pierce and she taught honors English. We read a lot of really boring books like “The…
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Actress Beauty Tip: The Jean Harlow Weight Loss Program
Since it’s summer and swim suit season, several of us have weight loss on the brain. Looking at thin actresses such as Hedy Lamarr and Claudette Colbert makes losing weight seem impossible. They are so tiny and perfect! Who actually has a 20-inch waist? But…
Read more →Audrey Hepburn: The Sorority Girl’s Pin-Up
Guest blogger Jessica Pickens writes: On a college campus you can’t miss the familiar outline of Holly Golightly with her cigarette holder while wearing a long black gown on the back of a sorority T-shirt. And of course under that photo…
Read more →Evolution of a Classic Film Fanatic
It started with a girl named Maria and a boy named Tony who thought something was coming. That’s what I usually tell people when they ask how I became a classic movie fan: it happened on a fateful March evening…
Read more →Serenade Me, Mr. Powell: 20 Million Sweethearts (1943)
Ginger Rogers is a triple threat. She can sing, act and dance. She even won an Oscar for her 1941 performance in Kitty Foyle. I taped several of her films that I haven’t seen (I’m trying to see all of…
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