Guest blogger Alexis writes: On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the play, Everybody Goes to Rick’s, was purchased by Warner Bros. Producer Hal Wallis for $20,000. This was the most money ever spent on…
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I told you about The Brainiac and The Deadly Mantis from my childhood. Now, I’ll tell you about my favorite movie. The one movie that started my absolute love of horror and sci-fi… The Ridley Scott masterpiece… Alien. By the…
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Those of us who consider ourselves die-hard movie fans (not to be confused with fans of the Die Hard movies) might like to think that we’d do anything to meet our screen heroes. That bar was raised considerably in 2008’s…
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Soapy Sales A favorite for its 1981-1990 run on CBS, Falcon Crest was a nighttime sudser bubbling with colorful characters, duplicitous behavior and big-time movie and TV stars. Jane Wyman is the nasty owner of a Northern California winery and…
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I rewatched for the nth time (I’ve lost track) Howard Hawk’s Bringing Up Baby (1938). Apart from being great fun each time I watch it, this time was a bit different having read Marc Eliot’s book, Cary Grant: A Biography and…
Read more →March 10, 1910: D.W. Griffith launches the Hollywood film industry with In Old California, the first film to be made in the new municipality. March 10, 1922: Hollywood hires former postmaster general Will H. Hays to oversee “moral and artistic…
Read more →He raised comic fans’ hackles by casting Michael Keaton as Batman; tinkered with cinematic legend by revisiting the Planet of the Apes; and split audiences and critics by daring to reinvent Roald Dahl’s beloved book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory…
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In last week’s opening part of my tour of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland–or, at least, the myriad movie depictions of it–I introduced you to silent Alice in Wonderland shorts and features; Walt Disney’s ’20s Alice in Cartoonland series and his eventually abandoned…
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I recently fixed a gaping hole in my classic film education. Gilda, one of Rita Hayworth’s best movies, is infamous for her simulated strip-tease to “Put the Blame on Mame” and is considered one of the sexiest musical numbers put…
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