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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Clint Eastwood: Happy 80th Birthday!
The weathered features, steel-eyed squint and take-no-prisoners demeanor are immediately recognizable to the global cinema audience that has raised this onetime Army swimming instructor to a remarkable 40+years at the forefront of box-office draws. Born in San Francisco to a…
Read more →George A. Romero & Survival Of The Dead
George A. Romero is back on the zombie track with George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead. The New York City -born, Pittsburgh-raised and now Toronto-based director has brought us gore and lots more in his shockers about the living…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! This was exciting. If he was the eighth caller they’d win the Laser Floyd tickets!
Read more →A Bijou Flashback: Forgotten Hollywood Treasures
Where on television today can you find short subjects starring Betty Boop, Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang or Flash Gordon? Hollywood studios stopped producing short subjects altogether in the late 1950s as television became a household fixture, but in their…
Read more →Bette Davis: She Did It The Hard Way
Bette Davis was a movie star when the word “star” meant something. She was quoted as saying, “Today everyone is a star – they’re all billed as ‘starring’ or ‘also starring’. In my day, we earned that recognition.” She was…
Read more →Catherine O’Hara: More Than Kevin’s Mom
Last week on this site an article examined the career of SCTV regular-turned-movie dad Eugene Levy, so now let’s turn to a look at his distaff counterpart, a gifted comic actress from the Great White North who’s also gone on to big-screen…
Read more →Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite “Third Stooge?”
Lured (1948): Movie Review
Lured (1948), directed by Douglas Sirk in high style, presents George Sanders as a good guy detective from Scotland Yard and Lucille Ball as a woman working with Scotland Yard who presents herself as bait to help draw a murderer…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 05.23.10
May 28, 1935: Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation unite to form 20th Century Fox, overseen by Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck. May 28, 1941: Animators and artists at the Walt Disney Studios launch an acrimonious two-month strike…
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