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…
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The world of cinema has given audiences a goodly number of touching father-son moments over the years, from Mickey Rooney as typical teenager Andy Hardy and Lewis Stone’s as his wise pop, Judge Hardy, in the 1930s- ’40s MGM series, to the…
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Guest blogger Bob Campbell writes: Actor Richard Ney tried to warn us about the shortfalls of stock short-selling when he abandoned a 25 year Hollywood career to become a best-selling author of books critical of Wall Street obfuscation and greed….
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It’s an impressive body of work that most actors would love to have on their resumé: Gerald O’Hara, Vivien Leigh’s troubled father, in Gone with the Wind; Clopin, 15h-century Paris’ “King of the Beggars,” in The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Mr….
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She was Maid Marian’s lady-in-waiting, met the Invisible Man and the Frankenstein Monster, and worked with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and Billy Wilder. She was rubber-faced character actress Una O’Connor, our latest Scene Stealer,
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It is, to borrow a phrase from one of his better-known movie roles, “inconceivable” that filmgoers of all ages aren’t familiar with at least the voice, if not the leprechaun-like face, of comedic mainstay Wallace Shawn. Fans of art films know…
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In a movie like 1980’s Airplane!, where the jokes are zooming past viewers at a rate of several per minute and the starring cast includes veteran stars the likes of Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack, it takes a…
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Amid the taboo-shattering and polymorphously perverse chaos that is the John Waters universe, she was an oasis of…well, if not sanity, then certainly an off-kilter form of niceness. Few who have seen the director’s landmark 1972 “exercise in poor taste,” Pink Flamingos, …
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It’s a rare accomplishment for an actor or actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for their very first film appearance. It’s even more rare for that first appearance to come at the rather advanced (for Hollywood) age of 61!…
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One of the most recognizable character actors of the past three decades has to be Mike Starr. With his hulking 6’3″ frame Mike cuts an imposing figure. As a result, much of his TV and film work have typecast him…
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