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…
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“A story must be told!’ – Bela Lugosi as “The Scientist,” Glen or Glenda? (1953) Earlier this Spring, fans of Hollywood’s Golden Age mourned the death of two-time Best Actress Academy Award-winner and eight-time bride Elizabeth Taylor. Aficionados of cult movies and…
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A great many actresses try their best to come across as “hot” in the movies. A staggering number of them, to put it charitably, often come up short in all but the most superficial of ways. Now, that’s not a problem…
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Guest blogger John McElwee writes: It’s 1941. You’re Paramount, newly in receipt of a white-hot fad off comic pages and radio — only this one flies and lifts up passenger trains. How in deuce will you translate that to a…
Read more →May 15, 1900: The Lumière brothers dazzle audiences at the Paris World’s Fair with films projected onto an enormous 82′ x 49′ wide screen. May 17, 1912: Carl Laemmle oversees the merger of a number of independent production companies to…
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The personification of American integrity and self-determination, this rangy, laconic Montanan carved his screen legend with a gallery of regular Joes who refused to compromise their codes of conduct in the face of those who’d skew the rules. Frank James…
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Here are 10 trivia facts about Dave from 1993, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more…
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From the days of silent film, there were women directing the action from behind the camera, but their early contributions to the industry have been ignored or otherwise unheralded, in large part, over the ensuing years. Quite a few female…
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You laughed out loud (or cringed, perhaps depending on your outlook) when he impersonated President George W. Bush; you couldn’t get enough of the dueling between Alex Trebek and Sean Connery every time Celebrity Jeopardy! aired a new episode; you loved…
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