“Didn’t that guy ever have hair?” So said time traveler Marty McFly upon encountering his 1985 high school principal, Mr. Strickland, 30 years in the past in Back to the Future. Well, as the above picture of Strickland’s portrayer, James…
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A beloved star of many classic Hollywood musicals, Academy Award nominee Debbie Reynolds would have been 94 this Wednesday. A native of El Paso, Texas, Mary Frances Reynolds moved with her family to California when she was seven. After…
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With the 2026 baseball season officially underway, what better time to look at The Natural, a classic 1984 film about America’s favorite pastime? Directed capably by Barry Levinson (Diner) it stars all-American Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, a pitching and…
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In the “so bad it’s good” classic Showgirls, lead Elizabeth Berkley and her fellow Las Vegas dancers aspire to someday becoming stars. For one real-life showgirl in the late ’60s, that dream actually come true. Actress Valerie Perrine, who left…
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His Roman Colosseum showdown with Bruce Lee in 1972’s Way of the Dragon made him an instant sensation with martial arts fans. And that was early on in an over 50-year career that saw Carlos Ray “Chuck” Norris kick,…
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“There is no chin underneath Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.” “Chuck Norris’ tears can cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.” “How many push-ups can Chuck Norris do? All of them.” It seems almost inconceivable that…
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A few months ago, I wrote a piece about the bad girls of cinema. And Barbara Stanwyck was one of them. One of her films I didn’t include on her femme fatale list was The File on Thelma Jordon, a…
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Ever feel as though Life has you stuck “behind the eight ball”? Well, 1940s moviegoers saw that happen on an amazingly frequent basis to a put-upon everyman named Joe McDoakes. Released by Warner Bros./Vitaphone from 1942-56, the genuinely amusing Joe…
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In case you weren’t sure why everyone around you was wearing green, today is St. Patrick’s Day (must resist urge to write “faith and begorrah!”). To all of our readers who are sons and daughters of “the auld sod”…
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The 98th Academy Awards are in the history books. And while she wasn’t in the running this time around, Glenn Close’s next Oscar nomination will be her ninth, putting her one up on Peter O’Toole for the most noms…
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