There are always some movies that fly under the radar of the general public, despite getting major buzz at the independent film festivals. Lost little gems. Some eventually receive their flowers and are discovered years later. Today we are…
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Few things give movie buffs more enjoyment than comparing and debating their top film lists with fellow fans. Such lists carry extra gravitas when coming from authorities such as actors, directors, critics, or organizations like the American Film Institute….
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Decades before Dwayne Johnson, another “Rock” ruled the Hollywood box office. Today marks the 100th birthday of perennially popular leading man Rock Hudson. Born Roy Scherer, Jr. on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois, he later took the surname…
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Matinee Idol…Screen Siren.. Child Star…Teen Sensation. All of these archetypes were covered in newspapers and movie magazines extensively back in Hollywood’s Golden Age. Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, Walter Winchell, Earl Wilson, Army Archerd, Joyce Haber, Rona Barrett, James Bacon, and…
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It’s safe to say an actress whose film debut has her tied to a chair naked for 45 minutes is going to have an interesting career. For Sally Kirkland, her experiences as part of Andy Warhol’s Factory crowd set the…
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To star in a one-person play on London’s West End and Broadway and walk away with seven awards–including the Olivier and Tony Awards–is a rare achievement. To then star in the play’s film version and earn Oscar and Golden Globe…
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With apologies to Bon Jovi, this week’s MovieFanFare poll celebrates “November Rains.” Today is the anniversary of British-born actor Claude Rains’ birth. A four-time Academy Award nominee, William Claude Rains was born in London in 1889, one of 12 children…
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“You aren’t too smart, are you? I like that in a man.” Kathleen Turner to Wiliam Hurt in Body Heat (1981) “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)…
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Sometimes Hollywood deaths happen with a strange sense of coincidence. Just two months after Polly Holliday–who played wisecraking waitress Flo on the ’70s sitcom Alice–departed, the Oscar-nominated actress who originated the role in the 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here…
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In a 1976 M*A*S*H episode, Hawkeye talked about the familiarity of American life during the Great Depression. “You knew where you stood in those days,” he says. “Franklin Roosevelt was always president, Joe Louis was always the champ, and Paul…
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