It’s one of the enduring mysteries of the Academy Awards nominating process. How do two performers who seem to have equal billing and equal screen time in a film wind up with one being tapped for the lead category and…
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George Burns, Charlton Heston, Alanis Morissette, Morgan Freeman: the list of performers who have played the Judeo-Christian God on the big screen is a list both selective and eclectic. Perhaps the first actor to tackle the part was an imposing…
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Well, today is Presidents’ Day, everyone. On a related note, first-time Oscar nominee Sebastian Stan is up for a Best Actor award for playing a pre-White House Donald Trump in The Apprentice. This marks the ninth time that an actor…
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Today is, of course, Valentine’s Day. A recent news article stated that every year Americans purchase over 36 million boxes of chocolates to give to their sweethearts on the 14th of February…but there’s no precise statistic as to how many…
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Well, Super Bowl LIX has come and gone. And for movie fans who tune into the game for the debuting trailers as much as for the football, there was a wide assortment of titles to enjoy…even if they seemed to…
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There would have been a certain bittersweet symmetry if actor Tony Roberts–who passed away last Friday at the age of 85–had won either of the two Antoinette Perry Award nominations he received back in 1968-69, just so the headlines could…
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Well, as most of you know, the Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl LIX yesterday. And, as some of you may know, MovieFanFare was born and raised in the City of Brotherly Love. With that in mind, we’d like to pause…
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Say, did you hear that the Super Bowl is this weekend? On Sunday evening, over 100 million Americans and millions more worldwide will settle in to watch the game (and, in many cases, the movie ads that punctuate it). The…
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“Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” It’s an oft-repeated quote that over the years has been attributed–incorrectly–to both 19th-century Shakespearean stage star Edmund Kean and Hollywood character actor Edmund Gwenn, among others. Gwenn appears to have been the closest, his…
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“Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” “I pity the fool!” “And knowing is half the battle!” ’80s kids certainly had no lack of TV catchphrases to sprinkle into their everyday conversations. And if you were a boy showing off at the playground,…
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