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Are Actors Overpaid?
Guest blogger Castor Troy writes: Are entertainers, among which include film actors, overpaid? Many have heard about the outrageous paychecks Will Smith, Tom Cruise, or Reese Witherspoon take home for one single movie while the average American works 5 or 6…
Read more →Peter Hanson & Tales From The Script
Peter Hanson never thought he’d see his documentary Tales from the Script on the big screen. The entertaining survey of the world of screenwriters and screenwriting was created as a companion piece to his book of the same name, and,…
Read more →This Week In Film History 05-02-10
May 5, 1903: The film world first mines the riches of the literary world with Edwin S. Porter’s version of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. May 4, 1934: With a show-stopping performance of “Baby Take a Bow” in Fox’s…
Read more →Richard Ney: From Hollywood Babylon to Wall Street Jungle
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….
Read more →Jeremy Paul Kagan & The Chosen
Jeremy Paul Kagan knew that working on The Chosen, his 1981 film of Chaim Potok’s best-selling novel, would be something special. Set in 1940s Brooklyn, Potok’s book told of the friendship between a Hasidic Orthodox Jewish teen (played by Robby…
Read more →Feast Upon Lucio Fulci’s Zombie
Since his debut in the Bela Lugosi film White Zombie, our friend Zed has always been the idiot bastard son of the horror movie genre. He never receives any credit for being a loyal, quiet servant to the practitioners of…
Read more →Here’s to the Henchmen
You’re familiar, I’m sure, with the old saying, “Behind every great man there’s a great woman.” Well, in the movies, behind every great villain there seems to be an easily replenished supply of underlings ready to be abused and berated by their…
Read more →Inspector Crane & Dickens: Warren William’s Lone Wolf Co-Stars
Once I got involved watching the Lone Wolf series of movies I soon found myself looking for Inspector Crane and Dickens to pop up, which they did seven times (six and a half opposite Warren William)! (That’s Fred Kelsey as…
Read more →Questions About Carrie Snodgress, Christine Lahti & More Answered
Question: I recently viewed the original Magnificent Obsession, starring Robert Taylor and Irene Dunne, on TCM. Is this available to purchase? Answer: Good news! The Criterion Collection’s special edition of Magnificent Obsession contains the Taylor-Dunne 1935 release, as well as…
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