Film Forum screenings: Claudette Colbert & Mae West + Gary Cooper Paramount Pre-Code classics “Paramount Before the Code,” consisting of more than 40 classics, semi-classics, and forgotten gems from Hollywood’s…
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Eddie Albert: Green Acres + Roman Holiday Actor has died at age 99 Eddie Albert, a two-time Academy Award nominee and the star of the long-running television series Green Acres,…
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Maria Schell. Maria Schell remembered: Gervaise + The Hanging Tree + Superman actress Maria Schell, who starred in Gervaise, The Last Bridge, and other film classics of the 1950s, had…
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Ruth Hussey. Ruth Hussey: 1940s MGM actress remembered Ruth Hussey, a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee for George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story, died at age 93 on April 19…
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Errol Flynn DVD box set: The Signature Collection features 5 classic swashbucklers and Westerns in addition to a new Turner Classic Movies documentary.
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Warner’s Doris Day DVD Collection box set include several of the bright star’s biggest hits - comedies and musicals - and even one of her rare (big-budget) flops.
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Egyptian movie star Ahmed Zaki is best remembered for playing presidents Gamal Abdul Nasser and Anwar Sadat in flag-waving historical dramas.
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Early 1960s Top 10 box office star Sandra Dee personified American cinema’s idealized adolescence + young womanhood - but with an undercurrent of disaffection.
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Best Actress SAG Awards: Boxing-ring star beats stage diva in fierce rematch, while Katharine Hepburn has her first competitive Screen Actors Guild ‘win’ ever.
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Pretty Western actress had promising Hollywood career derailed after a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical flop, but was kept busy opposite several cowboy stars.
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Robin Williams is the Golden Globes’ next recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement - despite less than 25 years in movies.
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Award-winning Iraq War-themed drama gets US distribution + veteran Oscar winner has been hospitalized + Antarctica is getting its very first movie theater.
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The low-key documentary Calling Hedy Lamarr offers a glimpse into the phone habits of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars.
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John Wayne DVD collection features a rare all-star and multiple Oscar-nominated ‘disaster’ blockbuster, in addition to Shakespearean and 3D Westerns.
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Two Pedro Almodóvar quotes: Bad Education filmmaker takes on the Catholic Church and its millenary anti-gay stance, while actor Gael García Bernal reveals his ‘inner transvestite.’
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Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan asserts that his latest movie - the historical political/biographical drama Mangal Pandey: The Rising - is not anti-British propaganda. Ketan Mehta directed.
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Is The Aviator star Leonardo DiCaprio going to play a 1930s gangster or an FBI agent in Michael Mann’s planned crime drama based on the book Public Enemies?
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Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro: Biography of the tragic gay actor and MGM star (Ben-Hur) who was both devoutly Catholic and homosexual.
Margaretta Scott. Margaretta Scott: Things to Come & All Creatures Great and Small actress remembered Margaretta Scott, best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs. Pumphrey in the BBC television…
Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.
A few quotes as big-screen veterans Joan Collins and Lauren Bacall ponder: Best Actress Academy Award win or no, how much of a movie legend - if one at all - is Birth star Nicole Kidman?
A couple of Susan Sarandon quotes: The Oscar-winning actress discusses the need for liberal political activism in our troubled times and her appeal as a sexy older woman capable of seducing younger men.
French film stars Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche among celebrities offering support for hostages being held in Iraq. Also: Iranian filmmaker hospitalized after arrest.