Brave Journalist vs. the Far Right: Good Night and Good Luck. with David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow. George Clooney’s black-and-white drama about television journalist Edward R. Murrow was the…
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Danish-born actress Osa Massen, a femme fatale in Hollywood films of the 1940s, died at age 91 on Jan. 2 at a convalescent home in Santa Monica, in Los Angeles…
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Thelma Ritter publicity shot ca. early 1950s. Thelma Ritter: Six-time Oscar nominee would have turned 101 today Six-time Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee Thelma Ritter, who was born on…
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SAG and DGA Awards: Crashing Gay Cowboy Party + the return of veterans Paul Newman and Shirley Temple while Felicity Huffman wins one loses one.
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Oscar-nominated gay author-screenwriter Gavin Lambert tribute includes I Never Promised You a Rose Garden + The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
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Actor Anthony Franciosa died of a massive stroke this past Friday, Jan. 20, ’06, at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 77. Franciosa’s film career began late –…
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Shelley Winters and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun Shelley Winters, winner of two Best Supporting Actress Academy Awards, died of heart failure at the Rehabilitation Centre of…
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Aurora Miranda: Carmen Miranda Sister + fiery fancy-hat-wearing Phantom Lady singer also enthralled Donald Duck in Disney’s The Three Caballeros.
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Argentina Brunetti: It’s a Wonderful Life actress remembered + The Night Porter and Swimming Pool star Charlotte Rampling is Berlin Festival Jury President.
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Beverly Tyler: Actress in MGM films of the 1940s (The Green Years + The Beginning or the End) whose career suffered after losing role to Janet Leigh.
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Annette Stroyberg: Les Liaisons Dangereuses actress was Brigitte Bardot follow-up playing sex-kitten roles in a couple of husband Roger Vadim films.
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Richard Pryor: Stand-up comedian starred in box office hits Silver Streak and Stir Crazy with Gene Wilder and developed serious drug abuse issues.
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Jean Parker: Last Surviving Little Women 1933 actress and Lady for a Day ingenue + star of sleeper MGM hit Sequoia and whose husband was Batman actor.
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Marc Lawrence: Prolific film gangster and blacklisted House Un-American Activities Committee witness who kept on going all the way to the 2000s.
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Harold Pinter Nobel Prize in Literature Winner: Fiery Anti-US and Anti-Iraq War Acceptance Speech called for the arrest of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Carmen Miranda costume + memorabilia exhibition billed as largest in the world to showcase extravagantly garbed Brazilian Bombshell +iconic Hollywood star.
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Back to the Future Actress Wendie Jo Sperber Dead at 47. The scene-stealing Sperber was also featured in the Tom Hanks sitcom Bosom Buddies.
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Marlon Brando Sister Jocelyn Brando death. The Big Heat car bomb Mob Victim, film career damaged by anti-Red hysteria.
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Actor Keith Andes Commits Suicide: Marilyn Monroe Romantic Interest in 1952 movie also featured in musicals and Star Trek TV series.
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Vera Kholodnaya. Russian silent movie star remembered: Vera Kholodnaya Vera Kholodnaya, Russia’s top female movie star of the 1910s, will be brought back to the fore thanks to a Moscow…
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Sean Connery as James Bond: Prestige decades after commercial success. Sean Connery: James Bond star and Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner to receive AFI Life Achievement Award Sean Connery, best…
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Gene Hackman Night Moves: 1975 neo-noir movie by Arthur Penn screening as part of Academy tribute to the 3-time Best Director Oscar nominee.
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Winner of two Oscars, Olivia de Havilland getting Academy Tribute Best actress Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland with presenter Ray Milland at the 1947 Academy Awards ceremony. © A.M.P.A.S.…
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Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino in Beyond the Rocks: “Lost movie” will be screened in Los Angeles area. Gloria Swanson & Rudolph Valentino: Found ‘Lost’ film ‘Beyond the Rocks’ screening…
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Pasolini protégé & collaborator Sergio Citti dead at 72 Sergio Citti, a close friend, frequent collaborator, and protégé of controversial filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, died on Oct. 11 in Rome.…
Glamorous Actresses Carole Lombard and Mae West and Marlene Dietrich + Cecil B. DeMille DVD sets offer rare + racy and historically significant classics.
Falcon Lair: Rudolph Valentino House of legendary history (Doris Duke lived there) for Sale in Bel Air + Silent Era Child Actress Baby Peggy Talks!
Travelin’ Thru and Nobody Jesus But You among eclectic Best Song Oscar list + movies Best Visual Effects for teens and kids + Slamdance movies.
Gog 1954 (2001: A Space Odyssey precursor) director Herbert L. Strock + Brazilian producer of Cinema Novo classics The Guns and Ganga Zumba remembered.
Ivor Novello: Gay Icon and 1 of Alfred Hitchcock first major stars and ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’ composer remembered in Cardiff as The Rat.
Pat Morita movies: The Karate Kid 1984 martial arts teacher to Ralph Macchio earned former stand-up comedian an Oscar nomination.
John Fowles: The Collector, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Magus Author Dead at 79. Meryl Streep starred in film version of ‘French.’