Magnificent Obsession book by Anthony Slide. Whereas Lloyd C. Douglas’ 1929 Magnificent Obsession book dealt with a playboy’s urge to restore the eyesight of the woman he had accidentally blinded,…
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Premiere: Lupita Nyong’o at the most anticipated event since the days of Nostradamus. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ premiere in Hollywood The most anticipated event…
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And Then There Were None movie with Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, June Duprez, Louis Hayward and Roland Young. And Then There Were None movie remake to be directed by Oscar…
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Alec Guinness. Alec Guinness movies: Pre-‘Star Wars’ Guinness runs the gamut from Dickens’ Fagin to Japanese businessman romancing Rosalind Russell Alec Guinness is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars”…
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Jean Simmons in Great Expectations with Martita Hunt. Jean Simmons is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of June. Though never a major box office draw, Simmons either starred…
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Marion Davies in King Vidor’s Show People. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM – initially…
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Screenwriter-director Philip Kaufman’s 1983 Best Picture Oscar nominee, The Right Stuff, will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series.…
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Star Wars with Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill. Part four of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series will kick off on Monday, April 23,…
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A Passage to India with Judy Davis. Synopsis: In the early 20th century, Miss Quested (Judy Davis) and her soon-to-be mother-in-law, Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft, right), arrive in India, where they’re…
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Iraq War parallels in Revenge of the Sith? According to director-screenwriter George Lucas, similarities between his film’s intergalactic wars of the future and the earthbound wars of the present are…
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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…
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An ongoing controversy surrounding Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Adolf Hitler movie Downfall, starring Bruno Ganz as Der Führer, has at its core the following question: Should modern history’s most hated man be…