Top Ten Scream Queens: Barbara Steele, who both emitted screams and elicited same, is in a category of her own. Top Ten Scream Queens Halloween is over until next year, but the equally bewitching Day of the Dead is just…
Claire Bloom
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Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & long-running Honorary Oscar “snub.” Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & Danielle Darrieux among Honorary Oscar non-recipients (See previous post: “Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Greta Garbo & Angela Lansbury Among Rare Exceptions.”) Those who…
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Gay Erotic Thriller Wins Cannes Award + Jerry Lewis ‘Disastrous’ Comeback + ‘Pussy Riot’ Documentary
by Zac GilleGay erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake: Cannes Film Festival’s Queer Palm winner. Gay erotic thriller ‘Stranger by the Lake’ is Cannes’ Queer Palm winner Writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s gay erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake / L’inconnu du lac has…
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Universal Studios Horror: Alfred Hitchcock & James Whale + Sentimental Charles Chaplin 60th Anniversary
by Andre SoaresThe Birds poster: Universal Studios horror. Universal Studios horror: Alfred Hitchcock & James Whale + ‘Tarantula’ Academy screenings As part of the year-long celebration of Universal Pictures’ centenary, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present “Universal’s Legacy…
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Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan Natalie Portman: SAG Awards’ Best Actress for ‘Black Swan.’ Natalie Portman: SAG Awards’ Best Actress winner ‘bleeped’ TNT and TBS bleeped Natalie Portman, this year’s Best Actress SAG Award winner for her performance…
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Screen Actors Guild nominations: The King’s Speech received four SAG Award nods, including Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter and Best Actor for Colin Firth. Although not a fool-proof Academy Award bellwether, the Screen Actors Guild Awards are a…
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‘Beefcake’ & Homoeroticism + Cult Camp Classic ‘Can’t Stop the Music’ & Haunted House Lesbianism
by Andre SoaresBeefcake: Written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald, the 1999 docudrama Beefcake traces the groundbreaking trajectory of photographer/videographer Bob Mizer, whose “health & fitness” work – mostly focused on great-looking, muscular, scantily clad (or fully naked), young white men – helped…
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Claire Bloom, one of the most talented and most striking actresses of her generation, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Monday, Aug. 31. Handpicked by Charles Chaplin to be her young leading lady in the 1952 melodrama…