The Women remake with Meg Ryan. In the old Margalo Gilmore (on Broadway, 1936), Norma Shearer (1939), and June Allyson (1956) role, 1990s Hollywood Sweetheart Meg Ryan plays a materially…
Cloris Leachman
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Ann-Margret movies: From sex kitten and Elvis Presley leading lady to two-time Academy Award nominee. Ann-Margret movies: From Elvis Presley to ‘Tommy,’ ‘Carnal Knowledge’ Oscar nominations Ann-Margret, the 1960s star…
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Robert Redford in ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.’ Robert Redford movies: ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,’ ‘The Sting’ and honorable war hero or psycho serial killer? They don’t…
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Female directors at the forefront: Nadine Labaki in Where Do We Go Now?, which she also directed. The Musical was the Toronto Film Festival’s surprise People’s Choice Award winner. Lebanese…
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Ben Johnson isn’t exactly what one would call a movie icon; Johnson isn’t even a Western icon, despite his presence in numerous Old (and not-so-Old) West movies during his 50+-year…
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Paul Leni’s The Man Who Laughs, starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur, Angela Lansbury, Conrad Veidt, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Gene Wilder,…
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Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in To Be or Not to Be (top); Mel Brooks at the 1969 Oscar ceremony (bottom). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will…
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Meryl Streep is an ‘inspirational’ presence in Wes Craven’s unusually sentimental and gore-free real-life-based drama Music of the Heart. Angela Bassett costars.
Mary Tyler Moore .Mary Tyler Moore has been named the recipient of the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals…
Adam Sandler surprises while Cloris Leachman steals the show in James L. Brooks’ patronizing bicultural romcom Spanglish. Téa Leoni costars.