10 examples of theocracy in movies and TV illustrate the many forms of the inescapably authoritarian communion between religion and government.
‘Making Love’: Groundbreaking romantic gay drama returns to the big screen As part of its Anniversary Classics series, Laemmle Theaters will be presenting Arthur Hiller’s groundbreaking 1982 romantic drama Making…
Ben-Hur 1959 with Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston: TCM’s ’31 Days of Oscar.’ ’31 Days of Oscar’: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Ben-Hur’ in, Paramount stars out Today, Feb. 1, Turner…
Cary Grant movies: The new and improved Archibald Leach. Cary Grant movies: ‘An Affair to Remember’ does sentimental justice to its title Cary Grant excelled at playing Cary Grant. On…
John Kerr. John Kerr: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ gay teen on stage and screen has died John Kerr, best known for playing the sensitive (and suspected to be gay) adolescent opposite…
Nora Ephron movies: Heartburn 1986: Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson as fictionalized versions of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein. Nora Ephron & Carl Bernstein: ‘Heartburn’ movie Besides her essays, screenplays, and…
Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity. With Deborah Kerr, it’s not the bare shoulders that matter. It’s the eyes. Deborah Kerr, who died at the age of 86…
Fred Zinnemann began his career during the studio era, but kept on going, however sporadically, long after most of his contemporaries had retired. Even so, today his name means little…
Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman’s Agreement Elia Kazan: Actors Director Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the…
Alfred Hitchcock on the ‘Psycho’ set: The very first BAFTA Fellowship recipient. BAFTA Fellowship: Focus on men in the American/British show business industry The first recipient of the British Academy…
According to various online sources, Tasmanian-born director Don Sharp has died at age 89. A former small-time actor (The Planter’s Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in…
Lindsay Lohan nude Playboy images – or at least some of them – have been leaked online. In the photo shoot, the Freaky Friday and Mean Girls actress is made…
Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the…
Montgomery Clift could have become a much bigger star had he turned down fewer roles in major classics (Sunset Blvd., reportedly Shane, East of Eden) and accepted fewer roles in…
Turner Classic Movies’ look at Arabs in Hollywood movies continues this evening with six movies. Why exactly Gabriel Pascal’s film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) is…
Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. White men rule on TCM: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ & ‘The Four Feathers’ + ‘Young Winston’ Turner Classic Movies’ “Race and Hollywood:…
Dean Martin would have turned 94 years old on Tuesday, June 7. Generally a somnolent presence in low-brow comedies co-starring either Jerry Lewis or Frank Sinatra, Martin was at his…
Royal romance movies: Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer discover sprightly love and excruciating heartbreak in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1927 silent classic The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. As a William &…
Lost movie: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh. Oscar Winner Emil Jannings & Theda Bara + Lon Chaney & Clara Bow in Color: ‘Fragments’ on TCM The final…
Great singing in the clip above, huh? Well, that’s probably why Audrey Hepburn didn’t get a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for My Fair Lady. (See previous “Biggest Oscar Snubs”:…
Neva Patterson ca. mid-1950s. Stage, television and film actress Neva Patterson is best remembered for playing Cary Grant’s elegant ex-fiancée-to-be in Leo McCarey’s 1957 romance classic An Affair to Remember.…
Elizabeth Taylor movies: A Place in the Sun with Montgomery Clift. Elizabeth Taylor can be found in 11 movies to be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 23,…
South Pacific movie: 1958 musical toplining Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, France Nuyen, and Juanita Hall was a major box office hit. Tonight at 7:30 p.m., a recently restored…
Ronald Neame disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure with Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. Ronald Neame, best-known for the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure, died on June 16 at a hospital…
Jeanette MacDonald in Naughty Marietta. Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Gail Russell, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jeanette MacDonald, Emil Jannings, Jacques Tati, Nelson Eddy, Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, and…
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson in That Hamilton Woman (1941). Vivien Leigh biography, movies + photo exhibit among centenary celebrations [See previous post: “Vivien…
Joyce Redman, Academy Award nominated for both Tom Jones and Othello, died in Kent, England, earlier today. The Newcastle-born Redman, who was either 93 or 96, had been suffering from…
Barry Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby and Gene Lockhart in Going My Way Leo McCarey is Turner Classic Movies’ Director of the Evening this Christmas. Considering that McCarey was an ardent Catholic,…
Diane Cilento, a tall, voluptuous, sometimes brunette /sometimes blonde beauty best remembered for her Academy Award-nominated performance in the 1963 Oscar winner Tom Jones, died in Cairns, in the north…
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…
Elizabeth Taylor eyes: Actress’ trademark. I wonder if Elizabeth Taylor would have become a legend, still remembered more than 40 years after the release of her last major box office…
Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis, with Judy Garland. For Turner Classic Movies’ Margaret O’Brien Day on Sunday, Aug. 15, TCM will present the television premiere of Meet Me…