Theodore Bikel: Social and Union Activist, Vanessa Redgrave ‘The Palestinian’ Spat and stance against Israeli settlements.
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Olivia de Havilland Turns 99: Sole Surviving major Gone with the Wind Cast Member Filed Lawsuit vs. Warner Bros. that Changed U.S. Labor Law.
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Teresa Wright was one of the ‘Oldest’ Oscar Winners and the earliest surviving Best Supporting Actress winner at the time of her death.
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Mickey Rooney ca. 1940 Mickey Rooney dead at 93: Four-time Oscar nominee & frequent Judy Garland co-star may have had the longest film career ever Mickey Rooney, four-time Academy Award…
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Eva Marie Saint: Actress has gone from Marlon Brando & Cary Grant to Superman As found in Arthur Spiegelman’s 2006 Reuters article “Eva Marie Saint won’t look back,” the Oscar-winning…
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Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden’s Victim. 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in…
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Weird stuff happened at the most recent MTV Movie Awards ceremony: Justin Timberlake grabbed Mila Kunis’ breasts, Mila Kunis grabbed Justin Timberlake’s crotch, Robert Pattinson kissed Taylor Lautner instead of…
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Irvin Kershner, the director of the most watchable early Star Wars saga effort, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), has died in Los Angeles. Kershner was 87. What makes The Empire Strikes…
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Lee Remick. Great news for Lee Remick fans: eleven of her movies will be shown on Thursday, Aug. 26, on Turner Classic Movies. Remick Day is part of TCM’s “Summer…
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Movies with gay characters: A fey Charles Laughton as Nero, plus Claudette Colbert and Fredric March in The Sign of the Cross. Inspired by Richard Barrios’ book Screened Out: Playing Gay…
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Stagy screenplay and 3 of its 4 leads hinder Fred Zinnemann’s early drug addiction drama A Hatful of Rain. Eva Marie Saint is the sole standout.
Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe Movies Turner Classic Movies, Saturday, Aug. 5 6:00 AM THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950) A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist. Director: John…
Susannah York in Robert Altman’s Images. Susannah York, one of the best (and best-looking) performers of the 1960s and 1970s, died today. York’s son, Orlando Wells (the Duke of Kent…
Satirical novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author of the bestselling anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, died Wednesday, April 11. According to his wife, photographer Jill Krementz, Vonnegut had suffered brain injuries after a…