Los Angeles Film Critics Awards surprises: Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Rampling tops as the former now 4th two-time LAFCA Best Actor winner.
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Polly Bergen, actress in Hollywood and on Broadway, was on Richard Nixon’s extended Enemies List, along with other liberal Democrat celebrities.
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Honorary Oscars have bypassed women for decades. Is the Academy biased? Angela Lansbury, Lauren Bacall among rare winners.
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Peter Falk: Two-time Oscar nominee. Peter Falk, the two-time Oscar nominee best known for playing television police detective Columbo, died Thursday, June 23, at his Beverly Hills home. Falk, who…
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Judy Garland movies: Meet Me in St. Louis. Judy Garland vehicles are a Turner Classic Movies staple, so the “Summer Under the Stars” day – Thursday, Aug. 6 – dedicated…
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Bette Davis – young and older – is the subject of a Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences centennial tribute. Bette Davis…
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Bette Davis in Dangerous: First of two Best Actress Academy Awards. Although Bette Davis isn’t exactly one my favorite actresses, in my view several of her performances rank among the…
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Marlon Brando Sister Jocelyn Brando death. The Big Heat car bomb Mob Victim, film career damaged by anti-Red hysteria.
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A Woman Under the Influence (movie 1974) review: John Cassavetes’ dysfunctional marriage drama is irreparably marred by its own fake ‘rawness.’ Gena Rowlands stars.
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Faces (movie 1968) review: John Cassavetes’ landmark and widely admired 1968 independent drama is a narrative wreck and a long-winded cinematic chore. John Marley stars.
Meredith Baxter Lesbian out of the closet announcement from Emmy-nominated Family and Family Ties actress + Another Gay Movie Seized in Canada.
‘Buddha’ quotes: Adolescent filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf discusses ‘Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame’ at San Sebastian Film Festival “As an 18-year-old girl who lives in Iran today and who faces very…