Funny Girl Press Release: The 1968 Best Picture nominee Funny Girl will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be…
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Image: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Press Release: The 1967 Best Picture nominees Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Bonnie and Clyde will be screened as the next features in the…
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Mrs Henderson Presents with Bob Hoskins and Judi Dench. Directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Martin Sherman, Mrs Henderson Presents is an unabashedly old-fashioned star vehicle for Judi…
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Screenwriter and playwright Jay Presson Allen died of a stroke yesterday morning at her home in Manhattan. She was 84. The Ft. Worth native (born on March 3, 1922) wrote…
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Ivor Novello: Gay Icon and 1 of Alfred Hitchcock first major stars + Keep the Home Fires Burning composer remembered in Cardiff as The Rat.
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‘Back to the Future’ actress Wendie Jo Sperber. ‘Back to the Future’ actress Wendie Jo Sperber dead at 47 Wendie Jo Sperber, best known for her roles as Amy Cassidy…
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John Fowles: The Collector and The French Lieutenant’s Woman author. John Fowles: ‘The Collector’ & ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ author dead at 79 Author John Fowles, among whose novels are The…
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Tom Cruise & Steven Spielberg War of the Worlds 2005 movie: H.G. Wells’ sci-fier for the 21st-century U.S. “Aren’t you afraid that audiences in some parts of the world may…
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Ruth Hussey. Ruth Hussey: 1940s MGM actress remembered Ruth Hussey, a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee for George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story, died at age 93 on April 19…
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Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.
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Sidney Lumet movies getting some belated Academy recognition: The Honorary Oscar will go to the Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon director.
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As weirdo billionaire Howard Hughes, Leonardo DiCaprio Is both fully convincing and badly miscast in Martin Scorsese’s overblown biopic The Aviator.
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The last of the Romanovs are at the center of Nicholas and Alexandra, a lavish but appallingly conventional Oscar-nominated historical drama.
Jean Parker: Last Surviving Little Women 1933 actress and Lady for a Day ingenue + star of sleeper MGM hit Sequoia and whose husband was Batman actor.
Shirley Temple curls finally rewarded: Next SAG Life Achievement Award recipient Shirley Temple, the biggest curly-haired child star in film history, is now a grown woman. In fact, she has…
Best Actress SAG Awards: Boxing-ring star beats stage diva in fierce rematch, while Katharine Hepburn has her first competitive Screen Actors Guild ‘win’ ever.
Four new DVDs focus on two-time Oscar-winning director George Stevens: A (racist) tribute to British colonialism, an immigration family drama, and two documentaries.