Who is The Iron Lady? Ask Meryl Streep, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the Phyllida Lloyd-directed biopic. Oscar veteran Meryl Streep may have her name already engraved on the Best…
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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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Eric Stoltz, Cher, and director Peter Bogdanovich on the set of Mask: Biggest Oscar snubs. (See previous post: Biggest Oscar Snubs: Audrey Hepburn vs. Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady.)…
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Ray Milland, Jane Wyman in Billy Wilder’s 1945 drama The Lost Weekend (bottom). The first and last best picture Oscar winners by way of the preferential voting system. The winner…
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Targets with Boris Karloff. Peter Bogdanovich’s thriller Targets asks the question, “Does life imitate art or does art imitate life?” The film’s answer is “both.” Elderly horror star Boris Karloff…
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Shirley Jones, Ann Rutherford, and Robert Wagner at the Academy’s James Stewart Centennial Tribute. James Stewart Centennial Tribute: Shirley Jones & Ann Rutherford + host Robert Wagner The Academy of Motion…