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…
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…
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.)…
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…
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…
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…