Ray Harryhausen: Visual effects titan. Ray Harryhausen: ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ & ‘One Million Years B.C.’ visual-effects artist has died Long before the computer-generated imagery of Jurassic Park, Avatar, The Avengers, and Iron Man 3, there were special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen’s painstakingly created stop-motion models,…
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Raquel Welch quotes on Mae West: A few years ago, Raquel Welch reminisced about Mae West (photo), with whom she co-starred in 20th Century Fox’s 1970 epic disaster Myra Breckinridge. “I found her surreal,” Welch recalled. “Here was this star from the 1930s who had…
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Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib Raquel Welch is the guest programmer tonight on Turner Classic Movies. Welch and Robert Osborne will be introducing and discussing four Hollywood classics: Adam’s Rib (1949), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Breakfast at…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Osborne: Classic movie selections on TCM. Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will join Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to present four of his favorite films in TCM’s “Guest Programmer” series on Monday, March 22. Most “Guest Programmer” evenings are devoted to…
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Myra Breckinridge with Raquel Welch. Myra Breckinridge. Has anybody ever said anything good about this movie? Not that it’s a cinematic masterpiece or even one of the must-see worst cult movies ever made, but Myra does have its place for bad-movie lovers. The director, Michael…
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Versatile Hollywood director Richard Fleischer, at his best handling action films and suspense thrillers, died yesterday of “natural causes” at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills. He was 89. Fleischer began his directorial career in the mid-1940s,…