War on Christmas Movies to remember: ‘Tis the season for cheery horror thrillers and widely reviled Kirk Cameron documentary.
Ruth Gordon
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Teresa Wright Movies: Deceptively Demure Heroine in The Little Foxes, The Pride of the Yankees and Alfred Hitchcock drama Shadow of a Doubt.
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Janet Leigh Psycho star Janet Leigh, born Jeanette Helen Morrison on July 6, 1927, in Merced, California, would have turned 85 today. Despite a film and television career spanning more …
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Nora Ephron movies: Heartburn 1986: Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson as fictionalized versions of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein. Nora Ephron & Carl Bernstein: ‘Heartburn’ movie Besides her essays, screenplays, and …
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James Farentino, best remembered for the television series The Bold Ones: The Lawyers and Dynasty, died at age 73 on Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn native (born on …
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Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. Roman Polanski, who won a best director Oscar for the Holocaust drama The Pianist in 2003, was arrested at the Zurich airport last night. According …
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Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (top); Julie Christie and Warren Beatty in Shampoo (bottom). Cameron Crowe and Peter Bart will host a panel discussion with Haskell …
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William Castle and the Rosemary’s Baby ‘curse.’ William Castle was a director of B movie thrillers such as those in two popular franchises of the 1940s starring faded stars of …
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Edward G. Robinson. One of the greatest film actors of all time: Edward G. Robinson can be appreciated on Wednesday, Aug. 20, on Turner Classic Movies. Like Barbara Stanwyck, TCM’s …
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Robert Evans with Rosemary’s Baby producer William Castle and lead actress Mia Farrow on the set of Roman Polanski’s classic 1968 horror thriller. “An Academy Salute to Robert Evans” will …
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Young at Heart. The Oscar-winning documentaries Young at Heart, The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, and You Don’t Have to Die will screen on …
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Joy (movie 2005) review: Julie Shles’ quietly amusing and generally well-acted Tel Aviv-set fairy tale discovers magic in unexpected places. Sigalit Fuchs stars.
Mia Farrow Twitpic shows far-right US presidential candidate Rick Santorum as he Bores Kids to Sleep. Despite 50+ films, Farrow has no Oscar nomination.
Stanley Kramer in “Film-Making with Spencer Tracy” (essay found in The Films of Spencer Tracy): “I can’t explain why I was never able to say to him what I wanted …
Marie Dressler in Dinner at Eight. It’s Oscar time. What better way to celebrate the 2008 Academy Awards than by having a q&a about the best actress Oscar winner … …