Oscar selfie becomes most retweeted tweet of all time: Ellen DeGeneres, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, and Oscar 2014 company. Oscar selfie + TV ratings: 10-year high in…
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Colonialism in Africa and its lasting legacy: The Wilby Conspiracy with Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, Prunella Gee, and Rutger Hauer. Shot in Kenya with an international cast, Ralph Nelson’s South Africa-set 1975 action thriller The…
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Idris Elba in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Directed by and starring a couple of Englishmen, respectively Justin Chadwick and Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom has been indifferently received by critics and audiences…
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Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe Movies Turner Classic Movies, Saturday, Aug. 5 6:00 AM THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950) A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist. Dir.: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis…
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Michelle Williams: Golden Globes’ Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical winner. Best Actress winner Michelle Williams: Golden Globes Michelle Williams poses backstage after winning the Golden Globe as Best Actress in a…
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Porgy and Bess film version with Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge: one of this year’s additions to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Samuel Goldwyn’s final production, the Otto Preminger-directed 1959 version of George…
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Ellen Barkin on the Governors Awards’ Red Carpet Actress Ellen Barkin attends the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, November 12. [Photo: Matt Petit / ©…
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Judy Garland in A Star Is Born: Restored Classics. Turner Classic Movies’ first-ever (2010) TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25 in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly…
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Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark in No Way Out Ruby Dee will be the special guest at a screening of No Way Out (1950), part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights…
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Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, and Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue. Sidney Poitier’s “Summer Under the Stars” day is Friday, Aug. 14. Turner Classic Movies will have no Sidney Poitier premieres, but fans of…
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‘Porgy and Bess’: Rare movie version of George Gershwin musical New York screening The Samuel Goldwyn-produced, Otto Preminger-directed 1959 musical Porgy and Bess “was a much-touted, much-seen and in some quarters much-admired motion picture in…
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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 Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
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Ramon Novarro and Enid Bennett in The Red Lily. Generally, I post my “Can’t Miss” warnings days after the must-see movies have been shown on television. I’ve decided to try something different this time around. I’m…