Three Wrongs Don't Make One Marilyn Monroe Right
Wednesday February 27, 2008
I swore I wasn't going to post about this, but now a third celebrity has decided to try and re-make herself into Marilyn Monroe. The first was ubiquitous ... Read More
TCM Investigates Pre-Code Hollywood Sin and Sex
Tuesday February 26, 2008
This should be fascinating. Turner Classic Movies has a new documentary premiering Monday, March 4, exploring Hollywood movies in the days before the infamous production code was put in ... Read More
A Bit of Shade from the Hollywood Sun
Tuesday February 26, 2008
What do Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and Tom Cruise all have in common? Hint: It's not Scientology or Oprah couch-jumping.
All of them have worn the classic Wayfarers Ray-Ban sunglasses ... Read More
Classic Sci-Fi in Russian Fairy-Tale Style
Thursday February 21, 2008
I love the good people of Boing-Boing. The "directory of wonderful things" led me to a page of scenes from classic sci-films rendered as Russian folk art in the ... Read More
Ouch - Watch Out For Movie Fakes
Wednesday February 20, 2008
Wouldn't it be cool to have Bogie's personal cigarette case? Wouldn't you just love to use that as a conversation starter?
Well, before you plunk down a few thousand dollars ... Read More
The War is Over. Now, Let's Make Some Demands!
Tuesday February 19, 2008
My condolences to any classic movie buffs who backed Toshiba's HD DVD in the format wars, but of course, Sony's Blu-Ray has offcially won. Now, it's time ... Read More
Vanity Fair Recreates Hitchcock Scenes
Tuesday February 12, 2008
I'm going to have to break down and buy Vanity Fair's much-discussed 2008 Hollywood portfolio in the March edition. It has these fantastic recreations of scenes from Hitchcock movies, ... Read More
The Classics Get Sponged Up
Tuesday February 12, 2008
This will either make you crazy, or make you laugh so hard your double half-caf soy latte foam will come out your nose.
It's the cast of Spongebob Squarepants doing voiceovers ... Read More
Roy Scheider Dead at 75
Monday February 11, 2008
Roy Scheider, wiry, suave star of Jaws and All That Jazz, with his trademark broken nose, has died of multiple myeloma at a hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... Read More
Bogart's Former Mistress Passes Away at 89
Monday February 11, 2008
The hard-drinking, hard-cussing reputed mistress of Humphrey Bogart has died in New Orleans at age 89.
Verita Bouvaire Thompson wrote a book about her 14-year affair with the actor after Bogart's ... Read More
Better Look Quick for Raquel
Thursday February 7, 2008
All you boys who have fond memories of the lovely Raquel Welch in the old sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage, and even fonder memories of her fur bikini in One Million ... Read More
TiVo Alert - TCM's 31 Days of Oscar Already Underway
Wednesday February 6, 2008
Yikes. One of my favorite TV events kind of snuck up on me this year. Turner Classic Movies is already several days into its 14th annual "31 Days ... Read More
Harrowing Midnight Express on DVD
Tuesday February 5, 2008
The movie that made everybody think twice about stashing hash on the way out of a foreign country is out in a new 30th anniversary release.
Midnight Express - slang ... Read More