Where have all the monsters gone? As a kid, I was gung-ho for Lugosi, Karloff and Chaney, not to mention Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and the rest of the more sophisticated Warner Brothers stock company turning out classy thrillers like The Beast With Five Fingers. Eventually, the legitimate monsters of my youthful mania turned into Read More
Do you have plans for Sunday, October 12? Cancel them.
If, in the wake of Paul Newman's death last Friday, you've been wishing to revisit the great actor's work and have been thwarted at your local video store, Turner Classic Movies has stepped in with a 24-hour block of Newman movies.
MONDAYThings aren't looking good in Hollywood. A week from today, on June 30, the Screen Actors Guild's contract will expire. And as Variety reported on Friday, it seems increasingly unlikely that a deal with producers will be struck by then. Anyway, time for S.A.G. to celebrate! The labor union turns 75 Read More
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Starting this month, the 34-year-old beauty is taking on the role of Read More
I found myself caught up in the down-and-dirty Survivor finale, which my summer was coming more and more to resemble. There was Kelly, devious manipulator, who won points for soul searching. And Rich, the self-described Fat Naked Fag, the straightforward manipulator who gambled craftily and won. The outcome, a Mars-Venus parable if ever there was Read More
Wednesday, July 7
Barry Diller gave the order in the spring of '98: no more fighting on The Jerry Springer Show ! Well, a couple of public outcries and media-fueled mass murders later, Mr. Diller has finally brought order to the program, which is owned by his Studios U.S.A. Nothing good lasts forever. "We will either Read MorePeter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week
In 1970–a decade before the video cassette age–Orson Welles had rented a house for a year in Beverly Hills, and one evening I brought over a portable 16-millimeter projector so that we could run a print I'd borrowed of James Cagney at his annihilating best in Raoul Walsh's amazing Read More
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