Thursday, May 30, 2013

Bullitt: Steve McQueen Plays It Cool (What Else?)

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Bullitt  was not the film that established the Steve McQueen "cool quotient." Steve was displaying coolness earlier in the 1960s i...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

TV Western Themes: "Branded" and "The Virginian"

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The answers to this week's TV quiz referenced the theme song to the 1965-66 Chuck Connors Western series Branded . Frankly, I was surpri...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

We Describe the TV Series...You Name It!

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The rules are the same as the movie edition of this game: Name each TV series below based on our vague description. Be sure to include the q...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

"The Long, Hot Summer"...the TV Series!

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Ah, the wonder of YouTube! I vaguely remember my parents watching a mid-1960s TV series based on the 1958 Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward hit Th...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

The Philadelphia Experiment: Time Travel Romance...and Urban Legend

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Nancy Allen and Michael  Paré. There are better time travel romances, such as Somewhere in Time , Time After Time ,  and   I'll Neve...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Angela Cartwright Talks with the Café about Danny Thomas, Lost in Space, The Sound of Music, and Her Artwork

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Danny Thomas' stepdaughter on The Danny Thomas Show , Penny Robinson in Lost in Space , and Brigitta von Trapp in The Sound of Music --...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

The Top Five Hit Songs of the 1970s--Sung by TV Stars!

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It's not uncommon for a television performer to use the popularity of his or her TV series as the springboard for a music career. Ricky ...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The Seven Best Ray Harryhausen Movies (because we couldn't stop at five!)

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Harryhausen and some of his models. Ray Harryhausen, cinema's undisputed master of stop-motion special effects, worked on his first ...
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Sunday, May 5, 2013

"Z" for Zorro--Tyrone Power's 1940 Version

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Tyrone Power in full Zorro guise. For me, Errol Flynn dominated the swashbuckler genre from his appearance in Captain Blood  (1935) thro...
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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Farewell, My Falcon

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Raymond Chandler--the creator of Philip Marlowe, one of literature's great detectives--signed a contract in 1941 for RKO to film his nov...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Julie Adams Chats with the Café about James Stewart, the Gill Man, Elvis, and Her Autobiography

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Julie Adams' amazing career as a film and television actress has spanned six decades. She worked with screen legends such as James Stew...
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