Monday, July 27, 2020

The Black Hole Sinks into Itself

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In the wake of the massive success of Star Wars (1977), Walt Disney Productions mounted its own science fiction adventure in 1979 with The ...
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Monday, July 20, 2020

Movie-TV Connection Game (July 2020)

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Rex Harrison and Marc Singer. The rules:  You will be given a pair or trio of films or performers and will be required to to find the co...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Classic Movies and Television on Peacock TV

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This month, NBCUniversal launched a new streaming service called Peacock TV. It offers two tiers: a limited version that's free and a mo...
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Monday, July 13, 2020

Seven Things to Know About I.A.L. Diamond

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1. Beginning with Love in the Afternoon  (1957), I.A.L. Diamond wrote twelve movies with Billy Wilder over a period of 25 years. Their bigge...
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Thursday, July 9, 2020

A Perry Mason Primer

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Warren William as Perry. Raymond Burr will always be Perry Mason for millions of mystery fans, but Erle Stanley Gardner’s lawyer hit the...
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Monday, July 6, 2020

A Black Sheep and a Young Burl Ives

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Bobby Driscoll as Jeremiah. Young Jeremiah Kincaid lives in a small Indiana town at the turn of the century--the kind of place where th...
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Thursday, July 2, 2020

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season One

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The new streaming app Peacock TV officially launches on July 15, 2020. However, it's available now for customers of Comcast's Xfinit...
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Monday, June 29, 2020

Doris Day in Hitchcock and Hitchcock-Lite

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In regard to his two versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much  (1934 and 1956), Alfred Hitchcock famously quipped: "Let's just say tha...
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Thursday, June 25, 2020

The Five Best Greer Garson Performances

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As Paula in Random Harvest . 1.  Random Harvest  - At the end of World War I, an entertainer named Paula (Greer Gardson) falls in love w...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davis Take on The Scalphunters

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Burt Lanaster as Joe Bass. When easygoing trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) takes a shortcut through Kiowa land, he is confronted by a p...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Alastair MacLean's The Guns of Navarone

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A long movie that doesn't seem long is a carefully-crafted motion picture. Such is the case with The Guns of Navarone  (1961), which clo...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Seven Things to Know About Robert Lansing

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1. Robert Lansing was born Robert Howell Brown, but had to change his name when he joined the Actors' Equity Association because another...
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Monday, June 8, 2020

The Alternate TV Series Title Game (British Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic television series and ask you to name the actual show. Most...
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Thursday, June 4, 2020

Wee Geordie Throws a Hammer!

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Bill Travers as the adult Geordie. Young Geordie MacTaggert doesn't like to be called "wee' by the other lads in his rural ...
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Monday, June 1, 2020

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song

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Miyoshi Umeki as Mei Li. My elementary school chorus teacher introduced me to the Broadway musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein. To be sp...
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