Day 29: Glenda Farrell
Thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday’s tribute to Shirley Jones. Please make sure to check out all the wonderful contributions to Jones. For the next 24 hours we honor the lovely Glenda...
View ArticleDay 30: Kirk Douglas
Thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday’s tribute to Glenda Farrell. Please make sure to check out all the wonderful contributions dedicated to Farrell. For the next 24 hours we honor a...
View ArticleDay 31: Rex Harrison
Thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday’s tribute to Kirk Douglas. Please make sure you check out the great contributions to Doulgas. We close out our 2013 Summer Under the Stars Blogathon...
View Article2013 SUTS Blogathon: That’s A Wrap!
The curtain has closed on another successful Summer Under the Stars Blogathon. Huge thanks to all the participants in this year’s event. And of course thanks goes to my co-host, Michael Nazarewycz of...
View ArticleBeloved Infidel from Twilight Time
In 1933, British gossip columnist Sheilah Graham arrived in New York to accept a position writing for The New York Mirror and The Evening Journal. After two years establishing herself in the...
View ArticleCasper, Classism, and Cheap Candy
Poor Casper. All he wants is to be a normal boy, running and playing with all the other kids, but he can’t because he’s dead. It’s rather morbid, if you stop to think about it. He’s forced to float...
View ArticleAn interesting face (and some talent) go a long way: Sterling Holloway
“Sterling Holloway brings a new type of comedy to the screen as different as he himself is in the Hollywood galaxy.” Where there are leading men and women to light up the marquis and draw in the...
View ArticleWilliam Wyler’s Love Letter to His Comrades in Arms: The Best Years of Our Lives
In the opening shot of William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), CAPT Fred Derry walks into an airport terminal in hopes of catching a flight home to Boone City, USA. Upon reaching the clerk...
View ArticleMy Favorite Saturday Morning Memories
Growing up, I spent my Saturday mornings in front of the television watching pals Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes crew, Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, its later...
View Article2014 TCM Classic Film Festival: Three is a Magic Number
This Monday, April 7th, I’ll board a giant-ass Delta plane in Atlanta (we’re more than a Delta hub) and fly to Los Angeles for the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival. This year TCM is celebrating their...
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