Philip French's Screen legends: No 32, French MacMurray 1908-91
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
No 32: French MacMurray 1908-91
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
No 32: French MacMurray 1908-91
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
John DiLeo reviews four biographies for the Washington Post: Robert Wagner's Pieces of My Heart: A Life, Marc Eliot's Reagan: The Hollywood Years, Bernard F Dick's Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty and Joseph Epstein's Fred Astaire. "One of...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Tonight's Palin/Biden Vice Presidential Debate will be moderated by Barbadian descendent Gwen Ifill BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- With elections right around the corner, US visitors to Barbados have been amazed to discover the many links between past and present US presidential candidates and Barbados. With tonight's Vice Presidential Debate being led by Gwen Ifill, who is of Barbadian...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Cleopatra, Last Queen of Egypt. By Joyce Tyldesley. Basic Books. 304 pages. $27.50. Cleopatra has generated more fame - in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films - per known fact than any woman in history.
State Journal Featured Content (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Paramount prepares to roll out red carpet for hollywood star.
The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
By Colonel Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.) Editor’s Note: As usual, FSM readers today have the opportunity to read Ken Allard’s column, which is presented here just as he prepared it earlier this week for the San Antonio Express News. Unfortunately, the Express-News informed him on Wednesday that - allegedly for budgetary reasons - they would [...]
goatdogblog (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
In this, the seventh episode of Best Pictures from the Outside In, Nathaniel, Nick, and I finally have some serious disagreements: is It Happened One Night absolutely perfect, or only nearly so? Can one really get enough of Claudette Colbert...
Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987 - Louis Malle) - Beautifully told story of an event from Malle's past - a sheltered Jewish boy being removed from the Catholic school he attended - is likely going to lead me down the path of investigating the rest of his stuff. "My Dinner With Andre" didn't quite do it for me (I found Wallace Shawn's character far more interesting than Andre), but both "Murmur Of
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Let's Make it Legal Richard Sale - 1951 20th Century Fox Region 1 DVD Quicksand Irving Pichel - 1950 Image Region 1 DVD The biggest irony of Barbara Bates career is that she is best known for a very...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
My apologies if you woke up this morning thinking: "It's only one more day until the new episode of Best Pictures From the Outside In arrives" You'd be wrong. It's not showing up till next Wednesday. sorry Claudette Colbert is bored with my excuses (pictured above) so I shan't inflict them on you. So next Wednesday we'll be discussing both It Happened One Night (1934) and A Beautiful Mind (2001) right...
Mock, Paper, Scissors (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
NHatky (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
Himesh is all set to do an Aamir Khan Like Emraan Hashmi, it looks like even Himesh Reshamiya has successfully registered his name in the Bhatt camp's favourites' list. Where Himesh is still busy shooting for Pooja Bhatt's Kajraare, dad Mahesh Bhatt has already thought upon signing the actor for his another ...
Celeb Spin (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Estelle Getty, who won an Emmy and a Golden Globe as the tart-tongued Sophia Petrillo – mother of Bea Arthur’s character – on TV’s The Golden Girls, has died. She was 84. Getty’s longtime manager, Alan Siegel, said on Tuesday: “As of 5:35 this morning, surrounded by her family in her Hollywood Hills home, Estelle Getty [...]
People (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
The actress was surrounded by her family in her Hollywood Hills home
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
The simultaneous release by Universal Studios Home Entertainment of DVD editions of two popular romantic farces from the late 1930s, "Easy Living" (which co-stars Jean Arthur and Ray Milland) and "Midnight" (which co-stars Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche), calls attention to their enduring entertainment value.