The Daily(ish) Millbrook (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The world tour of Millbrook being undertaken by Film Club continued last Sunday with a date at Slocombe's petite abode; adding to the throng we had the third appearance at Film Club by Helen who also kindly offered to host the next session on Sunday week (that's the 29 th , film fans). So as always, we hope the usual suspects can make it along - just remember it's another new venue! Anyway there we...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² . Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José...
fictions (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke IDW Publishing. Bloody hell, this is good. Darwyn Cooke has taken Richard Stark’s hard boiled criminal novel and perfectly distilled it’s elements into possibly the best crime graphic novel you’ll have read for a long time. The art’s exceptional, as you may have expected from Cooke. But this beats anything he’s done...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Highly Recommended You know who finally killed Eliot Ness? Capone? Nitti? Moran? Nah...it was Mitch "Sing Along with Mitch" Miller. The astonishing ratings success of The Untouchables in its second season was matched only by its equally spectacular long walk off a short pier...with concrete overshoes...during this third 1961-1962 season. And that's too bad because the writing stayed strong...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Back in September we heard that Night at the Museum and Date Night director Shawn Levy might be doing a movie called Real Steel, which depicts a world in which people get their kicks watching robots beat the hell out of each other. Then we heard that Hugh Jackman was the frontrunner as the lead role. Now Levy is out promoting Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian on DVD, and he's confirmed...
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
To be honest...I've never really liked Doc Savage in comics. I'll grant you, the Milennium Comics run hit the right spot, but pulp characters are often hard to translate into comics. Sometimes, you just have to plop them into their own world (much like Tim Truman did with The Spider and give them enough juice to make it through. Fortunately, Brian Azzarello has taken Doc, mixed him and Batman (one...
Film Forno (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Columbia Pictures just released a film noir box set of 5 dvds, all of them classics. There’s Edward Dymytrk’s The Sniper an early serial killer story set in San Francisco and starring Monster On The Campus leading man Arthur Franz. Martin Scorsese adds a commentary. Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat starring Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin and [...]
The Comic Book Catacombs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Please join me in thanking the thousands upon thousands of currently serving American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who are deployed across the nation and the globe for providing a living shield that protects us all. These men and women are standing in harms way, and they are comprised of an all-volunteer force! Let's also pause to remember all of those who went before, whether they made the...
The Beard Trio (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
from the Daily Telegraph 10 The Bridge on the River Kwai The lavish production that launched Lean into the big league is grand, grown-up and full of eye-popping set pieces and moral complexity. 9 The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich, 1967 Real-life former marine Lee Marvin has to mould 12 convicted murderers into a crack unit to assassinate a slew of SS officers. Entertaining sparring leads to a dark climax....
The Age (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Michelle Triola Marvin, whose landmark alimony-without-marriage court case against Dirty Dozen actor Lee Marvin, her former boyfriend, helped lead to the concept of 'palimony' settlements for unmarried partners, has died of lung cancer at home in Malibu. She was 76, and shared a home with actor and writer Dick Van Dyke.
ContractsProf Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Michelle Triola Marvin, who lived with Lee Marvin for six years and then sued for her share of the income he had earned during the relationship, has died at the age of 76. Ms. Marvin was the plaintiff in the...
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
On Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, Michelle Triola Marvin passed away. Michelle Triola Marvin petitioned the courts for half of the income earned by Lee Marvin, her former live-in boyfriend, when the couple broke-up years ago. Although "[s]he ultimately received no...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
LOS ANGELES -- Michelle Triola Marvin, whose landmark lawsuit against her former lover, "Dirty Dozen" actor Lee Marvin, placed the word "palimony" into the family law lexicon and changed the legal rights of unmarried cohabiting partners, died Friday at age 76. She underwent surgery for lung cancer last year and died at the Malibu home of actor Dick Van Dyke, her partner of 30 years,...
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Michelle Triola Marvin, whose landmark lawsuit against her former lover, Dirty Dozen actor Lee Marvin, placed the word “palimony” into family law and changed the legal rights of unmarried partners, has died at 76.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
(AP) -- Michelle Triola Marvin, who fought a landmark ``palimony'' case against her former lover, actor Lee Marvin, has died. She was 76.<p/> A family spokesman says Marvin died Friday morning of lung cancer at the Malibu home she shared with partner actor Dick Van Dyke.
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