Celebrating cinematic folk, born on this day 11/23 . Get out your kazoos. Franco, Maxwell and Harpo. Half of the fun of building these posts is these completely nonsensical groupings! 1859 Billy the Kid , outlaw. I've always thought it a mystery as to exactly why people routinely idolize characters whom they would never want to meet in real life. Murderers, criminals, thieves, (especially gangsters)...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, the school founded in 1969 by the legendary acting guru, who died in 1982, and his wife, Anna Strasberg, who is still carrying the torch of...
DALLAS, Nov. 19 -- If your family gives you more indigestion at Thanksgiving than the turkey, Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI, BBI.B) has a list of movies that will help you see it's all relative. In a recent poll conducted on blockbuster.com, movie fans named...
Look, no one's arguing with a young Paul Newman. And #21 is going to make any musical-lover's heart go pitter-pat. But we've got some important additions to Life's list of the Sexiest Men of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Arcadia Pictures is set to produce the new film directed by Mateo Gil (who wrote Vanilla Sky, the remake of Abre Los Ojos), called Blackthorn. It's going to be a sequel, of sorts, to the classic Redford/Newman film Butch Cassidy...
perseverate \per-SEV-uh-reyt\, intransitive verb: To involuntarily repeat a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder. To repeat something insistently or redundantly. Perseverate is a back formation of perseveration from Middle French perseveration from Old French and classical Latin...
After performing much charity during his life, Paul Newman’s friends are throwing a fundraiser in his namesake. This posthumous charitable event will be going towards helping a children’s camp for kids with life-threatening illnesses. Newman was well known for his charity work, even much of the proceeds from his “Newman’s Own” brand foods went towards good [...] This post...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Paul Newman's career was so prolific that any collection of his movies would naturally be incomplete. But "Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection" has some big omissions and who-cares inclusions that prevent it from being a masterpiece....
Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume; 15 February 1931) : Bloom was born in the North London suburb of Finchley, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Grew) and Edward Max Blume, who worked in sales. Her paternal grandparents, originally named Blumenthal, as well as her maternal grandparents, originally named Griewski, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. ... She was chosen by Charlie Chaplin...
Welcome to the second Sidepodfilmclub event, where we all grab our laptops and live comment our way through a film. This week, we're watching Cars, the Disney/Pixar spectacular, which is all about NASCAR. We've only done two films and they've both been about NASCAR. We'll have to address that soon!
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