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Soylent Green Is (More Than) People

Aug 5, 2013 The Retro Set 2

For people like me belonging to that muddled Gen X/Gen Y transitional hybrid generation (our loyalties are staunchly Gen X, demographic timelines lump us with Gen Y), a film like Richard Fleischer’s Soylent Green was […]

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Calamity Jane, Doris Day and My Parents’ (Almost!) Divorce

Aug 2, 2013 The Retro Set 4

One of the most popular recording artists and movie stars of the mid 20th Century, there’s probably one thing about today’s star that you aren’t aware of: She almost (almost!) single-handedly led to a very […]

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Humphrey Bogart’s Lonely Place

Aug 1, 2013 The Retro Set 4

AFI lists him as the #1 greatest male screen legend of all time, beating out the likes of Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Brando. Woody Allen made an entire film about an obsessive desire to […]

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DVD Review: Executive Suite on Warner Archive

Jul 20, 2013 Jill Blake 5

William Holden was the king of the 1950s. In 1939, he made his debut in Golden Boy alongside his dear friend Barbara Stanwyck. Throughout the 1940s, Holden was absent from Hollywood while he served in […]

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