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HomeSummer Under the Stars

Summer Under the Stars

Opinion

Clark Gable, My Passion For Living

Aug 25, 2013 Diana Drumm 4

Oh Clark Cable. I am writing this post about you and I hope fellow fans will read it so they know… My heart beats like a hammer and I DVR and I stammer every time […]

Movies

William Holden, the “Golden Boy”

Aug 21, 2013 Brandie Ashe 3

William Holden had a long and storied career in Hollywood, ultimately starring in more than sixty films and garnering an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 1953’s Stalag 17. His breakthrough had come […]

Gregory Peck
Opinion

Gregory Peck Always Makes Me Cry

Aug 15, 2013 Jill Blake 0

Alright, Jill. You can do this. DEEP BREATH. It’s Gregory Peck day on Turner Classic Movies and like any normal, well-adjusted individual, I’ve been digging through online image archives for sexy photos of the man. Don’t […]

Movies

Summer Under the Stars: Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger

Aug 12, 2013 Drew Morton 0

In Tony Scott’s Domino (2005), Mena Suvari plays an entertainment executive who describes her boss’s (Christopher Walken) attention span as being one of “a ferret on crystal meth.” Ironically, this throwaway line of dialogue effectively describes the […]

Movies

Blu-ray Review: The Great Escape

Aug 9, 2013 Jill Blake 1

John Sturges’ The Great Escape tells the true story of the daring prison break attempt at the German Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in March 1944.

Movies

Ramon Novarro: Catholicism, Homosexuality and MGM

Aug 8, 2013 The Retro Set 2

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the balmy, Halloween morning of October 31st 1968, a bloodied corpse was discovered at 3110 Laurel Canyon Blvd in the hills above Hollywood. The body, beaten beyond recognition, belonged to a man who, 40 […]

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