News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
SCOTS workers are less likely to call in sick, amid fears over their jobs in the current economic climate, research out today will suggest.
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Click Here to download full episode Gary Cooper gives an Oscar-winning performance as a Western lawman forced to take on an old nemesis single-handedly when the townspeople turn yellow. If you pay attention, this film is shot almost in real time between 10:35 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Grace Kelly, Lon Chaney Jr., Lloyd Bridges and Ian [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
JAMES BOND legend SIR ROGER MOORE is convinced he looked like a "dirty old man" as the superspy - because he grew too old for the part. The actor played the suave ...
American Spectator (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Old Hollywood peaked that year, giving us everything from Gunga Din to Gone With the Wind to Stagecoach to The Women -- which is why you'll want to miss the new remake of the last.
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Josh Olson, the Oscar-nominated writer of A History of Violence, is set to pen the screen version of One Shot, a suspense novel about an ex-army policeman. Josh has indicated, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, that he wants to bring back the "tough, smart, action-oriented" spirit ...
Lost in the Frame (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Julie London and Gary Cooper in Man of the West (dir. Anthony Mann, 1958). This film--its story, presentation of character, plot movement, implied heroic code--is best watched as one would attend to the speech of one's patient (assuming one is a therapist) on the psychiatric couch. The same could be said for the bulk of classic Hollywood narrative cinema, especially in genres like the Western: genres,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
To the Editor: Related (September 28, 2008) Re “Paul Newman, a Magnetic Titan of Hollywood for a Half-Century, Is Dead at 83” (front page, Sept. 28):I turned 82 this summer, and for women of my generation, actors like Paul Newman, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart turned up regularly on our local movie screens. We counted on them to bring excitement, humor and sex appeal into our lives....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Once tipped as the next Gary Cooper, Kevin Costner has metamorphosed into Hollywood's awkward outsider who backs films in which he believes, says Tom Leonard.
Dr. X's Free Associations (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Gary Cooper & Miriam Hopkines (Design for Living, 1933). Left-click to enlarge. More Gary Cooper with Paramount Stars (1927); The Pope; Ayn Rand & King Vidor; Shirley Temple; Leslie Fenton, Lane Chandler & Rowland V. Lee;
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
By Quint, Barbara Serendipity is a wonderful thing.
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
It was the golden age of Hollywood, a time when movies defined who we were and what we did. But it was also the golden age of tobacco sponsorship.
Room Eight (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Perhaps I’d underestimated John McCain. Yesterday, I made fun of his “suspending” his campaign until Congress passed some sort of plan to address the meltdown of our markets. At the time he made his announcement, Congress seemed poise to pass a flawed plan which bore some resemblance to the even more flawed proposal put forward by the President. As negotiations proceeded, leaders from both parties...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Report shows that American Tobacco paid film stars thousands to promote cigarettes in the late 1930s and 1940s
Business World (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
PARIS â Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Bob Hope, Henry Fonda and other stars of Hollywoodâs "Golden Age" were paid millions of dollars in todayâs money for promoting cigarettes, a study published on Thursday said.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Remember the glamour days of smoking when such stars as Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall puffed their way into Hollywood legend? When images of John Wayne and Gary Cooper, cigarette in hand, symbolized virility? And Joan Crawford lighting a cigarette was the epitome of elegance? Today's movie indu
