Mega-mortgages
LA Biz Observed (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Bev Hills billionaire Ron Burkle has $56 million in loans against his two houses. The McCourts have borrowed $28 million on their properties.
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This week in Television History: November 2009 PART 1
CHILD OF TELEVISION (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Listen to me on TV CONFIDENTIAL with Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte Broadcast LIVE every other Monday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio . The program will then be repeated Tuesday thru Sunday at the same time (10pm ET, 7pm PT) on Shokus Radio for the next two weeks, and then will be posted on line at our archives page at TVConfidential.net . As always, the further we go back in Hollywood...
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Never Weaken (1921)
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
USA Short Film Director: Fred C. Newmeyer Writers: H.M. Walker, Hal Roach, Sam Taylor Cinematographer: Walter Lundin Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Mark Jones, Charles Stevenson, William Gillespie When the job of his sweetheart, who works as a receptionist for an osteopath, is threatened due to a lack of patients, Harold sets out, rather unethically, in search of some; but when he returns,...
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Old School Horror
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
This week in the New York Times, the first of a two part round-up of recent horror film releases, which for some reason seem to proliferate in late October, looks at some examples of old school horror, before the gore revolution of the late 60s. Included are “The Walking Dead” (1936), one of the [...]
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50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 11
Walt at Random (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Behave Yourself, 1951, b&w. George Beck (dir.), Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest, Francis L. Sullivan, Margalo Gillmore, Lon Chaney Jr., Hans Conried, Elisha Cook Jr., Glenn Anders, Allen Jenkins, Sheldon Leonard, Marvin Kaplan. 1:21. The plot: A CPA (Granger), somewhat browbeaten by his mother-in-law, realizes almost too late that it’s his 2nd Anniversary. He goes [...]
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The Sunday Intertitle / Congruence 3
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
I had a pretty good time delivering my first lecture of the year at Edinburgh College of Art on Monday (on the history and uses of the long take), and then a really good time screening silent comedies on Tuesday evening — Chaplin’s A DOG’S LIFE, Harold Lloyd in FROM HAND TO MOUTH, and Keaton’s [...]
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Award-winning Chef Suzanne Goin's Lucques Catering to Cater the 16th Annual SAG Awards
"Bank on California" Money Launderi (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Los Angeles - Lucques Catering, under the direction of James Beard Award-winning chef Suzanne Goin and front-of-the-house expert Caroline Styne, will cater the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards., SAG Awards. Committee chair JoBeth Williams announced today. This 16th annual celebration of the y...... more
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Just hanging around
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
No series of posts about clocks would be complete without this: I didn't realise how funny Harold Lloyd was until a couple of months ago. I was staying in deepest Norfolk at the cottage of a friend...
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2009 Cambridge Film Festival: day four
Tom Catchesides' photoblog (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
I'm in danger of sounding like a stuck record, but the fourth day of the 2009 Cambridge Film Festival was full of interesting events and screenings. The First Day of the Rest of Your Life was presented by director Remi Bezancon, but before the screening could start there was the important business of punting down the Cam to attend to. Once I'd shown him how to get started, Remi was a natural: The...
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About 10 Excellent Film Write Ups
CompTIA Network+ (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
In the past you had to go to a store if you wanted to rent or buy a movie. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. You will find just about any movie you want with a good movie download site, below is a small sample.
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Sometimes God plays dirty
Record of a baffled spirit (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
The second great love of my life was Moira McDowall. Unfortunately God got in first and she became a nun. If this had been a Hollywood film she’d have been played by Audrey Hepburn. Trouble is I can’t really see who’d play me. Harold Lloyd perhaps. During the time when things were going wrong we continued with a cycling holiday in Brittany that we’d already booked. I spent a...
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Young crew hopes low-budget movie jump starts their careers
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Christopher Gorham, the nerdy accountant Henry on ABC's "Ugly Betty," is celebrating his birthday on a sidewalk in Ann Arbor.
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Total Recall
news from me (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Recently here, I mentioned that if you wanted a region-free DVD player, Wal-Mart has a model — the Durabrand — that'll play just about anything and which sells for peanuts. I don't have one of these but a number of...
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The Conquering Zero
news from me (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Our pal Jim Brochu is playing Zero Mostel in our nation's capitol. The Washington Times likes him....
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Only Make Believe
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Somewhere between Elvis and Roy Orbison came Harold Jenkins - aka Conway Twitty: No bridge, no middle eight, no build-up - just the verse repeated three times, each verse building up to that same intensity. Originally released as a B...