Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Last week's installment, #5, here. Follow the links at that post to access the other prior films in the series. Farber: "An adroit, scholarly example of sound storytelling that every Message Boy should be made to study as an example...
Travel (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Diane Morton Check out some movie reviews below. If you want to download these movies do some searches to find what is out there. A good movie download search would use phrases such as "Download Movie Rental", "Movies Downloads", and "DVD Online Rental". The Fourth Man: Seductive blond hairdresser Soutendijk might not have murdered 3 of her husband's however absolutely...
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
There was a fairly meager turnout when actor Peter Graves got his star unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame late this morning. Which is sad because the brother of Gunsmoke star James Arness was once a huge presence on TV in the late '60s, starring as Jim Phelps on Mission: Impossible . Not to mention his roles in the movies Stalag 17 , Night of the Hunter , and both Airplane! s. Still, it was not...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Tonight I caught up with a new-to-me John Wayne movie, BIG JIM McLAIN. Wayne plays the title character, a HUAC investigator hunting Communists in Hawaii along with James Arness. In his free time, Jim romances a lovely widow (Nancy Olson) and tours some of the islands' beautiful sights. The movie -- which struck me as something of a precursor to HAWAII FIVE-O -- is a fascinating snapshot of its era...
shubsthoughts (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
We all know about Paul Revere's famous ride. Did you know his horse's name - Brown Betty. Now you do. Did you know that the horse ridden by James Arness (Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke) was the same one ridden by Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza)? Its name was Buck on both series, but its real name was Dunny Waggoner and Greene bought the horse after his series ended. Ulysses S. Grant's horse
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Been a while since we’ve done a Top 5, so I figured it was time. As the title of this post suggests, this is TV cowboys only, so don’t go dropping no Tex Ritter or Clint Eastwood on me, unless you want to go Rowdy Yates (which would be a waste of a spot in [...]
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
John Ford - 1950 Warner Brothers Region 1 DVD Wagon Master is one of the handful of sound era John Ford films that I was never able to see until its DVD debut. Reputedly Ford's favorite of his own...
Edu in Review (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Some of the most well-known men from acting, music, politics and business walked the hollowed halls of campus fraternity houses. For some college men, it’s an ideal setting to be groomed and prepare for life on the other side of school, to create a network of contacts, create lifelong friendships, and find opportunities for career. Here [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
British prosecutors say a flamboyant book dealer accused of stealing a rare First Folio of Shakespeare's plays will face trial next summer.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Drum roll, please. The Smashing Pumpkins have a new member of the band.
Mike's Musings (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
We finished our vacation with a sunset sail on a catamaran sailing from Anaehoomalu Bay. We had a perfect sunset , just enough clouds to make it interesting, but a clear horizon line for the sun to sink through. The boat, the Sea Smoke, was formerly a speed-sailing catamaran owned by James Arness of the TV show Gunsmoke. It has been reconfigured for whale-watching, snorkel cruises, and sunset cruises....
TV.com (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
... The American Idol drama continues in the wake of Paula 's exit -- and Katy Perry and Posh Spice/ Victoria Beckham are entering the fray. Because auditions are scheduled to start, like, now, "our intention is to have guest judges at each of those auditions," Chairman of Fox Entertainment Peter Rice announced this morning at the network's Television Critics Association Press Tour panel...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
The classic western TV series “Gunsmoke,” that ran for 20 seasons, is being rebooted as a feature for CBS Films. James Arness, Milburn Stone and Amanda Blake led the cast of the TV version. CBS has tapped Gregory Poirier (”National Treasure: Book of Secrets”) to write the script. The action-adventure will re-imagine Marshal Matt Dillon, the [...]
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen , OpEd , Reality-Free First there was the news that The Big Valley is going big screen . Now it's Gunsmoke getting the silver screen adaptation . Are westerns coming back and nobody told me? Gunsmoke , the long running CBS western, the series that made a star of James Arness and was a fixture on the Tiffany network from 1955-1975, will be turned into a motion picture....
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
CBS Films hires Gregory Poirier to write a movie based on long-running TV show Gunsmoke.
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