Watching the dance at the gym from West Side Story with my musical theater students (ages 7 - 11) yesterday: - Why are the girls wearing dresses? - Because they're at a dance! What should they be wearing? - I dunno, leggings? - What? - That's Maria. Why do you think she's wearing a white dress? - Because she's the main character. - That's true. Why else? What does the color white mean? (No response.)...
Ann Jillian born 29 January 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her parents are Roman Catholic Lithuanian immigrant who can speak fluent Lithuanian, is an American actress who began acting at age 10. His career reached its zenith in the 1980s, his best known role is that of Cassie Cranston waitress in the series is life. Jillian has [...]
Nov 2200905:17 PM ETby Categories:, If nothing else, NCIS‘ upcoming 150th episode will be remembered for one thing: introducing us to Tony’s dad!Veteran actor Robert Wagner — yes, the former Jonathan Hart himself! — has been cast as the dad of Michael Weatherly’s TV sleuth, sources confirm to me exclusively. Father and son will reunite in NCIS‘ milestone episode,...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe's final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot in a celebrity-filled Los Angeles cemetery.
As celebrity watchers know, big false breasts need to be coated in a layer of orangey-brown varnish lest they shrivel like Lindsay Lohan. It’s something that explains why men who play conkers when young are nine times more likely than a non-conker enthusiast to date a glamour model...
Every good work of art involves an “X Factor,” a goodness (or greatness) that no one can put their finger on. You can call it charisma, magnetism, flair, or vibe; but you never really know what it is or how it functions. That’s why we can’t explain why we like all the things we like. Some things we like “just because.” The parts of our taste for which we have no...
The late Soupy Sales was a great comic who achieved his great fame through television but never had much of a film career. His one starring role, 1966’s “Birds Do It,” is essentially impossible to see. Given two of the comments currently on IMDb, perhaps for a reason. Nevertheless, his pie throwing and receiving savvy tickled [...]
There was a farce comedy movie back in the 60s called “The Great Race”. It starred Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, just about anybody who was farcical comedies back then. It was a fake movie, more or less based on real events, the actual 1908 New York-to-Paris race, and Tony [...]
The crypt above Marilyn Monroe is going back on the auction block. In a bid to ward off foreclosure on her Los Angeles home, local widow Elsie Poncher first attempted to auction off her late husband’s crypt above the iconic film siren last August, but the $4.6 million winning bid fell through. Bidding for the marble [...]
By Saundra Valenzuela It used to be that you had to go to the video store to get a movie. Now, with internet usage exploding, movie downloads are becoming very popular. Let's look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site. Jack Be Nimble: Strange, smart little chiller in which the title personality is adopted into a family of bad people and he is neglected completely. So he sets...
Note: This is #40 in my 52 Classic Movies in 52 Weeks challenge for 2009. A while back I decided to better myself by not using epithets like "super gay" to describe things. I mention this only because it makes describing my first impression of West Side Story kind...