Knownunknowns (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Jo Jo's Jacket Dedicated to my Jo. Stick with it. The song and the video really take off 42 seconds in. Yul Brynner? Check. Singing fingers? Check. All kitten rock band followed by kitten-shaped screen wipe? Check! h/t orbis quintus abstractor of quintessence
Live for Films (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
Director: Michael Crichton Starring: Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Yul Brynner, Majel Barrett, Alan Oppenheimer, Dick Van Patten Running Time: 88 minutes Score: 9 / 10 I got Westworld on DVD from my Wife for Christmas. I watched it last night so thought I would post this excellent review by Brandt Sponseller. It still gets me that they didn't build the lab doors so they could be opened
The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
It's one of Hollywood's grandest success stories: The boy who was Opie Taylor became a top director. He learned the lessons of Mayberry well. And so the documentary Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film carries a nostalgic kick.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 12/28/2008
It's one of Hollywood's grandest success stories: The boy who was Opie Taylor became a top director. He learned the lessons of Mayberry well.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
Now 54, Ron Howard looks back at his long, productive career in the 90-minute program, which debuts at 8 p.m. Monday on TCM.
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Tom: So, Paul Krugman has long wished he could live through a depression? In what field did he earn his doctorate, "sociopathic studies"? If the state's efforts are not enough to create such an environment of suffering, perhaps he could...
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
It's no secret that vehicles like the legendary Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California command astronomical prices at auction. Removed from their historical context and locked up by collectorswho the hell is going to drive an $11-million car?they tend to lose...
Old Horsetail Snake (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
This here is one of them memes that you can take or leave. I got it from my buddy , who splits her time between Chicago and Florida with throw-in trips to Michigan and Norh Carolina. You don't need to know her to love her. It's all about Christmas stuff. 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Neither. I been using newspaper and getting along fine with it. The comics seem to be favored. 2. Real
LINKFINDERS.INFO (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
*CBR 192 / Joint Stereo / Near-Mint Vinyl Source* *"Is There A Santa Claus?"* Submitted by Virginia O'Hanlon I don't know that many viewers remember the many Hollywood characters portrayed by Edward G. Robinson. His roles ran the gamut from gangsters to philanthropists.This is a presentation of his reading of the immortal 1897 NY Sun Times Editorial - "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus" This cut...
Edith Abeyta (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
Death Rage (1976) I can only imagine that Death Rage was meant as some sort of cash in on the success of Yul Brynner's earlier movies because as a film in its own right, it really is severely lacking. This is actually quite a surprise too as it's directed by Antonio Margheriti who, while certainly in the 'B' category of Italian directors active in the seventies, still made some very good films
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
What does a fighter do when his best punch hits an opponent flush on the chin and it only breaks a whisker? That is the quandary facing England as they prepare for tomorrow's second Test against India here.
San Francisco Sentinel (Free subscription) | 12/14/2008
Maria Metropolis, 1927 In Fritz Lang’s classic silent film, the robot Maria incites a full-scale rebellion in a futuristic dystopian world. Gort The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951 A humanoid alien sent to Earth to warn earthlings about the perils of violence and nuclear weaponry, Gort is the guardian of a flying saucer and its pilot. His message, as [...]
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Maria Friedman (pictured) will move from the small-scale to the epic-scale for her next project starring in a new fully staged, in-the-round production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 Broadway classic The King and I, which will run at the...
The Coalition of the Swilling (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
We, your humble (and admittedly, occasionally irreverent: Skyler excepted)(Bill, too) servants on this spinning outerspace sin-globe, beg and entreat Thee ~ on bended knee and scruffy prayer rug ~ that Thou mayest do in all Thy divine power to keepeth...
HillBuzz (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
We find this HILLARIOUS. Campbell Brown suddenly concerns herself with sexism, finding it leveled against Janet Napolitano by Ed Rendell of all people, or at least that’s how Brown imagines it. In whatever world she lives in (where she’s been asleep the last 12 months). Where was Brown the past year when first Hillary Clinton, then Sarah [...]
