Southern Appeal (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Well, not exactly. But this study indicates that the suppression of ovulation might have a long-term effect on women’s taste in men. When ovulating, women prefer more virile, assertive men; the rest of the time, they incline toward the more boyish, gentle type. Hence, the argument runs, suppress ovulation for large numbers of women over [...]
Jabberwock (Free subscription) | yesterday
... truncheon!). In the opposite corner are six prisoners led by the handsome, brooding Joe Collins (Burt Lancaster). They share a cell and plan a breakout together, but they all seem more victims of circumstance than hardened criminals – ill-suited to any sort of jail, much less an overcrowded, unhygienic one supervised by Gay Hitler. The other authority figures are weak foils...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I've tried for nearly an hour to find an online PDF of Wendell Mayes' script for Go Tell The Spartans, or a transcript of the film's dialogue -- same difference. I'm in love with a soliloquy spoken by Burt Lancaster, playing Major Asa Barber, as he tells a young soldier (played, I think, by Craig Wasson) why he'd been demoted from the rank of Colonel a few years back. Lancaster/Barber...
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... States. 1898 – Cheer-leading began at the University of Minnesota …Give me an “M”! 1913 – Actor Burt Lancaster was born …”From Here to Eternity”? 1914 – Actor Ray Walston was born …to be “My Favorite Martian” and to have “Fast Times at Ridgmont High” as Mr. Hand! 1920 – KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania became the 1st commercial radio station …it began broadcasting with the results...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... Hollywood hipness. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Mickey Rooney, Jerry Lewis and even Burt Lancaster all received custard facials on his show.
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... whose lives baseball has touched, from the kindly small-town doctor Archibald “Moonlight” Graham (Burt Lancaster) to Kinsella’s long-estranged father (Dwier Brown), who once hoped to bridge the gulf between him and his son by playing a simple game of catch, as well as the living and thoroughly disillusioned radical writer Terence Mann (the always excellent James Earl Jones), who at...
San Diego Blog (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... Harding, 29th U.S. President, died of a heart attack while in office (1921-1923) November 2, 1913- Burt Lancaster, actor November 2, 1920- Ann Rutherford, actress November 2, 1924- Ray Walston, actor November 2, 1938- Pat Buchanan, journalist, presidential candidate November 2, 1942- Stephanie Powers, actress, starred in "Hart To Hart" November 3, 1793- Stephen Austin, defeated Mexican...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
In the 1968 film “The Swimmer”, starring Burt Lancaster, the hero hits on the idea of getting home by swimming the length of various pools owned by his rich friends in a leafy north-eastern US state.
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... to be cream-faced, including Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Sammy Davis Jr., Dick Martin and Burt Lancaster. I guess his show must have been in re-runs when I was a kid, because I remember watching the Soupy Sales Show, and always knowing who he was. Or maybe Mama Shakes had his albums? Possibly both. I kinda love his show/shtick in the same way, and for similar reasons, that I love...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... to be cream-faced, including Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Sammy Davis Jr., Dick Martin and Burt Lancaster. Soupy's show was a big part of my childhood, partly because I could only watch it at my grandparent's house in Newark as we didn't get it in North Carolina. Watching Soupy was a big holiday tradition for us whenever we were in town. My dad thought he was the funniest man alive...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Joseph Wiseman, the Canadian-born actor best known for his deliciously evil portrayal of the James Bond villain, Dr. No, passed away yesterday at age 91. Wiseman appeared in a slew of Broadway productions, television shows, and movies such as Viva Zapata! with Marlon Brando and The Unforgiven with Burt Lancaster. But he will always be
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... to chew the scenery as a one-eyed evangelist in John Huston's The Unforgiven (1960), starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn. On Broadway, he played the homosexual gangster Eddie Fuselli in a 1952 revival of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy (Elia Kazan played the role in the original 1937 production), and was the Inquisitor to Julie Harris' Joan of Arc in Lillian Hellman's translation...
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... direct such films as The Miracle Worker . In the year before Mickey One , Penn had been fired by Burt Lancaster (who had also been the force behind his hiring) as the director of The Train , and had just directed a Broadway flop that closed after only two performances. Penn made extensive use of Chicago locations - the dark side - from auto graveyards, to skid rows, back alleys and...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... to be cream-faced, including Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Sammy Davis Jr., Dick Martin and Burt Lancaster. “I’ve never done a pretentious show; it’s always had a live feeling, the kind of thing that comes across when you don’t know what’s going to happen next,” Sales told author Gary Grossman in the 1981 book “Saturday Morning TV.” “I’ve never done anything simply because I thought...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... to be cream-faced, including Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Sammy Davis Jr., Dick Martin and Burt Lancaster."I've never done a pretentious show; it's always had a live feeling, the kind of thing that comes across when you don't know what's going to happen next," Sales told author Gary Grossman in the 1981 book "Saturday Morning TV." "I've never done anything simply because I thought...
