"[W]ith the recent passing of Ernest Borgnine (Marty, 1961) and now Celeste Holm (Gentleman's Agreement, 1947) today..."

"... who is now the longest-ago Oscar winner in each of the five major categories who's still living?" For Best Actress, it ha...

"What Audrey does in 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s' is not uninteresting, but it is far from the modern woman..."

"...  even the one introduced to American audiences in the persons of Bette Davis, Irene Dunne, Margaret Sullavan, the other Hepburn (t...

"Being read your death sentence is like being a character in one of the old Bette Davis movies."

Bob Novak tells the story of learning about his huge brain tumor and his approximately 6 months left to live. Here's the movie: AND: Ke...

Goodbye, Kitty.

Kitty Carlisle Hart has died : "the supremely elegant actress, singer, arts advocate and TV personality" was 96. I remember seeing...

Burt Young is spamming me!

A second comment proves it. [Previous incident: here .] Did you know Burt Young 's first film role was "Gimpy, the hunchback"...

Those 100 AFI quotes.

Okay, I'm game . I'll TiVo-blog, numbering each entry. Watch for continuous updates. Ah, it's good to be simulblogging again! 1....

Fall movie preview.

The big Fall movie preview issue of Entertainment Weekly arrived in the mail today, and on the cover is my personal favorite actor, Johnny D...

High contempt on the Jack Paar Show. I watched the first of the full-length episodes of the Tonight Show on The Jack Paar Collection . It i...

Courtney Love ... Richard Perle ... Jessica Simpson. It was fun clicking from Letterman to Nightline to Leno and back again last night. Cou...

There's a nice piece in The New Yorker about Larry David : “It was a Korean deli, and we were waiting to pay, and we started making fun ...