Boy, I really really really don’t agree with this list of the 50 greatest, as decreed by 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors asked by the British Film Institute. Beginning with their #1, “Vertigo,” a ho-hum Hitchcock movie with really … Continue reading →
Well, not exactly.
Continue reading →…but this announcement makes me very, very sad. Ah, but who believes the government, anyway? Today it’s “no mermaids,” but tomorrow they’ll say there are no unicorns, and that the space alien autopsy videos are bogus. The nerve! When I … Continue reading →
The news that Nora Ephron has died at 71 took me by surprise. I had no idea she was even ill, but it was more than that—she was just so funny (which is a stupid thing to say, I know, … Continue reading →
You’ll never guess who this is from looking at it, even though it’s a very famous person who’s usually instantly recognizable: It’s Groucho Marx without his trademark mustache and bushy eyebrows or eyeglasses. And to me it looks a lot … Continue reading →
You be the judge. Here’s actress Brenda Marshall (for many years William Holden’s wife): And here’s actress Geena Davis: I rest my case.
Continue reading →In yesterday’s thread about the undeserving poor, commenter IGotBupkis took aim at the musical “My Fair Lady” versus the movie version of the play “Pygmalion.” His comment was rather long (go here to read the whole thing), but I’ll excerpt … Continue reading →
An exchange in the comments section of this post made me think of one of my favorite scenes from “My Fair Lady.” It’s a discourse on the welfare system by Eliza’s ne-er-do-well father, Alfred Doolittle: Here it is: And here’s … Continue reading →
So all right already—Obama was a stoner in high school. Didn’t we already know that? And although the photos are rather interesting in a retro-70s way, do we really care? Not all that much, although it certainly tells us some … Continue reading →
A fun juxtaposition, sent to me by a reader: Madonna’s got absolutely nothing on Rita Hayworth. Watch Hayworth make an incredibly sensuous strip tease out of taking off a single glove: Hayworth couldn’t sing; all her movie songs were dubbed, … Continue reading →
What do you get when you cross the TV show “Survivor” with the Roman Colosseum, “The Lottery,” dystopian sci-fi, Lord of the Flies, “The Most Dangerous Game,” and “The Wizard of Oz,” and then pitch it to the audience for … Continue reading →
Here’s a PJ article on the 5 worst and 5 best James Bond theme songs. My question is: why, why, why is there no “Dr. No” there among the best? Is it because there was no conventional “song” (with words, … Continue reading →