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Kevin McCarthy, Lana Turner, and George Hamilton. 1.  Harold Robbins' The Survivors (1969-70). Novelist Harold Robbins was still churning out lurid bestsellers when he was approached to create a prime-time series. The result was this nighttime soap about the jet set starring Lana Turner, Georg read more

Kevin McCarthy, Lana Turner, and George Hamilton. 1.  Harold Robbins' The Survivors (1969-70). Novelist Harold Robbins was still churning out lurid bestsellers when he was approached to create a prime-time series. The result was this nighttime soap about the jet set starring Lana Turner, Georg read more

From Lyle Talbot's rather bored look, you'd get the mistaken impression that "No More Orchids" is among Carole Lombard's least interesting pictures. Far from it. And while I can't quite call it a four-star classic, it's at least a 2 1/2-star movie, and in more charitable moods I might raise my ratin read more

From Lyle Talbot's rather bored look, you'd get the mistaken impression that "No More Orchids" is among Carole Lombard's least interesting pictures. Far from it. And while I can't quite call it a four-star classic, it's at least a 2 1/2-star movie, and in more charitable moods I might raise my ratin read more

Once more, the invaluable weekly roundup; as Todd says, “Olivia de Havilland gets some extra attention this week.” Click HERE to be whisked off to Todd’s Sweet Freedom site for the individual links.   Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting u read more

Yes, it’s another episode of the useful roundup (click HERE for all the individual links). This week, for once, let Todd do his own introducing of it: The weekly roundup of reviews, interviews, and other citations of (often, though not always) underappreciated examples of the dramatic and rela read more

The adventure continues . . . I know that there’s been a pretty hefty gap since my last post on this year’s TCM Film Festival – I have to admit that a series of real-life events, like my younger daughter’s prom, ballet recital, and graduation (sniff!) intervened, and knocked me a bit off track. read more

Yes, it’s that time of the week again! Here’s another episode of Todd’s great roundup of movie/av goodies from around the blogosphere. Click the WORMHOLE button to be transported to Todd’s Sweet Freedom blog and all the individual links. Fill in your details below or click an read more

The Beast from Beauty and the Beast. The good news is that 2015 saw a renewed interest in classic foreign language films. One of my favorite classic movie bloggers, Richard Finch, created a Foreign Film Classics group on Facebook. It now boasts over 725 active members who enthusiastically share the read more

The Beast from Beauty and the Beast. The good news is that 2015 saw a renewed interest in classic foreign language films. One of my favorite classic movie bloggers, Richard Finch, created a Foreign Film Classics group on Facebook. It now boasts over 725 active members who enthusiastically share the read more

The latest installment of Todd’s roundup of relevant writings on the blogosphere. For the individual links, click HERE. Thanks, as always! It might actually be getting too long…but, of course, I hope people follow the links at the links to all the other wonders and at least items of inte read more

Yet another edition of the excellent Todd Mason’s useful roundup from the titans of the blogosphere. Click HERE to be transported through cyberspace to Todd’s Sweet Freedom site, where you’ll find the individual links to all the articles.   Fill in your details below or click read more

At the end of May TCM announced Tiffany Vazquez as their new on-air correspondent, covering films on Saturday afternoons (with the unspoken implication of expanding her further). From TCM’s first “Ultimate Fan” to regular host, Vazquez’s rise to prominence is a fairy tale any read more

And again the invaluable weekly roundup from Todd Mason of the Sweet Freedom blog. Click HERE for all the individual links.     Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You ar read more

More than mistaken identity Perhaps you’ve seen this type of slideshow from lifedaily before. They’re usually links posted beneath a news story on that news company’s Web site and tend toward gossip. Most of the time I ignore these slideshows, but I clicked on this one because read more

Another valuable roundup from Todd. Click HERE to be transported to his Sweet Freedom blog for all the individual links. And HERE‘s that link again. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Chan read more

Another week, another dollar (or not, as the case might be: a publisher is being slow to pay me), and here’s the latest installment of Todd Mason’s invariably useful set of compilations of the best movie writings around the blogosphere. Click HERE[*] to venture through space and time to read more

Once more, Todd’s handy guide to what’s going on in the blogosphere. Click HERE to find yourself magically transported to Todd’s Sweet Freedom blog, where you’ll find all the individual links. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using yo read more

It was the best of times, it was the best of times. Again. The 2016 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood, California, was the bomb dot com. The bomb diggity. It was off the chain. Off the hook. Off the heezy. For sheezy. If you know what I mean. This year marked my fourth time attending read more

The red carpet. (It’s under there somewhere!) The adventure continues . . . At the last two TCM Film Festivals, I had an “Essential” pass, which allowed me to walk the red carpet for the opening night film. For this event, you get all gussied up and kind of rub elbows with the star read more