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Classic movies in Music Videos: Alright by Janet Jackson
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Sep 29, 2011
You thought that I forgot September’s installment of music videos that feature either classic movie stars, movies or reference classic movies-well you would be correct. But I have it squeezed in just before the month ends! This Janet Jackson’s 1990 song “Alright” is getting read more
Jessica Pickens: Girl Reporter
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Sep 27, 2011
Comet Over Hollywood is moving! Well…not the blog, but the blogger! The backstory Ever since I’ve been in the fourth grade I wanted to be a writer. I had a big imagination and pictured myself on the cover of Good Housekeeping magazine with my best seller. In high school I got more interested read more
Fashion in Films blogathon: I guess I’m easily influenced
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Sep 24, 2011
Old movies have influenced my life in many ways, fashion is one of them. When my classic film love started to really kick up in the middle school, I noticed fashion the most in the movies. I always looked for the fashion designers during the credits and became familiar with Givenchy, Edith Head, read more
CMBA Guilty Pleasures Blogathon: A Summer Place (1959)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Sep 20, 2011
Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee in "A Summer Place" (1959) I have three main guilty pleasures: ridiculous, flashy clothes; Krispy Kreme doughnuts and trashy classic films. I love pre-code 1930s films because of their quick witted lines, snappy pace and how down trodden women somehow pull them read more
Strangers on a Train under the stars
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Sep 16, 2011
Favorite part of the movie In the past year I’ve read several posts about other bloggers going to screenings of classic films. Angela at ‘Hollywood Revue” went to see “White Christmas” during the holidays and I thought it sounded so nice when everyone sang along at the read more
Actress Beauty Tip #16: Marlene Mascara
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Sep 5, 2011
Marlene Dietrich with her intense eyes and high cheek bones This is the sixteenth installment of the monthly classic actress beauty tips that I have read about and tested. Marlene Dietrich is known for her glamour: her golden hair, prominent cheek bones, fashion forward style and perfect legs. Diet read more
Take me out to the ball game: Athlete Biopics
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Aug 30, 2011
Biographical films have been a popular film genre since the 1920s. There are films about actors that you may have never heard of, scientists who did great things and musicians who died young. It is no secret Hollywood took creative liberties with the lives of famous people in their films. To quote read more
Classic Movies in Music Videos: Thriller by Michael Jackson
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Aug 18, 2011
We have another installment of music videos that feature either classic movie stars, movies or reference classic movies. I’m not sure how during I forgot about “Thriller” relating to classic film. This one is so obvious and I forgot about it until my sister and I were listening t read more
You can’t get a role with a gun: the story behind “Annie Get Your Gun”
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Aug 16, 2011
I had always read that “Annie Get Your Gun” was a horrible experience for Betty Hutton. Actors and stage workers were cold towards her, she wasn’t invited to the movie premiere and MGM wasn’t the warm home she found at Paramount. For years, I read this treatment was attributed to the fact that read more
Actress Beauty Tip #15: Bette Davis Eyes
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Aug 2, 2011
Young Bette Davis This is the fifteenth installment of our monthly classic actress beauty tips that I have read about and tested. Bette Davis is known for her eyes. There is a cheesy song that emulates them, people reference them all the time. I came across a beauty regiment of Bette’s that I read more
What happened to Carole Landis?
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jul 22, 2011
My sophomore year of high school I had one of the best teacher’s I’ve ever had during my student career. Her name was Leslie Pierce and she taught honors English. We read a lot of really boring books like “The Scarlett Letter” or “Ethan Frome” but she somehow mad read more
Classic Movies in Music Videos: “Llyod, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken” by Camera Obscura
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jul 16, 2011
Here we have another installment of music videos that feature either classic movie stars, movies or reference classic movies. This month’s music video is “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken” by Camera Obscura from their 2006 album “Let’s Get Out of This Country.” The video is of read more
There’s No Business Like Show Business: book review of Betty Hutton’s autobiography
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jul 14, 2011
The zany Betty Hutton we love performing her role as Trudy Kockenlocker in "Miracle of Morgan's Creek" (1944) dragging William Demarest. Bob Hope called her a “Vitamin pill with legs.” Betty Hutton was one of the top stars at Paramount studios from the 1940s until the ear read more
Hollywood’s King and Queen: The Oliviers
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jul 10, 2011
Through the years, several acting couples have been dubbed “Hollywood Royalty”: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner. But none of these couples come close to the class and sophistication of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. T read more
Hooray for the red, white and blue
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jul 4, 2011
I’ve always been under the firm belief that World War II era America is one of the most patriotic times this country has ever had. Women saved cooking grease, nylon hose and tubes of toothpaste to donate for war materials. Film stars enlisted and performed for the soldiers. Female actresses read more
Edith Fellows: Tossing pennies from heaven
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jul 2, 2011
Another star faded on Sunday, June 26. Child star Edith Fellows died at the age of 88. Her name may not as familiar as child stars like Freddie Bartholomew or Virginia Weidler, Fellows was still popular with audience, but usually was type cast as a brat. She played a spoiled little pill in “ read more
Classic Actress Beauty Tip #14: Clear Katharine Hepburn complexion
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jul 1, 2011
This is the fourteenth installment of our monthly classic actress beauty tips that I have read about and tested. Recently, Glamour magazine listed several classic actress beauty secrets. One that peaked my interest was how Katharine Hepburn had such clear skin. It’s no secret that I am not th read more
The story of Tommy Kirk
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jun 27, 2011
Tommy Kirk in "Old Yeller" You may have seen him turning into a sheepdog on “The Shaggy Dog,” tragically killing his dog in “Old Yellar” or as the know-it-all brother in “Swiss Family Robinson.” Life for fresh faced, slightly goofy Tommy Kirk seemed sun read more
Yankee Doodle dressed in drag
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jun 26, 2011
When you think of transgender individuals what comes to mind? Cher’s daughter, Chasity, becoming Chaz? The teased wigs and lots of eye make-up of Rupal’s contestants on the VH1 show “Rupaul’s Drag Race”? Robin Williams in “Mrs. Doubtfire”? What about a female impersonator in a 1919 silent read more
Turn down your bass
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by Jnpickens on Jun 22, 2011
Are you ever riding in the car and the song you are listening to makes your bass embarrassingly loud? That’s happened to me on several occasions lately. No I wasn’t listening to Lil’ Wayne or Lady Gaga’s latest single. I was listening to classic movie soundtracks and my read more