MOVIE TRIVIA – PT192
Wesley Snipes If you ever wondered why the movie career of Wesley Snipes got derailed, the answer is simple enough. In 2010 he was sentenced to three years in the Federal Correctional Institution McKean for failure […]
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‘Exodus’ (1960) & ‘Major League’ (1989)
EXODUS (1960) When, in 1958, American author Leon Uris published Exodus, his fictional novel about the founding of the state of Israel, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would buy the rights and turn it into a movie. Autocratic taskmaster Otto Preminger was chosen to direct […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT56.
In my movie collection is the 1992 Sean Connery-Lorraine Bracco film Medicine Man, one of those pictures that critics in their unchallenged wisdom chose to lambast from the moment it was released. As director John McTiernan said, ‘If the press hadn’t defined it as an action movie, it probably wouldn’t […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 23.
Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra […]
RANDOM SNAPSHOTS – PT8.
Jennifer Jones (1919 – 2009) On November 9, 1967 the 48 year-old Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones booked into a motel near Malibu Beach, swallowed a large quantity of […]
Tom Sizemore – a great talent wasted.
Tom Sizemore – Saving Private Ryan Tom Sizemore’s drug problem was common knowledge in the movie business when he was given the chance to perform in Saving Private Ryan (1998) by Steven Spielberg. ‘Steven said he was going to give me a second chance, but that he would have […]