DENZEL WASHINGTON (1954 – ) [On working with young female co-stars]: ‘That ain’t fair, really. Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and […]
GOLDIE HAWN (1945 – ) Born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Fans might think that Academy-Award winning actress Goldie Hawn’s apparently rapid rise to fame was the result of a combination of blind luck and her newly discovered bubbling personality when she landed a role […]
THE LITTLE COLONEL (1935) This was the first of four films in which African-American dancer Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson partnered the child superstar Shirley Temple in dance routines on the big screen; the other three being The Littlest Rebel (1935), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), and Just Around the Corner […]
JACK WESTON (1924-96) Weston hailed from Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a shoe repairman. He stayed with the Cleveland Playhouse, where he joined their children’s theatre, until he was drafted into the United States Army at the age of nineteen in August 1943. He served in Italy for two […]
LAUREN BACALL (1924-2014) [Commenting on Broadway columnist Walter Winchell]: ‘Winchell was a good newspaperman but a vain man, convinced he could change the course of world events – slightly deluded, but never mind. He also fancied himself a ladies’ man.’ ‘I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I […]
A League of Their Own (1992) is a most entertaining film that tells us a little about the wartime decision to introduce women’s baseball to the American public at a time when most of the nation’s male players were in the services or overseas, or both. The idea originated, […]
QUIZ # 3 Q1 IN WHICH 1952 MARTIN & LEWIS COMEDY DID THE UNKNOWN JAMES DEAN APPEAR IN A SCENE? Q2 IN WHICH 1990 ROMANTIC COMEDY WOULD YOU FIND CHARACTERS NAMED VIVIAN WARD, STUCKEY & KIT DE LUCA? Q3 WHO DIRECTED VERTIGO […]
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (2020) Tom Hayden & his activist wife Jane Fonda This dramatization examines the real life […]
JACK WEBB (1920-82) Californian Jack Webb starred in one of the earliest monster hit TV shows – Dragnet – from 1951-59, and then from 1967-70 in a second series of the same name. He played Sgt. Joe Friday. In fact, it was Jack’s friendship with an LAPD police consultant that […]
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