BLAME IT ON RIO (1984)                            For those unfamiliar with this movie’s premise – Michael Caine and Joseph Bologna take their teenage daughters, Michelle Johnson and Demi Moore to Rio de Janeiro for a vacation. Caine’s marriage is […]

  LISA KUDROW (1963 – )                             [Speaking of her Friends co-star, the late Matthew Perry]: Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached and tears poured down my face […]

  Eric Idle In 1963, as a collegiate, Eric Idle was admitted into the Cambridge Footlights comedy club. He became president of the club the following year, and one of his first acts was to open the membership to include women. Feminist/writer Germaine Greer was one of the first women […]

  ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)                              Hugh Marlowe in All about Eve One of Bette Davis’s former directors, Edmund Goulding, phoned Joseph L. Mankiewicz on learning of the casting of Bette Davis in the lead for this picture, […]

    JULIA ROBERTS (1967 – )  [About President George W. Bush’s daughters being caught with alcohol as minors] ‘We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I’d go out and have a couple of drinks, too. […]

  Julie Andrews In 1969, MGM cancelled their proposed Irving Berlin musical biography that was to be titled Say it With Music and set to star Julie Andrews. She successfully sued the studio and collected a whopping (for 1969) $1,250,000, which was her promised salary for the picture. Julie met […]

    … AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (1979)                                   Al Pacino was forced to choose between making this picture and making Kramer vs Kramer. He opted for …And Justice for all. Dustin Hoffman grabbed the other film and won an Academy Award for his performance in it. For what it is […]

  JAMES GARNER (1928 – 2014)                 [The star who memorably portrayed Bret Maverick in the ‘Maverick’ series for Warner Bros in the sixties spoke about smoking marijuana for most of his adult life]: ‘I started smoking it in my late teens. I drank […]

  Robert Shaw in From Russia With Love Robert Shaw was a good four inches shorter than Sean Connery, so it was decided to have him employ lifts to bolster the impression that, as Red Grant in From Russia with Love (1963), he would appear to be a match for 007 […]