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The Rat Pack
I cannot expect the truth about the Rat Pack and JFK to ever become known. There are lots of first hand accounts that detail Peter Lawford’s involvement with JFK in doing cocaine and all sorts of women. The truth is far more horrific than the dalliances with 14-year old sex slaves in Florida who I met years later when she was a dedicated lesbian.Read more…The Beginnings of Moviemaking in the United States
The Great Train Robbery was a film made in 1903 and was the first American film that had a story to tell its audience. It was made by Edwin S. Porter and it lasted for eight minutes.Read more…Movies - The Shadow
The "Butcher of Lhasa" is also known as Yinko, played by Alec Baldwin, is a ruthless opium drug dealer who made a practice of taking other's opium fields and killing anyone who crosses his path. One night, Yinko is kidnapped from his estate and taken to a Chinese temple. Once there, he meets a priest who know Yinko's true name, Lamont Crankston.Read more…The Stars of Silent Pictures
Ever since the beginning of the cinema, the public was always particularly interested in the leading actors and actresses of these movies. They were called "stars". They had such a public appeal that the success of a certain movie would depend largely on the popularity of the cast.Read more…The Introduction of Sound in Motion Pictures
In the mid-1920s, the film industry had met its new rival: the radio. Because of it, a lot of people stopped going to the movies and the movie industry was threatened. Amazingly however, scientists in the United States and abroad had simultaneously discovered a way to add sound to silent pictures.Read more…Celebrity Autographs
Celebrity autographs can be great investments, if you know how to buy them. Here are some pointers.Spotting fake autographs.Read more…Celebrity Homestyles: Pamela Anderson
Where would this stunning actress live besides the beach Mecca of North America? No where but Malibu, California. Home to Pamela and her two sons is a bungalow with a comfortable sense of today's zip with yesterdays qualities.Read more…Why Acting Class is Crucial in Your Development as an Actor!
“Do I really need to go to acting class; my friends think I’m a natural performer? Isn’t acting all about knowing lines anyway?”If only acting where all about knowing lines.Read more…Memoirs Of A Geisha (DVD) Review
Nominated for six Academy Awards, and winner of three, Memoirs Of A Geisha holds its own as one of the best films of 2005. Veteran Hollywood screenwriter Robin Swicord does a superb job of adapting Arthur Golden’s bestselling novel to the big screen. This film has all the elements of a classic drama – jealousy, politics, intrigue, forbidden love, and an abundance of internal and external conflicts of varying types.Read more…At the Peak of Disaster Films: a Review of "Dante's Peak"
"Dante's Peak" does for disaster movie fans what a hot fudge sundae does for a chocolate addict. It satisfies you immensely and then makes you want to come back for more. This afternoon, while sitting at home looking at all the housework that needs to be done, I decided to watch "Dante's Peak" for probably the twelfth or thirteen time since it first hit the big screen.Read more…Movie Review - The Squid and the Whale (2005)
I've been a Jeff Daniels fan for a long time.This is yet another great Jeff Daniels movie based on a very strong script by Noah Baumbach who also directed this family drama. Bernie Berkman (Daniels) is an English professor married to another writer Joan (delivered with great texture by Laura Linney).Read more…Secret #3 For Your Acting Audition Success
It’s time to nail that acting audition!Boy can it be scary in that audition room.Well let me tell you there is hope and it’s not about relying on luck, or a miracle but on something that is within YOU.Read more…Secret #4 For Your Acting Audition Success
There are two important characteristics you have to have as a GREAT actor.1) An OPEN MIND2) The ability to LISTENI cant tell you how important it is for an actor to be able to let go of any decisions they have made prior to walking into their acting audition.So often we the actor make choices that we believe suit the story only to have the casting agent or director offer an alternative way.Read more…Top Tips For the Successful Actor and Actress
For the Actor and Actress who have a burning desire to become successful:Is there any easy way to break in to show biz?Yes, if Goldie Hawn is your mum or Michael Douglas is your dad.Seriously though for us actor and actress folk we have to find a way to work our way in.Read more…Storm Stories is Making the Weather Channel Very Popular
When we study brand name loyalty we often think of products and services however, we should also look at mass media such as the Fox television network or The Weather Channel. The weather channel has done something very intelligence during Hurricane Season they call themselves the Hurricane Authority and they really are the hurricane authority to considering that they were the number one watched media during Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Wilma.The Weather Channel has also done something very unique, as they have introduced a new series that is play each night called; Storm Stories.Read more…Where Can I Download Movies? Here Are A Few Tips
When you ask the question, "where can I download movies?" you need to weigh up three things: what is the customer service like, how easy is the site to use, and how big and varied is their selection. The competitive nature of movie download sites is such that it can be very confusing for the beginner.Read more…Movie Review - The Philadelphia Story (1940)
A romantic comedy classic directed by George Cukor and adapted to the screen by Donald Ogden Stewart from Philip Barry's Broadway hit play.Although Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart share top billing with Katherine Hepburn, this is clearly Hepburn's movie. The story revolves around her profound transformation from an “ice queen” to a warm human being who discovers what true love is -- which proves to be her ultimate salvation.Read more…Movie Review - Indiscreet (1958)
A romantic comedy that takes place (like a few other Cary Grant pictures) in the world of British upper class, among well-bred and prosperous ladies and gentlemen whose chief anxiety is a good life lived alone, with no one worthy to share. That's when we forget that we are removed from this distant “parallel universe” by a class differential of galactic proportions and comfortably internalize the human drama at the core of the story regardless of our own socioeconomic background.(Note: if you'd like to watch Cary Grant in his most aristocratic role ever, see GRASS IS GREENER (1960).Read more…Movie Review - The Grass Is Greener (1960)
As aristocratic a romantic comedy as it gets in which Cary Grant, raised dirt poor as “Archie Leach” in Bristol, England, plays Earl Victor Rhyall, a British nobleman living in a salmon pink castle with his wife Lady Hilary Rhyall (played by Deborah Kerr). The palpable Grant-Kerr chemistry that made AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957) such a success is here at play too and probably the chief factor that somewhat salvages this otherwise forgettable flick.The Rhyalls are a part of the British nobility but their finances could be better.Read more…Films - Cleopatra -1934
48 B.C. Julius Caesar conquers half the world and now sets his attention to Egypt, where Cleopatra, played by Claudette Colbert and her brother Ptolemy struggled for sole possession of the throne.Read more…
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