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Answer To Movie Trivia Question
May 1 2008 Yesterday, I posted this question for film buffs and I did warn that it was tricky: What fictional female has been played by males in several movies and in a television series? Answer: The fictional female was the dog Lassie. In the original children's......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-01 12:52:28 | Rating:

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Two Hollywood Stories
May 3 2008 For today, I thought I would just pass along two stories from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Both are supposed to be true. ***** One night, during the 1960s, film star Tony Curtis was leaving a New York night club with a male friend when a woman walked past them. ......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-03 15:36:19 | Rating:

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More Movie Stories
May 6 2008 Here are two more stories about the movies that I'm told are true. **** During the 1980s, actor/writer Peter Ustinov was narrating a documentary about the Vatican in Rome. Accompanied by a camera man, Ustinov walked through the buildings and courtyards while he......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-06 14:10:53 | Rating:

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Movie Violence
May 8 2008 As far back as the 1903 movie The Great Train Robbery (with its climactic shootout between the outlaws and the posse), there has been controversy about film violence and its effects on society. Violence in drama isn't new. Oedipis Rex by Sophocles is one of the oldest......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-08 14:40:55 | Rating:

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Monsters With Soul
May 10 2008 Even though they were shot in monochrome black and white and had primitive special effects, the early monster movies, such as Frankenstein , Dracula and The Wolf Man , had something that modern horror flicks lack. That something was a sense of pathos. Audiences in those days......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-10 15:52:45 | Rating:

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Hillary Huckabee
May 14 2008 Despite her recent win in West Virginia, Hillary Clinton has morphed into the Mike Huckabee of the Democratic Party. Like the Republican senator from Hope, Arkansas, Clinton has showed grit and determination while fighting a losing battle for her party's nomination. Like......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-14 17:35:05 | Rating:

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Attack Ads
May 18 2008 The Republican Party seems to assume that Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate in the 2008 American Presidential Race. They are no longer spending money on advertisements against Hillary Clinton, instead stepping up their attacks on Obama. They're even going after his......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-18 13:12:32 | Rating:

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Strange Old Movies
May 20 2008 When I watch really old movies, I'm often startled by how much social attitudes and popular culture have changed during the past fifty or sixty years. In these old flicks, the cool characters seem to light new cigarettes every ten seconds and they drink booze like tap water......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-20 15:50:16 | Rating:

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Failed Classics
May 23 2008 It's an interesting fact that many movies that are very popular immediately after their release fade into obscurity while other films that are not appreciated in their time become regarded as classics by later generations. For example, Citizen Kane is now considered to be......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-23 10:25:50 | Rating:

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Is It The Man Or The Times?
May 27 2008 A few days ago, Hillary Clinton set off a commotion when she mentioned that Bobby Kennedy had been assassinated at the Democratic Convention, during June of 1968. Let's give Clinton the benefit of the doubt and assume she wasn't signaling that someone should do her a solid......Read More