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...
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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.
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One night, during the 1960s, film star...
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More Movie Stories
May 6 2008
Here are two more stories about the movies that I'm told are true.
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During the 1980s, actor/writer Peter Ustinov was narrating a documentary about the Vatican in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Adventures In The Writing Game
May 28 2008
For almost three years now, I've been trying my hand at fiction writing and I've even sold a few books. Along the way, I've found that many things about being a writer are...
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