Category Archives: ’30s

Roxette Memoir, Treat Williams Driver Charged, What Happens When Collectors Die & More

August 1, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today! The limited collector's edition is loaded with added value. (Image via 1984) 1984: Just this past week, 1984 Publishing launched the final memoir from the late Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson, Listen to My Heart: Life, Love & Roxette, written with Helena von Zweigbergk. As you…

Cary Grant’s Daughter Denies He Was Gay (Again), WHAM! Doc on Netflix & More

July 5, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Daddy figure (Image via vintage still) PEOPLE: Jennifer Grant, Cary Grant's daughter with Dyan Cannon, is still just NOT facing reality — she allows that her dad may have had one affair (LOL) with a man in his youth, but swore he was never flirtatious…

Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers Case Cracked? & More!

May 17, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: The theft was quite a feet! (Image via MGM) THE GUARDIAN: The dancing-a-jig is up for a septuagenarian alleged to have stolen a pair of ruby slippers from 1939's The Wizard of Oz in 2005. A grand jury has indicted Terry Martin on charges related…

Paul Robeson Mural in D.C. Destroyed 1 Week After His Birthday

April 17, 2023 Paul Robeson is an undisputed American icon, and in particular an African-American icon. He was one of the first — if not the first — Black men to cross over as a major star with name recognition among white audiences, and his work in the theater, in films and as an activist…

Brooke Shields Unveils Her ‘Pretty Baby,’ Warner Bros. at 100, RIP Seymour Stein & More

April 3, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Shields seems more resentful of the media than of the filmmakers. (Image via video still) GMA: Brooke Shields, 57, is promoting her documentary Pretty Baby, talking about how the film lays out her life and career, which was uniquely affected by her perceived beauty —…

Robert Blake, ‘Baretta’ & ‘Our Gang’ Star Acquitted of Murder, Dies @ 89

March 9, 2023 Via ExtraTV: Robert Blake, whose nearly 60-year career was overshadowed by a seamy murder trial — and acquittal — died Thursday, March 9, 2023, at his L.A. home of heart disease. He was 89. Fred on top (Image via TV Guide) Blake was born Michael James Gubitosi in Nutley, New Jersey, on…

Rick Astley on Giving Up, Oral History of Hollywood, RIP Tom Verlaine & More

January 29, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today ... There's more to Rick than Rick-rolling. (GIF via GIPHY) RETROPOP: Rick Astley was a pop "It" boy from 1987-1993. Now 56, he's opening up about why he stepped away from recording. I'm more than ready for this! (Image via Harper) AMAZON: An 800-page book…

Dolly Parton Salutes Leslie Jordan, Ex-Child Stars Remember Adam Rich & More

January 8, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Dolly sang a bit of a song she recorded with Leslie. (Image via video still) EW.COM: Dolly Parton joined Call Me Kat to pay homage to the late, great Leslie Jordan. NYT: So long to veteran newsman Bernard Kalb, who has signed off at the…

‘Babylon’s’ 1920s Hollywood Flashback, 100-Year-Old WWII Photographer on War, Bob Saget’s Widow Remembers & More

December 26, 2022 Links to the past, with relevance today: "It" girls Clara Bow & Margot Robbie (Images via vintage still & Paramount) VARIETY: Was '20s Hollywood really as debauched as it is portrayed in Babylon? (YUP.) THR: Oh, man, remember Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977)?! DO YOU REMEMBER?: Demi Moore is about to be…

‘Variety’ Picks Top 100 Films Ever — Headed Up by ‘Psycho’

The truth hurts. (GIF via GIPHY) Variety, a publication that brags it is as old as the movies, has cooked up a list of the Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time. They report, "[I]n making this list, we wanted to reflect the beautiful, head-spinning variety of the moviegoing experience. We don’t just mean different…

Category Archives: ’30s

Roxette Memoir, Treat Williams Driver Charged, What Happens When Collectors Die & More

Cary Grant’s Daughter Denies He Was Gay (Again), WHAM! Doc on Netflix & More

Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers Case Cracked? & More!

Paul Robeson Mural in D.C. Destroyed 1 Week After His Birthday

Brooke Shields Unveils Her ‘Pretty Baby,’ Warner Bros. at 100, RIP Seymour Stein & More

Robert Blake, ‘Baretta’ & ‘Our Gang’ Star Acquitted of Murder, Dies @ 89

Rick Astley on Giving Up, Oral History of Hollywood, RIP Tom Verlaine & More

Dolly Parton Salutes Leslie Jordan, Ex-Child Stars Remember Adam Rich & More

‘Babylon’s’ 1920s Hollywood Flashback, 100-Year-Old WWII Photographer on War, Bob Saget’s Widow Remembers & More

‘Variety’ Picks Top 100 Films Ever — Headed Up by ‘Psycho’

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