If you're old enough to know who Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) was, her name probably conjures a handful of things: Great beauty, skinny-dipping, many husbands, Harvey Korman's Hedley Lamarr character in Blazing Saddles (1974), a shoplifting scandal. (more…)
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5 Actors You Never Knew Were … or Are … LGBT
For your OMGing pleasure, a roundup of actors you might not realize were gay. They may not have been out publicly due to the times in which they lives and the restrictions that guided their ability to have careers, but ever since reading The Gay Book of Days as a teen, I've always found it…
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Pop Quiz: 50 ’80s Videos That Killed
For fun — and without checking the comments first — see how many of these (IMHO) striking images from '70s and '80s music videos you can ID. (more…)
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Madonna: Polaroid Heaven
Madonna's onetime costumer designer and stylist Marlene Stewart created looks for the videos “Material Girl,” “Papa Don't Preach,” “Like a Prayer,” “Express Yourself,” “Vogue” and for the Queen of Pop's early tours. (more…)
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Tobe Hooper, ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Director, Dies @ 74
Another major horror director has died — Tobe Hooper, forever identified with his breakthrough (perhaps cutting-edge would be putting too fine a point on it?) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, passed away Saturday. He was 74. (more…)
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Noir Paintings: Stick ’em Up … on Your Wall
If you're a fan of '40s and '50s noir movies and their femmes fatales, check out the paintings of Jane Ianniello, whose NoirscapesArt is represented by a store on Etsy. (more…)
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The Birds: Hitchcock’s Living Leading Ladies
When Joan Fontaine died at the ripe old age of 96, I was thinking she must surely have been the earliest of Alfred Hitchcock's leading ladies still living. Nope! She had been the oldest, but there was — at the time — one leading lady working with Hitchcock a decade before Joan, and she was…
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Jay Thomas of ‘Mork & Mindy,’ ‘Cheers,’ ‘Murphy Brown’ Dies @ 69
Sad to read that comic actor Jay Thomas has died. He was 69. (more…)
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Jerry Lewis, King of Comedy, Dies @ 91
Hey, l-a-a-a-a-dy! Jerry Lewis, who rose to fame as part of the comedy team Martin & Lewis in the '50s, became a slapstick solo star in the '60s and went on to become a film auteur, has died at 91. (more…)
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Short Subject: Billy Barty as Liberace
On January 30, 1954, Old Hollywood's most famous little person, Billy Barty (1924-2000), appeared on The Spike Jones Show, impersonating Liberace (1919-1987).
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