Category Archives: ’20s

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…

Pelé & Vivienne Westwood Die, ‘The Wild Party’ Remembered, Jack the Ripper Revealed & More

December 29, 2022 Links to the past, with relevance today ... My King! (Image via video still) RICK'S REAL/REEL LIFE: The story of '70s flick The Wild Party, an ill-fated Raquel Welch-David Dukes-James Coco production that tried to capture the roaring '20s in the same way the current Babylon does. (And the '70s are as…

‘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…

Anna May Wong Gets Her Due, Kevin Spacey Gets Off, Horror TV Celebrated & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: A long time coming (GIF via GIPHY) CNN: Anna May Wong, the silent film star who was the first Asian celebrity in the U.S., will become the first Asian face on American currency. EBAY: The coolest Debbie Harry promotional item of all time. When Debbie and H.R. Giger…

Mildred Kornman aka Ricki VanDusen, ‘Our Gang’ Star, Dies @ 97

According to most sources, as of last week, there were just three human beings alive who appeared in any capacity in a Silent Era silent film — no stars, the last having died in 2020. Kornman (second from L, next to Pete the Pup) (Image via vintage still) On August 19, 2022, the last woman…

‘Titanic’ Memorial Neglected, Butch Patrick Back to ‘Munsters,’ Oscar for Diane Warren & More!

Links to the past, with relevance today: What an invite! (Image via vintage memorabilia) NYT: A memorial to those who died aboard the Titanic sits in disrepair in NYC. Now, some are fighting for it to be restored. The last survivor of the tragedy died in 2009 at age 97 on the 98th anniversary of…

It was not the most controversial thing that happened at the 94th Oscars, but as usual, the In Memoriam segment had its fair share of detractors. Anne Rice was a writer, but some of her works were made into very famous films. (Image via selfie) First, there seems to be a cultural divide over whether…

Cecil B. DeMille’s Female Max, Spielberg vs. Oscars, ‘Andy Warhol Diaries’ Coming & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: Rosson at her desk (Image via Brigham Young University) THE DAILY MIRROR: Remembering Gladys Rosson, who as Cecil B. DeMille's right-hand woman knew more about the great director's personal life and career than any other person alive. Fascinating summary of her mostly forgotten life. WoW: The true story…

‘Kolchak: The Night Stalker’: Its Most Frighteningly Memorable Guest Stars

ITEM: Kolchak: The Night Stalker was one of the strangest series in TV history when it debuted on September 13, 1974, a bizarre hybrid of the supernatural and old-school hard-boiled detective stories — a pure embrace of pulp sensationalism that was equal parts an unnervingly scary monster mash and a gigantic, wet-grinned wink. The story…

Category Archives: ’20s

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

Pelé & Vivienne Westwood Die, ‘The Wild Party’ Remembered, Jack the Ripper Revealed & 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’

Anna May Wong Gets Her Due, Kevin Spacey Gets Off, Horror TV Celebrated & More

Mildred Kornman aka Ricki VanDusen, ‘Our Gang’ Star, Dies @ 97

‘Titanic’ Memorial Neglected, Butch Patrick Back to ‘Munsters,’ Oscar for Diane Warren & More!

Oscars In Memoriam Snubs & Flubs 2022

Cecil B. DeMille’s Female Max, Spielberg vs. Oscars, ‘Andy Warhol Diaries’ Coming & More

‘Kolchak: The Night Stalker’: Its Most Frighteningly Memorable Guest Stars

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