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 —…
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‘Vertigo’ Remade, Andie MacDowell on Aging, James Hong Tugs Out the Tears & More
March 27, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Me, when I heard this news. (GIF via GIPHY) VARIETY: Paramount is considering remaking Vertigo (1958), the Hitchcock classic that is widely considered one of the best films ever made. The horrifying idea is that it would star Robert Downey Jr. from a script by…
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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…
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Topol, Famed for His Performances as Tevye, Dies @ 87
March 9, 2023 Chaim Topol, known as Topol professionally, died March 9, 2023, in Tel Aviv. He was 87. Fiddler's father (GIF via GIPHY) Last year, the entertainer's family announced he was in the final stages of Alzheimer's disease, requesting privacy from fans. Topol was born September 9, 1935, in what is now Israel. He…
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Ed Fury, Sword-and-Sandal Adonis, Dies @ 94
March 6, 2023 Better off Ed (Image by Bob Mizer/AMG) Ed Fury, a physique-model legend and legit movie star in the '60s, died at 94 on February 24, 2023. The sad news of Fury's passing was confirmed by his wife to various friends, who broke the news on social media. https://www.tiktok.com/@boyculturedotcom/video/7207517022647881002?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7200813291274503722 Born Rupert Edmund Holovchik…
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Angela Bassett’s Not Bitter About Oscar Loss, Yoko Ono Retires to the Country & More
March 3, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Will she get an Oscar for her work in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? (Image via video still) EW.COM: Angela Bassett, 64, is up for an Oscar this year, but she's not bitter about losing for What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). KENNETH IN…
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Ricou Browning, ‘Gill-Man’ in ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon,’ Dies @ 93
February 28, 2023 Ricou Browning, the stunt man who donned the iconic fright-wetsuit as the Gill-man in the iconic horror movie Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), has died. One of the men behind one of Hollywood's most infamous monsters (Image via Universal) He was 93. Browning died less than two weeks after his February…
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Walter Mirisch, Oldest-Surviving Oscar Winner, Past Academy President, Dies @ 101
February 25, 2023 Mirisch became a beloved and outspoken authority on the art and business of film. (Image via video still) Walter Mirisch, who was the only person ever to win the Irving G. Thalberg Award, an Oscar for Best Picture and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award — and who had been the oldest-surviving Oscar…
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Shelley Duvall on Her Return to Acting, Neo-Nazis vs. ‘Parade’ & More
February 22, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: I have faith her new movie won't be what used to be called "hagploitation." Everything she does has instant depth. (Image via video still) PEOPLE: Shelley Duvall, 73, has had a tough go of it, but lately, she's rebounding. In a new Q&A, she posits…
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Barbara Bosson, of ‘Hill Street Blues’ & ‘The Last Starfighter,’ Dies @ 83
February 20, 2023 Sad to report Barbara Bosson, who was the achingly vulnerable divorcée Fay Furillo on Hill Street Blues, died Saturday, February 18, 2023, in L.A. in her sleep. Bosson as Fay (Image via NBC) Born November 1, 1939, in Pennsylvania, she lived in Florida before moving to NYC to pursue acting. She was…
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