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…
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‘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…
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20 Celebrities We Lost in 2022
It's always so hard to narrow this down to just 20 famous faces we will no longer have with us ... which celeb deaths had the greatest impact on you? https://youtu.be/QzsEU7ioITA
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‘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…
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Diane McBain, ‘Batman,’ ‘Claudelle Inglish’ Actress & Elvis Co-Star, Dies @ 81
Diane McBain, a blonde beauty who enjoyed popularity mainly on TV in the '60s, died Wednesday, December 21, at 81. The cause was liver cancer. McBain in Mary, Mary (Image via Warner Bros.) McBain was born May 18, 1941, in Cleveland, Ohio, but her family quickly relocated to Glendale, California, putting her in Hollywood's orbit.…
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Stuart Margolin, Emmy Winner for ‘The Rockford Files’ Dies @ 82
Stuart Margolin, the character actor fondly remembered as slippery Angel on 37 episodes of The Rockford Files, died Monday at 82. There must be an Angel ... (Image via NBC) His death was confirmed by his stepson. Born January 31, 1940, Margolin's career touched on the fields of stage, film and TV after growing up…
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Shelley Duvall Returns to Acting, Carpenters Christmas Glory & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: "You're a fuckin' murderer!" (Image via video still) PEOPLE: Shelley Duvall has returned to acting after 20 years. L.A. TIMES: Sharon Gless, 79, is back on the PR trail for her memoir Apparently There Were Complaints. My 2019 Q&A with Sharon Gless — HERE CLOSER WEEKLY: Tina Turner,…
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Kirstie Alley, Emmy Winner for Cheers, Dies @ 71
A short, private battle with cancer has ended the life of TV and movie star Kirstie Alley at 71. The Rebecca days (Image via NBC) Her family announced her death on her official social media accounts: (Image via Twitter) Alley was born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas, but relocated to Los Angeles in…
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Nancy Olson’s Ready for Her Close-Up, Kennedy Center Honorees, Remembering Leslie Jordan & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Between now and July, Nancy will become twice the age Gloria Swanson was when she shot Sunset Boulevard! (Image via Dr. Ward Bond) YOUTUBE: Fabulous, hour-long chat with Nancy Olson Livingston, Oscar nominee for Sunset Boulevard (1950) whose new memoir is being published at the age of 94.…
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Mylène Demongeot, French Movie Legend, Dies @ 87
The very year she appeared in one of the most successful films of her career — Retirement Home — French movie star Mylène Demongeot has died at 87. As Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers (Image via Pathé) Demongeot died of primary peritoneal cancer on Thursday, December 1, in a Paris hospital. Born September…
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