April 16, 2024 Links to the past, with relevance today: I'm hoping there will be a sale at Penney's! (Image via Rusted Wave) RUSTED WAVE: The full Airplane! The Soundtrack! will be available for the first time ever Saturday, April 20, for Record Store Day. The Elmer Bernstein score will be on red vinyl. PEOPLE:…
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Eastwood’s New Flick at 91, Sally Struthers on ‘All in the Family’s’ Legacy & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: The whales of July (Image via Warner Bros.) EW: Pretty incredible that at 91, Clint Eastwood is still directing and starring in movies, including his newest — Cry Macho, a road-trip western set in the '70s. He is in spitting distance of the age (93) at which Lillian…
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Movie & TV Muscleman William Smith Dies @ 88
William Smith had a longer career in movies than George Burns or Olivia de Havilland, but while he was never a household name like they were, he was certainly a household face — and figure. Mr. Smith as he appeared in 2011 (Image by Matthew Rettenmund) Bill in his beefcake days, around 1961 On Kolchak:…
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Bubbly Comic Actress Arlene Golonka Dies @ 85
According to close friends, longtime stage, film, and TV actress Arlene Golonka, best remembered for her time on two series set in the idyllic, fictional town of Mayberry, died Monday. She was 85. With Clint Eastwood on the Hang 'em High set (Image via UA) Born January 23, 1936, in Chicago, the bubbly blonde with impeccable…
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Jessica Walter, ‘Play Misty for Me,’ ‘Arrested Development’ Star, Dies @ 80
Such a sad and unexpected death — Jessica Walter, the comic and dramatic actress whose career stretched back to Broadway in the early '60s and was capped off by an iconic portrayal on TV's Arrested Development, died March 24 in her Manhattan home. You picked a fine time to leave us, Lucille! (Image via FOX)…
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Past & Curious: Seeing Stars, Branding ‘Seinfeld’ as Inappropriate & More!
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Oscar Nominee Sondra Locke Dies @ 74
Sondra Locke, the blonde actress who was romantically involved with Clint Eastwood, 88, for more than a dozen years in the '70s and '80s, and who was an Oscar nominee for her film debut The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), died November 3, RadarOnline.com reports. (more…)
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New Year, Old Movies: 5 Concoctions to Warm Your Cockles
Courtesy of Rick's Real/Reel Life, 5 old movies to help you ring in the new year with a smile on your face: (more…)
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