With the passing of Jerry Stiller at 92, we've lost a true comedy great. That's putting it mildly! (GIF via GIPHY) Check out this list of 10 times Stiller was utterly hilarious! (10) The New York Friars Club Roast of Jerry Stiller (1999) The stand-out moment has to be Jason Alexander's non-blue song intro: https://youtu.be/DkgnboddC5s…
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Bad Goods, Dench Does ‘Vogue,’ Leif-time Ban: Past & Curious
Links to the past, with relevance today: Born to be sold ... by Faye Dunaway. (Image via video still) HUFF POST: Terrible movies from the past you can see for free on YouTube — and baby, the price is right! NYT: Couple married 71 years die days apart, he of COVID-19, she more likely of…
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Beware ‘Trumpergeist’: This White House Ain’t Clean!
This parody of Poltergeist (1982), in which Zelda Rubinstein (1933-2010) reads the family the riot act on the dangers of Trump is spooky-good: https://vimeo.com/410026286
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Ultimate ‘Goonies’ Reunion on Zoom!
Josh Gad is launching what we can only hope will be a series with many more episodes to fill up all of our quarantine down time: Reunited Apart! "Hey, you guys! (Image via Reunited Apart) The first installment is going to be incredibly hard to top: Everyone associated with the 1985 classic The Goonies showed…
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Even More ABOUT EVE, Kirk’s Widow Is 101, Sondheim’s Secret Ending and More — Past & Curious
Links to the past, with relevance today: Here's to up yours! (GIF via GIPHY) NYT: Why you, too, should fall in love again with All About Eve (1950). https://www.instagram.com/p/B_c2ewZA2mK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link INSTAGRAM: Incredible that Kirk Douglas — who died at 103 — has a surviving widow who just celebrated her 101st. NYT: Steve Dalkowski, who was used…
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HBD Barbra, RIP Campbellocking Creator, Plus: Silents, Cher & ‘Valley Girl’
Links to the past, with relevance today: Lawng nails, lawng list! (GIF via GIPHY) GREG IN HOLLYWOOD: Barbra Streisand is 78 today! Here are 78 things Greg loves, admires and appreciates about the living legend. "When you don't know how to dance, no matter what somebody show you, it ain't gonna come out right!" (Image…
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‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ Actress Shirley Knight Dies @ 83
Shirley Knight, nominated for the Oscar twice in the '60s and a familiar face ever since on TV, in movies, and, in smaller doses, on the stage, died Wednesday in San Marcos, Texas, her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins reported on Facebook. She was 83. Part of a tableau in 1968's Petulia (Image via Warner Bros.) In…
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Studio One, Goldie Hawn, Sheila E. Richard Dawson & More: Past & Curious
Links to the past, with relevance today: Boys, boys, boys! (GIF via GIPHY) KENNETH IN THE (212): New doc about L.A.'s '80s answer to Studio 54, Studio One, focuses both on the club's history and its future — as plans to destroy the building galvanize interviewees' efforts to save the place. I'll have a slice!…
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Tom Lester of ‘Green Acres’ Dies @ 81
Tom Lester, the last surviving regular cast member of the TV classic Green Acres (1965-1971), died April 20 at 81 of Parkinson's disease complications. ExtraTV reports Lester died at home in Nashville, his fiancée (and long-term caregiver) Jackie by his side. Born September 23, 1938, in Laurel, Mississippi, Lester was heading toward a career as…
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I Am in Love With Hart Bochner
Okay, the title of this post is hyperbolic and somewhat misleading, but I've always been a huge fan of the model-turned-actor-turned-director, known for appearing in such films as Breaking Away (1979), Making Mr. Right (1987), Die Hard (1988) and the miniseries War and Remembrance (1988-1989). Tell me I'm wrong. (GIF via GIPHY) I fell for…
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