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• 'tis the Season - of Giving...and It's Happening Here!

  

  BOOKS AND DVDS IN YOUR STOCKING THIS YEAR?One of the things I love most about the holidays is giving gifts. This year I happen to have presents for a few classi... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Noir City News

  

  The latest edition of the Film Noir Foundation's Noir City e-magazine is out and, along with major features on Dan Duryea and Peter Lorre, it brings news of Noi... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Film Passion 101: Falling in Love Again

  

  The Gay Divorcee airs tonight on TCM as part of its month-long tribute to Fred AstaireWatching a console TV for long stretches from the living room floor and a... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• History Lessons: Fashion in Film and the Hollywood Costume

  

  Clockwise from top left: Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson and Louise BrooksFashion in FilmFilm and costume design history expert Kimberly Truhler, one o... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Sight & Sound...Classic Cinema with Live Music

  

  Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo at Davies Hall, San Francisco, November 1, 2013A few months ago the San Francisco Symphony announced that it would kick off a... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Remembering JFK

  

  At 43, he was the youngest man to be elected and the only Catholic President of the United States. His youth and religion were issues in 1960 when he won the... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• What a Character: Gladys Cooper

  

  The What a Character! blogathon is in progress now, hosted by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken and Freckled and Paula's Cinema Club. Click here for more informatio... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Three (Mesmerizing) Hitchcock Villains Revisited on Halloween

  

  Today (and today only) our friend Lara of Backlots is hosting a one day Hitchcock Halloween blogathon and for the occasion I'm resurrecting an old favorite... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hitchcock Week...and More...at the San Francisco Symphony

  

  Just over two years ago I attended – and was astounded by - “Casablanca with the San Francisco Symphony” at Davies Hall. Conductor Michael Francis led the... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• TCM Presents Five Tyrone Power Films in Primetime and Late Night

  

  Nightmare Alley to Make Its TCM PremiereNightmare AlleyTyrone Power was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood from the late 1930s through the late 1950s and he... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me): My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather

  

  Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy DavisThe Metzinger Sisters of Silver Scenes are hosting a classic film event,The Great Imaginary Film Blogathon - and this i... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Viktor Und Viktoria's Darling of the Gods

  

  Before The Cafe, Lesser Ury, 1920sGuest blogger Karin (aka/Whistlingypsy) of Distant Voices and Flickering Shadows is a freelance technical writer living in... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Summer Under the Stars: Unfaithfully Rex

  

  When Rex Harrison came to Hollywood in 1945 to make a movie, he was 37 years old, had already been on the stage in England for 22 years and had been making film... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• August 12: A Day - and Night - Under the Stars with Catherine Deneuve

  

  This is my first entry for the 2013 TCM Summer Under the Stars Blogathon now in progress and hosted by Jill Blake of http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/ and... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hitchcock...in 3D!

  

  My introduction to 3D movies finally came this past weekend and I’m sure it surprises no one who knows me that this happened by way of a classic rather than... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• How Sweet It Is: "The Honeymooners" on MeTV

  

  In the final episode of the first season of AMC’s Mad Men, set in 1960, advertising wunderkind Don Draper pitches his creative concept to Kodak for its latest... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• TCM's Friday Night Spotlight in July: Francois Truffaut

  

  Francois TruffautFriday nights in July are going to be hot, and I’m not talking about the weather where I live. Beginning tonight and on the 12th, 19th and 26th... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Of New York History and New Hollywood Horror...

  

  EDWARD CLARK'S "FOLLY" The address, One West 72nd Street, may not register with many who live outside the city of New York, but the name of the building at the... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Happy Birthday, Tyrone Power!

  

  artwork by Rob Kelly99 years ago Tyrone Edmund Power was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. 22 years after that he became a movie star and would remain one for the rest... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Cagney

  

  , color by Claroscureaux"...every time I see him work, looks to me like a bunch of firecrackers going off all at once."Will Rogers During an era when... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES