It's a loss to classic movie lovers but she lived a happy, incredibly full life so it's nothing to be sad about. She was amazingly talented for such a young child and some of her adult films hold up, Since You Went Away and especially The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer, but as she grew up that special magic lessened.

Agreed that Holiday, Notorious, Bringing Up Baby and North by Northwest are good places to start but I've always had a soft spot for In Name Only. Cary and Carole Lombard make a great team and Kay Francis is such a fantastic silky villainess but you have to have a taste for melodrama. He's also a lot of fun in Topper,…

This has all been written about extensively so all the "intuitive" had to do was go to the library. It's pretty clear Bern's mentally ill common law wife, the former paramour as referred to here, killed him in a rage and MGM covered it up by making look like a suicide because Jean was so valuable at the box office.…

They may be be seen as rudimentary now but not being an animation buff in the least that never bothered me. What I enjoyed about them and still do is the wildly entertaining voice work of Geraldine Page and to a lesser extent George C. Scott. Then there's the pairing of Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor which wouldn't seem…

They may be be seen as rudimentary now but not being an animation buff in the least that never bothered me. What I enjoyed about them and still do is the wildly entertaining voice work of Geraldine Page and to a lesser extent George C. Scott. Then there's the pairing of Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor which wouldn't seem…

The show was all over the place but most pilots even for the best shows are diffuse because of the establishment of the premise so I'll stick with it for at least a few more episodes since I really like Greg Kinnear.

I tuned in this season because of all the great actresses and whenever Jessica, Kathy, Angela, Frances Conroy or Lily Rabe are front and center I can put up with the messiness of the show and be glad they are getting the exposure they deserve. But the show is all over the place and has slid further into a morass each…

I've enjoyed Will Smith in several films but he's no actor, he's a personality who makes films. Of course all big stars are or they'd be interchangeable with everyone else but the ones who are committed to their craft are willing to take risks and small parts that might challenge them. Brad Pitt does among others and…

Agreed that it was a choice bit of the show. Mrs. Hughes chewed her up one side and down the other. Glad of it too, I couldn't stand Edna. Tom can be somewhat thick at times but he does silent anguish well and is one of my favorite characters. Mrs. Hughes of course is always great.

Nolan and Aiden's breezy odd couple exchange was a real highlight of the show, they make a great team.

I found Jacqueline Bisset's speech charming. She was surprised to win after all these years and so unprepared which made her comments off the cuff and real. A refreshing change from thanks to "my team" and other vapid crap that the unsurprised winners spew with regularity. She may have been a bit tipsy but that…

Barbara Stanwyck was someone who could move effortlessly from drama to comedy, she did Double Indemnity and Christmas in Connecticut back to back and those two films or characters could not be more dissimilar.

I know he was Scorsese's muse at the time but De Niro was the wrong actor for this film. It's is a blatant roman a clef of Doris Day's first marriage to that psychotic musician who ultimately blew his brains out in his car at a stop light years after their marriage. De Niro's angry charm-free reading of the part makes…

Gone With The Wind, Adventures of Robin Hood, The Heiress, Dodge City and To Each His Own are great places to start to become familiar with Olivia's work. For Joan, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Rebecca are her best

Good God! It's like the domino effect!! Where will it end?

What an awful week, first the great Eleanor Parker, yesterday noir goddess Audrey Totter and now Peter O'Toole! All lived good long lives but still sad to see them go. There's certainly no one like them among the current crop of stars. Probably at his greatest in Lion in Winter I always had a soft spot for My Favorite…