Of the concept of God: “I don’t seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That’s why I never talk about it. I think it’s all here — in…
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1927 Paramount Studios Map of Shooting Locations in Southern California
If you think using Vancouver to double for New York is a newish phenomena, take a look at this amazing map I found online which outlines Paramount Pictures’ recommendations for shooting locally with international…
Movie Quote of the Day: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By the time I realized I needed to see The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I was knee deep in late-year Oscar films and it just got pushed down in my queue. Flash forward…
Nancy Balbirer on Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
I finally had a chance to catch up with Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, a documentary as filled with warmth, humor, and good cheer as its illustrious subject. By some weird cosmic coincidence, I watched it by…
Movie Quote of the Day: Roller Boogie (1979)
Terry Barkley (Linda Blair): Daddy, I need to ask you a favor. Lillian Barkley (Beverly Garland): [coming into the room] Well, as long as it’s not about skating, or disco music. Ritchie bought me an…
Everyone’s a Critic: My Jewish Mother on “Avatar”
“With all that money no one could bother to write a story?? And if she got on the fucking bird one more time I don’t know what I was gonna do!”…
Barbara Stanwyck: The Greatest Actress Who Never Won an Oscar
If you or someone you know is prone to saying they don’t like Hollywood films from the classic period, or that they find film acting of that era mannered and melodramatic, I would answer…
“Next Stop, Greenwich Village” (1976): Movie Quote of the Day
Almost completely shot on location in Greenwich Village, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Paul Mazursky’s autobiographical film is one of the most overlooked American movies of the 1970s. Having arrived in the Village in 1983,…
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught, Part Two: Maple Munk Singing “Meet Me In St. Louis”
I’m happy to report that my niece Maple Munk, just shy of her fifth birthday is, if anything, exceeding my expectations as a budding pop culture aficionado! I’ve written before about what I reason…
Movie Quote of the Day: In a Lonely Place (1950)
“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” In A Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray’s gripping drama, is one of my…
Movie Quote of the Day: Sam Peckinpah on His Film “Straw Dogs”
The original Straw Dogs was released in 1971 and was equally praised and vilified for it’s extremely graphic violence, particularly a long, rape scene in which the victim, actress Susan George, appeared to enjoy (at…
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