You’ll often find me railing against the Hollywood machine in these pages - the lifeless and cynical, the focus-grouped and beta-tested, the bandwagon jumping and the shark jumping - so…
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I remember quite a few years back, when 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment was putting a bunch of its Todd-AO shot musical on laser disc. One of the first ones…
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Last night, I had a dream that involved, among other things, Richard Brody (whom I've never met, but have exchanged cordial e-mails and comments with) hosting an episode of "Saturday Night…
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In the continuing soap opera Hurricane Billy Howls Again, a new development. Despite William Friedkin's insistence that, as was the case with his controversial Blu-ray re-imagining of The French Connection,…
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The punch line to one of the worst punning jokes in the history of Western Civ frequently comes to mind when I'm compelled to contemplate the work of former gamine…
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Antonia Ellis (later to play Alma Mahler Cosima Wagner—really!) is a stripper and a health-care professional, or something, in Percy, a rather misbegotten 1971 British sex farce which is, for reasons…
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