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Nicki Gostin

Rosanna Arquette Gets Candid About Hollywood, Aging

HuffingtonPost.com | Nicki Gostin | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Video, Rosanna Arquette the Divide, The Divide, Rosanna Arquette Interview, The Divide Movie, The Divide Trailer, Rosanna Arquette News, Bette Davis, Rosanna Arquette, Celebrities, Entertainment News

Can you have a relationship and a Hollywood career at the same time? That's the question Rosanna Arquette has pondered since Bette Davis sat her do...

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Twilight, and the Return of Women's Blockbuster Films

Govindini Murty | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Titanic, Women's Films, Gone With the Wind, Twilight, Mirror Mirror, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Hunger Games, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, Snow White and the Huntsman, Joan Crawford, Morocco, Mildred Pierce, Marlene Dietrich, Jezebel, Greta Garbo, Queen Christina, Bette Davis, The Thatcher Years, The-Thatcher-Years, Entertainment News
Govindini Murty

Hollywood is finally making an effort to give women and their stories the blockbuster treatment. In doing so, the film industry is hearkening back to what was once a strength of classic Hollywood: the blockbuster women's film.

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DVDs Worth Owning - and Giving - for Christmas

John Farr | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Suspense, Kate Winslet, James Cagney, Academy Awards, Al Pacino, Action Movies, Paul Newman, Best Movies on DVD, George Clooney, Dvds, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, War Movies, John Ford, Cary Grant, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, Brad Pitt, Foreign Films, Meryl Streep, Drama, Christmas, Christmas Gifts, Christmas Shopping, Science Fiction, Comedy, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Robert De Niro, Holidays, Gift-Guides, Entertainment News
John Farr

I just know many of you out there are scrambling to catch up on your holiday gift giving. This article's for you.

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How Love Makes Age Less Scary

Donna Jean Freberg | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Thanksgiving, Bette Davis, Old Age, Loss, Love, Grateful, Moving On, Holidays, Love Post50, Aging Family, Thanksgiving Family, Fifty News
Donna Jean Freberg

Into every life a little rain must fall. Sometimes a torrential downpour, or even a Tsunami perhaps. And we hang on for dear life and find out what we are made of.

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WATCH: Who Is Pedro Almodovar's 'Ideal Of Beauty?'

Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Volver, Video, Penelope Cruz, Almodovar, Katherine Hepburn, Spanish Film, Pedro Almodovar, Broken Embraces, Spanish Director, Lgbt Film, Bette Davis, Arts News

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar has a complex relationship with beauty. For much of his life he's been surrounded in one way or another by beautiful...

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Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of
Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies

Joshua Kors | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: NYC Fringe Festival, Hal Holbrook, Academy Awards, Theater, Bette Davis, Broadway, Fruit by the Foot, The Redheads, Dark Victory, Jessica Sherr, Always Actor, 1940s, Gone With the Wind, New York Fringe Festival, Los Angeles Times, Oscars, Vivien Leigh, NY Theater, NY Around Town, New York News
Joshua Kors

Jessica Sherr has been playing the raven-haired 1940s cinema icon Bette Davis for two years. Sherr sat down with me to discuss how an off-hand comment about her bright green eyes sparked a burgeoning career.

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10 Black & White Movies for People Who Won't Watch Black & White Movies

John Farr | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Fred MacMurray, ?€œthe Best Years of Our Lives?, The Grapes of Wrath, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, All About Eve, Fredric March, The Apartment, Best Movies by Farr, Rod Steiger, Citizen Kane, Walter Huston, Robert Duvall, Pulitzer Prize, Marilyn Monroe, Black and White, Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Lemmon, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, American Film Institute, Humphrey Bogart, John Steinbeck, Movie Recommendations, Orson Welles, Movie Suggestions, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies, Casablanca, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, John Huston, Schindler's List, Shirley MacLaine, Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, William Wyler, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Myrna Loy, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bette Davis, Culture News
John Farr

If I could get all those black and white haters out there to watch just ten titles -- movies that constituted absolutely essential viewing -- which would they be?

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The Greatest Hollywood Director You May Never Have Heard Of

John Farr | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Preston Sturges, Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Mary Astor, Margaret Sullavan, Ralph Richardson, Fredric March, Best Movies on DVD, Olivia De Havilland, Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson, Best Movies by Farr, Herbert Marshall, Eleanor Parker, Montgomery Clift, Walter Huston, John Ford, Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, William Wyler, George Cukor, Charlton Heston, Myrna Loy, Vivien Leigh, Dana Andrews, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Entertainment News
John Farr

Which Hollywood director actually made the most great movies? In the Alsace area of Germany, future director William Wyler was born. Here is a sampling of his best movies covering three full decades.

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PHOTOS: Who Is The Greatest American Film Actress Ever?

Posted 09.03.2011

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Actresses, Greatest Actresses, Rita Hayworth, Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Diane Keaton, Katharine Hepburn, Geena Davis, Bette Davis, Greatest American Actresses, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Like most other fields, professions, hobbies and, well, really, anything else, to truly succeed, on a lasting level, as a woman in show business has r...

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PHOTOS: Haiku Reviews: 'Nuns Behaving Badly', Snow In LA, Agitated Suits | NYC, LA, San Francisco

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Frank, Abstraction Expressionism, Nuns, John Marin, George Heymont, Moma, Los Angeles, Nuns Behaving Badly, Art Exhibitions, New York, Art, Laurence Vittes, West Hollywood, Horacio Cadzco, Ab-Ex, Haiku Reviews, San Francisco, Slidepollajax, Facism, Bette Davis, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditio...

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Gay Icons and American Dreams in New Documentary: Making the Boys

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natalie Wood, Michael Cunninghan, William Friedkin, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, Mart Crowley, Paul Rudnick, Robert Wagner, Stonewall Riots, Judy Garland, Crayton Robey, Dominick Dunne, Peter White, Laurence Luckinbill, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Roddy McDowall, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Marlene Dietrich, Tony Kushner, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Crayton Robey's ambitious new documentary Making the Boys, about The Boys in the Band, chronicles the life, times and resonance of a cultural phenomenon.

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Making Gay History -- Again

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crayton Robey Interview, Twentieth Century-Fox, Mart Crowley Interview, Including Edward Albee, When Ocean Meets Sky, Bette Davis, Darryl F. Zanuck, Fire Island, Robert Wagner, Stonewall, Marshall Fine Interview, Marshall Fine, Natalie Wood, Gay Rights, William Friedkin, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, The Boys in the Band, Paul Rudnick, Larry Kramer, Making the Boys, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Making 'The Boys' blends several storylines, including the history of Mart Crowley's ground-breaking 1969 play The Boys in the Band, and the rise of the gay-rights movement in its wake.

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When the Vows Break: Are Oscar-Winning Actresses Destined for Divorce?

Steve Lake | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cubs, Oscar, Kate Winslet, Divorce, Halle Berry, Curse, Hilary Swank, Joan Crawford, Annette Benning, Sandra Bullock. Nicole Kidman, Bette Davis, Billy Goat Curse, Oscars 2011, Chicago News
Steve Lake

Between 1936 and 2010, Best Actress winners were 63 percent more likely to get divorced than non-winners.

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David O. Russell Battles for The Fighter

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Academy Awards, Jack Kerouac, Micky Ward, Golden Globes, David O. Russell, I Heart Huckabees, Nailed, Mark Wahlberg, Bette Davis, George Clooney, Flirting With Disaster, Oscar, Movies, Marshall Fine Interview, Marshall Fine, Anchorman, Christian Bale, Ed McMahon, Spanking the Monkey, The Fighter, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Lily Tomlin, David O. Russell Interview, Three Kings, Dicky Eklund, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

David O. Russell is on the phone, eager to talk about The Fighter, a movie whose unexpected dash to the top is not all that dissimilar from the story it tells.

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Blackberries Off: Ten Essential Movies For Easily Distracted Twenty-Somethings

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, George C. Scott, Digital Media, Francois Truffaut, Bicycle Thieves, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, Eva Marie Saint, All About Eve, Rashomon, Thanksgiving, The 400 Blows, Best Movies by Farr, Akira Kurosawa, Rod Steiger, Brian Dennehy, Robert Duvall, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, George Sanders, Theatre, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Mulligan, Preston Sturges, Matt Richtel, The New York Times, Veronica Lake, Best Movies on DVD, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Vittorio De Sica, Sidney Lumet, Joel Mcrea, 12 Angry Men, Digital Age, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bette Davis, Entertainment News
John Farr

What if we only had a month in which to force our young adult offspring to see ten essential movies before they succumbed entirely to short-form digital content? My own personal picks.

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Books That Crush Intolerance

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Plantation House, Lord Alfred Douglas, Professor, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, David Leddick, Samuel Stewart, Alice B. Toklas, Joseph Cotten, Justin Spring, George Chauncey, Alice-Roosevelt-Longworth, Gay-Liberation-Network, Sophie Johnson Charles, Tattoo Artist, John Leaphart, Evelyn Waugh, David Patterson, Steven Watson, Syrie Maugham, Gertrude Stein, Gerald Haxton, George Platt Lynes, Thomas Wirth, Barbara Smith, Champange, Paula Byrne, Martin Duberman, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, Ogden Codman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Alfred Kinsey, Thorton Wilder, Olivia De Havilland, Gay, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Brideshead Revisted, W. Somerset Maugham, Selina Hastings, Bill Blizzard, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Stewart, Bronzino, George Santayana, The Duke of Westminister, Gays, Bette Davis, Robert Tritton, Gay Issues, William-Lygon-the-Earl-of-Beauchamp, Sexual Renegade, Books News
Michael Henry Adams

With a nod to Santayana, many feel that history's greatest lesson is the ability it can afford one to travel back in time, to discover one's self, in ...

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Brandon Flowers at the Shimmer Showroom: Solo Songs Shine Light on Fear and Fire

S.X. Rosenstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inception, The Killers, Kim Carnes, Crossfire, Bette Davis, Harry Potter, Brandon Flowers, Las Vegas, June Carter Cash, Bella Swan, Flamingo, Las Vegas Hilton, The Shimmer Cabaret, Arts News
S.X. Rosenstock

The handsome singer, GQ UK's Man of the Year 2008, who makes his audience go weak in the knees, stepped modestly to the microphone and started the show.

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A Tale of Two Sisters: Hollywood's Longest Running Feud

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orson Welles, Clark Gable, Best Movies on DVD, Aldous Huxley, Gone With the Wind, Olivia De Havilland, Best Movies by Farr, The Oscars, Errol Flynn, Montgomery Clift, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Lynn Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, William Wyler, Aaron Copland, Michael Curtiz, Joan Fontaine, Vivien Leigh, David O. Selznick, Bette Davis, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
John Farr

It is exceedingly strange and more than a little sad that actresses Olivia de Havilland, 94, and her sister Joan Fontaine, 93, have been estranged for many years, the result of an intense sibling rivalry which has never dissipated.

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Maria Conchita Alonso on South of the Border (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Maria Conchita Alonso, Oliver Stone, Joan Crawford, South America, South of the Border, Bette Davis, Pat Robertson, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Crossing Our Borders, Movie Review, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

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Mankiewicz Biographer Kenneth Geist on All About Eve (Is Joe)

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Kenneth L. Geist, George Sanders, All About Eve, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Turner Classic Film Festival, Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Like Casablanca (1942), All About Eve (1950) is one of those classic films one can watch over and over again without ever tiring of it.

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TCM Classic Film Fest Debuts in NYC With Mankiewicz's All About Eve at the Ziegfeld

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norman Lloyd, Kenneth L. Geist, Gary Merrill, Robert Osborne, Thelma Ritter, All About Eve, The Good Earth, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Elaine Stritch, Bette Davis, Luise Rainer, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, New York News
Penelope Andrew

All About Eve (1950) was screened free to the public at the Ziegfeld Theatre last Tuesday. It kicked off Turner Classic Movies' first-ever classic film festival here in New York City.

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Democratic Party Pod Congressmen

Tony Blankley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Financial TImes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Health Care, Bette Davis, Hcr, Politics News
Tony Blankley

Here's the thing, my leftie friends. I'm not kidding -- and neither are perhaps a majority of Americans -- seeing that health bill become law has induced in us a paranoia-like fear.

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ReelzChannel: Top Ten Toxic Movie Moms

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Top Ten List, Joan Crawford, Humor, James Cameron, Brian DePalma, Precious, Film, Movies, Bette Davis, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Korean director Joon-ho Bong may have created the ultimate image of matriarchal generosity for his new movie, Mother. Determined to prove her mentally...

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Oscar Schmoscar

Abe Gurko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Best Film, Golden Age of Hollywood, Vera Fermiga, Martin Katz, Gabourey Sidibe, Harry Winston, Monique, Bette Davis, Oscar, A Serious Man, Armani Prive, Judith Leiber, Neil Lane, Up in the Air, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, James Cameron, Meryl Streep, Oscar Telecast, Sandra Bullock, Nine, Entertainment News
Abe Gurko

Attention celebrity publicists: Cut it out. You need to research the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was then that the star machine created real superstars.

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The Alarming Decline Of Expressive Language, In Life and On Film

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George C. Scott, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, William Holden, Instant Messaging, Sterling Hayden, All About Eve, Faye Dunaway, Ernest Lehman, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sellers, Best Movies by Farr, Burt Lancaster, Walter Huston, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Jenkins, George Sanders, Janus Films, Stanley Kubrick, Clifford Odets, Technology, A.O. Scott, Sidney Lumet, Humphrey Bogart, Criterion Collection, Preston Sturges, The Academy Awards, Writing, Al Pacino, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Double Indemnity, Tony Curtis, John Ford, Screenwriting, John Huston, Anne Baxter, Essential Art Films, Marcel Carne, Peter Finch, Paddy Chayefsky, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Walter Winchell, Bette Davis, Entertainment News
John Farr

Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.

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