James Mason

Mad Men through The Boomer Lens: 'Best Episode Of The Season!'

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Television, Don Draper, Entertainment, Jaguar, Paul Newman, Jack Warden, Peggy Olson, Lindsay Crouse, Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Advertising, Boomer, Mo Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Phil Abraham, Peter Campbell, Fifty News
Steven C. Eisner

This was Mad Men's Mt. Everest moment. The quality of the acting and writing, the show's deep substance and the unparalleled directing savvy pushed the ensemble to a new high.

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A Tray of Green Cupcakes

Alice Carey | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Changing Your Accent, St. Patrick's Day, Being Irish, James Mason, Ireland, Identity, Irish Identity, Style News
Alice Carey

Accents are funny things, instantly accepted or rejected by their very sound. In New York I was the only kid at school with an Irish brogue.

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Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors

John Farr | Posted 06.09.2011

Read More: James Mason, Academy Awards, William Holden, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, Sean Connery, Best Movies on DVD, Katharine Hepburn, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Rod Steiger, Walter Matthau, Henry Fonda, Sidney Lumet, Peter Finch, Paddy Chayefsky, Jason Robards, Entertainment News
John Farr

Sidney Lumet was a giant in his field, a director who always sought to make intelligent films that had the ring of truth.

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Sixteen New DVDs You Must Check Out

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Where the Wild Things Are, Katharine Hepburn, Leo McCarey, Doctor Who, Dvds, Ponyo, Joe Berlinger, Reviews, Make Way for Tomorrow, James Mason, Criterion, Crude, T.a.M.I. Show, Maurice Sendak, James Brown, Miyazaki, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Here are 16 DVD releases that are the best of the best from the first four months of 2010. Rent them, buy them, stream them; do whatever you want. Just don't miss them.

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For St. Patrick's Day, The Best Irish Movies By Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Mason, Neil Jordan, The Criterion Collection, St. Patrick's Day, John Sayles, Best Movies on DVD, Ireland, Best Movies by Farr, Colm Meany, Barry Fitzgerald, John Wayne, Jim Sheridan, John Ford, Northern Ireland, Robert Flaherty, Carol Reed, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Greengrass, Entertainment News
John Farr

With the always raucous, spirited celebration of St. Patrick's Day on the near horizon here in New York City, my thoughts turn to the powerful mystique of Ireland, and the many outstanding films that reflect it.

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In a World Starved For Great Comedy, Why Not Revisit Some Stellar Sellers?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Mason, George C. Scott, Angela Lansbury, Spike Milligan, Stanley Kubrick, George Roy Hill, Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellers, Best Movies by Farr, Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Blake Edwards, Shirley MacLaine, The Goons, David Niven, Hal Ashby, Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Rush, Terry-Thomas, Entertainment News
John Farr

Peter Sellers, best known to the world as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the "Pink Panther" series, would have turned 84 this month. Wouldn't life be brighter if this comic genius hadn't left us so soon?

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On His Birthday, Taking The Measure Of Brando

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Mason, Martin Sheen, Bernardo Bertolucci, Eva Marie Saint, Al Pacino, Mario Puzo, Joshua Logan, Julius Caesar, Tennessee Williams, Montgomery Clift, Lee J. Cobb, Method Acting, Francis Ford Coppola, Stella Adler, Dean Martin, The Godfather, Red Buttons, Apocalypse Now, The Method, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, A Streetcar Named Desire, Shakespeare, On the Waterfront, Last Tango in Paris, Elia Kazan, James Michener, Entertainment News
John Farr

Brando's filmography provides sufficient proof that the actor's own demons helped stall a career that in its hey-day (the mid-late fifties) seemed limitless in potential.

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Chris Mason, Transgender Wife, Gets 4 Years For Husband's Death

AP | M.R. KROPKO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Mason, James Mason, Transgender Wife, Home News

MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio — James M. Mason knew his wife since she was born a boy. The janitor and former military man was a boarder in the child's home...

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Christine Newton-John, Ohio Woman, Pleads Guilty To Exercising Her Husband To Death

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exercise Death, Christine Newton-John, James Mason, Home News

CHARDON, Ohio — A woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool, repeatedly r...

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On His Birthday, The Best Cary Grant Movies By Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Mason, Stanley Donen, Rita Hayworth, Screwball Comedy, Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Classic Comedy, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Jean Arthur, Irene Dunne, Classic Movies, Movie Stars, Howard Hawks, Entertainment News
John Farr

The evidence of Cary Grant's prodigious talent is always here, right in front of us, if we choose to look.

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