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Genius Uncovered: The Film Legacy of Howard Hawks

John Farr | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies, Howard Hawks, Lauren Bacall, Classic Movies, Howard Hawks Movies, Howard Hawks Retrospective, Entertainment News
John Farr

Over a forty-plus year career, it's astonishing that this brilliant director was Oscar-nominated only once. As I've often said, sometimes the Academy gets it wrong. This was one of those times.

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Why Ben Kingsley Thinks 'The Dictator' Will End His 'Serious' Career

The Huffington Post | Mike Ryan | Posted 05.15.2012

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It's rare, but every so often, I get that sudden moment of extreme self-consciousness while doing an interview: "I'm really just sitting here chatting...

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Kirk Douglas Turns 95!

John Farr | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Robert Mitchum, Walter Matthau, Charles Laughton, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Stanley Kubrick, Academy Awards, Burt Lancaster, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Spartacus, Best Movies by Farr, Vincente Minnelli, Ava Gardner, Laurence Olivier, Lauren Bacall, Lana Turner, Michael Douglas, Old Hollywood, Hollywood, Celebrities, Entertainment News
John Farr

Should we call him "Spartacus"? Or "Champion"? Both names certainly fit the man. Kirk Douglas turns 95 tomorrow, and he is still very much with us.

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Classic Celebrity Memoirs And Their Contemporary Counterparts

flavorwire.com | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Saul Bellow, Just Kids, Memoirs, Sammy Hagar, Hulk Hogan, Patti Smith, Lauren Bacall, Celebrity Memoirs, Keith Richards, Justin Bieber, Books News

"Everybody needs his memories," Saul Bellow once wrote. "They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." These days, the same can be true of fame...

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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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The 2011 Academy Awards: It Gets a C-Plus at Best

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billy Crystal, Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Mo'Nique, Hugh Jackman, The Oscars, Helen Mirren, Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock, Halle Berry, Mary Martin, Christian Bale, The Fighter, Eli Wallach, Tony Curtis, David Seidler, The Social Network, Bob Hope, Billy Wilder, Gone With the Wind, Lena Horne, Anne Hathaway, John Hughes, Russell Brand, Tom Hanks, Francis Ford Coppola, The King's Speech, Ethel Merman, Michael Russnow, Reese Witherspoon, Aaron Sorkin, Kenneth Brownlow, Fred Zinnemann, Melissa Leo, Lauren Bacall, Colin Firth, James Franco, Christoph Waltz, Abc, Film, Oscars 2011, Celebrities, Natalie Portman, Award Season, Movies, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

You know the writers are in trouble when they have to rely upon Hathaway's mother and Franco's grandmother to help out in the audience. All in all the show was mediocre, but not a disaster.

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What Smart People Wear

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gloria Vanderbilt, Recycled Jewelry, Mona Williams Von Bismarck, Versailles, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ruben Toledo, Nordstrom, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jewelry, Sapphire, Grafton-Trew, Pearls, Indochine, Museum of the City of New York, Amy Fine Collins, A'leia Walker, Fashion, Shoes, Ruben Toledo's Fashion Almanac, The Metropolitan Opera, Emerald, Taste, Time Magazine, Carmen De Lavallade, Geoffrey Holder, Diana Vreeland, Hats, Lena Horne, Marian Anderson, Pat Buckley, Helena Rubenstein, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, Notorious & Notable: 20th Century Women of Style, Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Diamonds, Isabel Toledo, Life Magazine, Style, Phyllis Magidson, Lauren Bacall, Jewelry Trends, Fashion Show, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Watching to see what chic people wear is fascinating. One mightn't think it has anything whatsoever to do with styles from the past, but of cou...

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Honorary Academy Awards: Memo to Tom Sherak, the Separate Ceremony Is a Travesty!

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenn Close, Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Peter O'Toole, Ernest Lehman, The Emmy Awards, Deborah Kerr, The Oscars, Cbs, Irving Thalberg, Hollywood and Highland, Jean-Luc Godard, Myrna Loy, Creative Arts Ceremony, Steven Spielberg, Jeopardy, Ram Productions, Eli Wallach, Philadelphia, Abc, Award Season, Roger Corman, Nbc, Twitter, Facebook, Tom Sherak, John Hughes, Schindler's List, Tom Hanks, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Russnow, Youtube, Oscars 2010, Lauren Bacall, Kevin Brownlow, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

The Motion Picture Academy does an injustice, not only to the recipients but to their fans, by continuing its new policy of presenting honorary Oscars at a special function in November instead of the ceremony next February.

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The Night of the Oscar

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sam Wasson

In trying to appeal to the young, the producers of the 82nd Academy Awards turned what could have been a meaningful evening into a bloodless night of dinner theater.

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The Oscars a Mixed Bag: Kudos for Bringing Back And the Winner Is

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Russnow, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Minghella, The Emmy Awards, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Jackman, The Oscars, Alec Baldwin, Alfred Hitchcock, Satire, Jeff Bridges, Tea and Sympathy, Emmys, Gordon Willis, Avatar, The Hurt Locker, The Tony Awards, Abc, Kate Winslet, Roger Corman, Billy Wilder, George Clooney, Oscar, John Hughes, Steve Martin, Neil Patrick Harris, Penelope Cruz, Adam Shankman, Robert Anderson, Cher, Meryl Streep, Michael Russnow, Michael Giacchino, Fred Zinnemann, Oscars 2010, Up, Lauren Bacall, Christoph Waltz, The Blindside, Bill Mechanic, Writers Guild, Award Season, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

The 82nd Academy Awards on ABC was a mixed bag. It was a tepid start, but eventually picked up steam heading for the finish line.

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Soon-To-Be Classic Tales of Love

Meredith C. Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Mark Sanford, Joe Klein, Paul Newman, Rielle Hunter, The Way We Were, Bobby Brown, The Long Hot Summer, Andrew Young, Casablanca, Whitney Houston, Primary Colors, Warren Beatty, Barbara Walters, Staying True, Elizabeth Edwards, Tiger Woods, Brooke Mueller, Being Bobby Brown, John Edwards, Elin Nordegren, The Notebook, Jenny Sanford, Lauren Bacall, Joanne Woodward, Humphrey Bogart, Comedy News
Meredith C. Carroll

In the days leading up to Valentine's Day, several real-life romances have emerged as potential threats to the on-screen classics like Bogart and Bacall and Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.

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The Black Elite Meet Uptown

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HRH Princess Senait Asfaw, Vogue, Kirk Shannon-Butts, Emil Wilberkin, Liza Minnelli, José Duran, Barbara Streisand, Lara-Stone-Blackface, Bethanne Hardison, Tyson Perez, Pat Cleveland, Malcolm Harris, Ransal Jacobs, Alva Chinn, Diana Ross, Gordon Chambers, Ludget Delcy, Dinna Soliman, Norma Darden, Cher, Jerri Hall, Farrah Fawcet, Andre Leon Talley, Lauren Hutton, Lauren Bacall, Stephen Burrows, Lloyd Boston, Audrey Schmaltz, Epherson, Lialia, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Billed as Collections, Spring Season 2010, Harlem's Fashion Row, the showing of creative apparel I attended Thursday night was extraordinary.

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Dumb Things Celebrites Say: Ashton Kutcher

Mark Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Love Scene, Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, To Have & Have Not, Angelina Jolie, Sex, Lauren Bacall, Stupid, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Mark Joseph

Kutcher lives in a reality-free zone wherein human beings are unemotional creatures who can perform sex scenes without any emotional attachment.

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Why John Wayne Still Ranks Among Today's Most Popular Stars

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Denzel Washington, Ron Howard, John Farrow, Don Siegel, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Most Popular Movie Stars, John Wayne, War Movies, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Westerns, Johnny Depp, Harris Poll, Lauren Bacall, Gary Cooper, Donna Reed, Entertainment News
John Farr

Wayne's persona -- its bigness, roughness, but also its decency -- literally came to define our heritage. And to a surprising degree, it still does.

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PHOTOS: Liam Neeson, Family And Friends Together At Natasha Richardson's Wake

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Family and friends gathered at the American Irish Historical Society in Manhattan for Natasha Richardson on Friday afternoon. Among the mourners we...

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The Best Bogart Movies By Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Raft, Warner Brothers, Gloria Grahame, Casablanca, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, Christmas Birthdays, Hollywood's Golden Age., Classic Film, Movies About Hollywood, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Gangster Movies, Jose Ferrer, Lauren Bacall, Fed MacMurray, War Movies, Humphrey Bogart, Entertainment News
John Farr

What follows are my favorite under-exposed Bogie picks. I'm consciously omitting what are arguably his most famous "landmark" films.

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Lauren Bacall: Tom Cruise Is A "Maniac"

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauren Bacall slams Tom Cruise in the new issue of Elle. In a profile of Nicole Kidman, which was excerpted earlier this week, the legendary actress c...

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