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'Freaky Deaky' Tribeca

Morris Ruskin | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Glengarry Glen Ross, Tribeca Film Festival, Film, Movies, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Andy Dick, Entertainment News

So often we think of Hollywood kids in unflattering terms: troubled, entitled, squandered potential. This past weekend, however, I was charmed by an interaction between the children of two of Hollywood's greats.

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Why We Need Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder's The Apartment More Now than Ever

Vivian Norris | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Shirley MacLaine, Legion D'honneur, Mensch, Frederic Mitterrand, Mistress, The Apartment, Jack Lemmon, Deauville American Film Festival, Film, Billy Wilder, Corporate Culture, Entertainment News

Perhaps this morality tale will cheer up a few folks who are out of work in the big city...things could be worse, you could still be working for some schmuck, dating some jerk, serving the corporate beast.

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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, ?the 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

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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Stars Fight For Increased NEA Funding

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Politics, Kevin Spacey, Art, Hill Harper, Academy Awards, Jack Lemmon, Social Network, Theater, American Beauty, Nea, Ars Funding, National Endowment for the Arts, Alec Baldwin, Arts News

WASHINGTON -- Kevin Spacey performed some impromptu "street theater" Tuesday to ask Congress for continued funding of the National Endowment for the A...

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Christian Bale: So Many Good Parts, but Is There a Part Missing?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, Lee Marvin, James Stewart, Clark Gable, George W. Bush, Best Movies on DVD, George Clooney, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Alec Guinness, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Barack Obama, Henry Fonda, Christian Bale, Tobey Maguire, The Oscars, Jeff Bridges, Sean Penn, The Dark Knight, The Academy Awards, Jack Lemmon, Leonardo Di Caprio, Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, Robert De Niro, Humphrey Bogart, Entertainment News

Christian Bale strikes me as a complete enigma. Yes, his acting chops are prodigious, but he seems to me to be all technique and no heart; we get buckets of perfectly formed ice, but very little fire.

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Remembering Robert Altman

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philip Baker Hall, Emily Watson, Susannah York, Avon Theatre, Sissy Spacek, Buck Henry, Best Movies on DVD, Maggie Smith, Best Movies by Farr, Tim Roth, Helen Mirren, Tim Robbins, Julie Christie, Keith Carradine, Julianne Moore, Frances McDormand, Warren Beatty, Richard Nixon, Alan Bates, Jack Lemmon, Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Shelley Duvall, Robert Altman, Andie Macdowell, Lily Tomlin, Kristen Scott-Thomas, Entertainment News

I was understandably nervous and excited to meet this man. It was May 5th, 2004 in Stamford, Connecticut. As co-founder of a newly restored landmark...

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They Belong in Every Home: The Ten Best Holiday Movies by Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

The values and emotions imparted in these timeless films are sure to stoke the spirit of "Peace On Earth, Good Will Towards Men" (and women). Happy viewing!

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Investing In The Movies

Morris Ruskin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investing, David Mamet, Film, Economy, Jack Lemmon, Movies, Al Pacino, Business News

RICKY ROMA Stocks, bonds, objects of art, real estate. What are they? (pause) An op...

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Missing Mr. Matthau

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenda Jackson, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Kirk Douglas, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, Sidney Lumet, Robert Shaw, Jack Lemmon, Don Siegel, Elia Kazan, Gregory Peck, Entertainment News

On the first of this month, Walter Matthau, who left us just a decade ago, would have turned ninety. Ruminating on this unnoted milestone made me consider anew what a unique and gifted screen actor he was.

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Remembering Tony Curtis

Morris Ruskin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Cannes Film Festival, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis Dead, Tony Curtis Death, Entertainment News

Tony loved being famous. But there was another side to Tony: He was also a fragile, wounded human.

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Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

One had to acknowledge and admire Tony Curtis's sheer spirit and zest. But while Curtis was the ultimate public personality, filmmaker Arthur Penn, who died two days ago, was basically a private man.

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Professional Pictures: Movies About Our Day Jobs

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Broadcasting, Charlie Sheen, Kirk Douglas, Lawyers, Oliver Stone, William Holden, Billy Wilder, Faye Dunaway, Best Movies on DVD, Real Estate, Rock Hudson, Best Movies by Farr, Business, Professions, Kevin Spacey, Sidney Lumet, Peter Finch, Finance, William Wyler, Ingrid Bergman, Doris Day, Paddy Chayefsky, Jack Lemmon, The-Corporation-2004, David Mamet, Alec Baldwin, Gregory Peck, Michael Douglas, Rod Serling, Entertainment News

As seen through the revealing lens of timeless film, you can derive a measure of comfort and perspective amidst the seeming complexity of it all, because the pressures and vicissitudes of the work place go back a very long way.

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Confessions Of A Closet Curmudgeon

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Famous Curmudgeons, Living News, Archie Bunker, Art Carney, Featured Contributor, The Huffington Post, Cult of Curmudgeon, Jack Lemmon, Curmudgeons-Club, Dr. Judith Rich, Andy Rooney Shoes, Lewis Black, Jackie Gleason, Ebeneezer Scrooge, Walter Matthau, Video, Healthy Living News

"Astute perception and sly wit" -- who wouldn't sign up for that? And how about a lack of a "serviceable denial mechanism?" Sounds good to me! Doesn't everyone aspire to these qualities?

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The Top Father/Son Movie Stars, Bar None

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Steven Soderbergh, Glenn Close, Peter Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Anthony Quinn, Benicio Del Toro, Stanley Kubrick, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Billy Wilder, Jane Fonda, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Don Cheadle, Vincente Minnelli, Henry Fonda, Ava Gardner, Jeff Bridges, Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Lemmon, Lana Turner, Lloyd Bridges, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Entertainment News

With advance apologies to Lloyd and Jeff Bridges, Henry and Peter Fonda, Martin and Charlie Sheen, this special designation belongs to Kirk and Michael Douglas.

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Ten Films For The Coming Weeks

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Graduate, Fred MacMurray, Woody Allen, Thanksgiving, Paul Simon, The Thin Man, The Apartment, Animal House, Diane Keaton, Peter Sellers, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Don Cheadle, Ben Affleck, Father of the Bride Movie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Grant, Burt Reynolds, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Stanwyck, Blake Edwards, Boogie Nights, Grace Kelly, Julianne Moore, Matthew McConaughey, Bonnie and Clyde, Jack Lemmon, Jeff Goldblum, Parker Posey, Preston Sturges, Dustin Hoffman, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Taylor, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, William Powell, John C. Reilly, It's a Wonderful Life, Holiday Season Commentary, To Catch a Thief, Billy Wilder, Mark Wahlberg, A Christmas Carol, Dazed and Confused, Jon Voight, Parties, Henry Fonda, Mad Men, Midnight Cowboy, Shirley MacLaine, P.T. Anderson, Annie Hall, Richard Linklater, Myrna Loy, Heather Graham, The Love Boat, Entertainment News

Get ready, folks, for the coming blur of forced reunions, work-related functions, and cacophonous Christmas parties.

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The Ten Best Movies About Journalism by Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Mitchum, Pbs, Journalists, Kirk Douglas, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Jane Fonda, Billy Wilder, American Masters, Best Movies by Farr, Journalism, Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Woodward, Tom Brokaw, Jack-Lemmon, Peter Jennings, Reel 13, 60 Minutes, Mel Gibson, Warren Beatty, Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, Sam Waterston, Dan Rather, Peter Saarsgard, PBS Documentaries, Jason Robards, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Entertainment News

In the wake of the revered Walter Cronkite's passing, I've attempted to isolate the ten best movies about journalism.

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A Wistful Champagne Toast to William Powell

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carole Lombard, Screwball Comedy, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Irene Dunne, Nostalgia, Classic Movies, Hollywood, Henry Fonda, Entertainment News

One of the finest actors and leading men from Hollywood's Golden Age, William Powell was born towards the end of this month way back in 1892. It's unlikely most people under 30 would even recognize his name, which is sad, but also easily remedied.

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Summer Reading on a Sunny (Doris) Day: David Kaufman's The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door Part I

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Garner, Louis Jordan, James Cagney, Terry Melcher, Clark Gable, Norman Jewison, Love Me or Leave Me, David Kaufman, Rock Hudson, Hollywood, Martin Melcher, Pillow Talk, Judy Garland, Ethel Barrymore, Alfred Hitchcock, David Niven, Doris Day, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jack Lemmon, Films, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jimmy Stewart, Patrick O'Neal, Biographies, Michael Curtiz Ethel Barrymore, Thelma Ritter, Charles Ludlam, Storm Warning, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Spring Byington, Calamity Jance, Animal Rights, Kitty Foyle, Paul McCartney, Helen Forrest, Ginger Rogers, Janis Paige, Peggy Lee, The Great American Songbook, Oprah Winfrey, A Streetcar Named Desire, Linda Eastman McCartney, Table, Entertainment News

There are certain actors we encounter as children having grown up on classic film who have a profound impact on us, and no one knows this better than David Kaufman, author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door.

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Just When Did The Quality Of Hollywood Films Start To Drop?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey, Shia La Beouf, Richard Dreyfuss, William Holden, James Stewart, Clark Gable, Classic Film, Angelina Jolie, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Peter Sellers, Spencer Tracy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Downey Jr, Cary Grant, Robin Williams, Christian Bale, Ingrid Bergman, Foreign Films, Jack Lemmon, Paul Hogan, Bette Midler, Dancing With the Stars, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo Dicaprio, Technology, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, Tyrone Power, John Travolta, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Danny Devito, John Wayne, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Warren Beatty, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman, Myrna Loy, Will Smith, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Adam Sandler, Steve McQueen, Daniel Craig, Meg Ryan, Tom Selleck, Hollywood, The Quigley Poll, Sidney Poitier, Entertainment News

While Hollywood continues to dominate the global film market, the most original, intelligent, and enduring movies today are being made outside this country.

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30 Years After TMI, A Lesson For Today's Economists

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Trust, Tmi, Pennsylvania, Nuclear Power, Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Ithaca, Federal Trade Commission, Harrisburg, China Syndrome, Three Mile Island, Harrisburg-Pennsylvania, Business News

Our new test for any enterprise, be it a financial institution, a power plant, or a war, must be, "Is it too large to be allowed to fail?" If the answer is "yes" then we cannot proceed.

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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