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Mar.02.2011
It's all about her 38 D size, her blouse that slipped off her shoulder, her pout. At 89, Jane Russell has made her exit and still these are memories people carry of her. I did not notice any of this when only a few months ago I watched Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for the first time on a flight...
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Jan.08.2011
"This is my gift to you," my dad said to my older brother. "For your twenty first birthday I give you my Doggie Diner on El Camino Real in South San Francisco."
My dad, Albert Campbell, and oldest brother, Ronald Campbell, stood in our big kitchen of our 80 year old 24 room...
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Dec.29.2010
This is Iran's way of getting back at the Western propaganda using the means employed by the mainstream western entertainment industry. Sakineh Ashtiani may have been hanged to death, not stoned, but now they just might do it - to spite the international pressure. Or they will keep her alive...
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Dec.23.2010
HOLLYWOOD
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Dec.13.2010
British actress Helen Mirren has accused Hollywood of being sexist. She states that Hollywood makes movies for young men and their penises, starring lots of nubile, near-naked young women, leaving few roles for the more mature actress. She has a point, but Hollywood also makes an enormous number of...
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Dec.03.2010
The Gentlemen of 1980 died within a day of each other. Yet thirty years before they were responsible for two of my favorite movies. One a sequel to a blockbuster, one changed his image and started a whole movie trend. I knew Leslie Nielsen from the movie Tammy and the Bachelor, starring Debbie...
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Dec.01.2010
For a while there I had entree to the Paramount Pictures studio lot on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, through a casting director I knew, but then got cut off (classic Hollywood! – in today, out tomorrow). So I began to sneak in. Not bad at it, successful a couple times. I knew a guard who'd look the...
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Nov.28.2010
It blasted into my childhood with the force of a supernova. Science fiction film. There was my first love, Rod Taylor in "The Time Machine," "Them," with its crawling gigantic ants, and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" where a man called Carpenter was more than a man...
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Nov.17.2010
This post is the sequel to my first article for DailyFinance, "The Paltry Economics of Being a Novelist." In that piece, I describe how novelists (theoretically) profit from their books. Here, speaking as the author of Pay It Forward, which was adapted to film, I delve into what happens...
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