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Apr.04.2013
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Dec.31.2012
We're just coming back from family time up at Lake Donner, near Lake Tahoe. A friend made a mountain home overlooking the lake available to me and my kids. We've been skiing and boarding and watching holiday movies, from It's a Wonderful Life to Mixed Nuts.
Another friend sent this...
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Dec.21.2012
It has not been a holly jolly time. I don't have to tell you; anyone read a newspaper knows it. Anything I write here will be a salve. But you need some salve to get through the day. A couple of weeks ago Huntington and I made plans to see It's A Wonderful Life. The Century theaters were doing a...
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Dec.12.2012
Tis the season to revisit a cherished classic that features stars in my Forgotten Hollywood Book Series, including Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Gloria Grahame, Beulah Bondi, and Ward Bond; plus the fine work of James Stewart, Donna Reed, Frank Faylen, and Henry Travers.
~ The...
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Nov.08.2012
Theatre-going audiences in the Pacific Northwest will have the unique opportunity to enjoy a masterfully planned double bill on November 14th. Part of the year-round Seattle Intertnational Film Festival (SIFF) program, virtually join the Master of Suspense, and his seminal...
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Oct.17.2012
The Hollywood Blvd. and Hollywood Palms are elite full-service restaurants, bars, and movie theaters in the greater Chicagoland area.
A very popular series of celebrity events often includes a table in the lobby, where you can briefly...
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Dec.22.2011
Lionel Barrymore’s annual radio performance of playing Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol led to Frank Capra casting the veteran actor as Mr. Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life. He honored us as Scrooge for seventeen years; a holiday tradition that began...
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Nov.23.2011
Historic movie theatres across the country are kicking off the Holiday season by presenting classic films. Here’s a representative sampling of screenings taking place.
~ LOEW’S JERSEY THEATRE – 54 Journal Square, Jersey City, NJ
A true motion picture palace, this landmark...
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Dec.11.2010
At the time It’s a Wonderful Life was made in 1946, more than a few folks speculated that Director Frank Capra based his mythical community of Bedford Falls on the New York mill-town of Seneca Falls in Upstate New York. Well, the community has embraced this urban legend, and has just opened The...
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Feb.22.2009
Tonight, as everyone knows, is the Oscars ceremony. I have to admit that I did not see many of the movies, not because of time, but because I cannot watch films that involve some kind of trauma. It’s not an anti-violence thing with me. I used to see all kinds of movies.
But within the last 10...
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