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May.05.2013
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has announced the upcoming launch of a new digital broadcast network aimed at reaching the classic-film fan. GetTV will launch in the United States some time this Fall. The production company is a small screen distribution subsidiary of Sony...
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Apr.04.2013
One of the most prolific critics of cinema passed away on Thursday. Roger Ebert was also a fine journalist and screenwriter, who was described by Forbes Magazine as the most powerful pundit in America. He was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, as well as, the first to be...
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Jan.29.2013
The 17th Annual Kansas Silent Film Festival is a great way to watch fabulous cinema from the Silent Era for FREE. This event will be held at the White Concert Hall, nestled at Washburn University in Topeka.
Enjoy forgotten early works of Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel...
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Jan.07.2013
Turner Classic Movies is set to honor Danny Kaye and Dick Van Dyke with extensive programming. This is a great opportunity to re-visit their iconic work.
~ DANNY KAYE – To celebrate his 100 birthday, TCM is planning to spend Sunday, January 20th with films and television programs devoted to...
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Dec.06.2012
The longtime home of Bob and Dolores Hope is expected to soon be put on the real estate market. Located in Toluca Lake, on the corner of Moorpark and Ledge, it’s a lingering reminder that at one time, the San Fernando Valley was the Southern California home to the stars; including Lucille Ball and...
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Nov.20.2012
Turner Classic Movies has secured the rights to broadcast about 50 vintage interviews from The Tonight Show. Beginning in the Summer of 2013, TCM will air the footage in a series of ten one-hour episodes, primarily prior to, or after, a motion picture starring the subject...
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Sep.06.2012
Carl Rollyson is Professor of Journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He reviews biographies regularly for The Wall Street Journal, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and other newspapers and periodicals.
Professor Rollyson was kind enough to write a fitting review in one of his...
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Aug.01.2012
With the 2012 Summer Olympics chugging along in London, the British Film Institute has made their choices for the greatest films of all time. These selections are compiled and updated every decade, and printed in their official magazine, Sight and Sound. There were 846 critics,...
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Jul.27.2012
Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History clearly examines the topic of Disability in Film. The catalyst of this most special of chapters is Lionel Barrymore, who pioneered non-disability roles in cinema he appeared in after 1938, while obviously confined to crutches or a wheelchair....
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Jul.13.2012
I went to see the Turner Classic Movie's presentation of the 60th Anniversary of Singing in the Rain last evening and what a blast!! The theater was just about sold out -- the only seats left were the ones directly in front. And the audience was from every age bracket, men & women,...
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