Actors & Personalities · Reviews
It’s Bert and Harry, together again! Why are you not excited? Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby are not names to conjure with, unless you’re excessively fond of conjuring, but back[…]
Turning “the male gaze” on men It’s true that seeing Rock Hudson surrounded by able-bodied women is fun. In Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964) he’s blocked — trapped in a “stoic”[…]
Actors & Personalities · Genres
All movies have the potential to become a non-movie, particularly when the movie showcases a cause, a disease, a celebrity, an actor’s virtuosity, a play or musical. The movie becomes[…]
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Silents
“I was never young, and if you were never young, how can you ever feel old?” Towards the end of Follow Me, Boys! (1966), a particularly obnoxious piece of Walt[…]
Actors & Personalities · Reviews · Silents
The last of the great silent clowns now on DVD “Step Right Up and Call Me Speedy!” Harold Lloyd has often — too often, really — been called the Anthony[…]
Actors & Personalities · Westerns
“Easy to overlook but endlessly rewarding to look over” Joel McCrea, an amiable, modest actor who turned down parts because he felt he wasn’t good enough for them, began his[…]
Actors & Personalities · Comedy · Directors · Silents
“Love backed by force, forgiveness sweet, brings hope and peace to Easy Street” “Fulfilling my contract with Mutual was, I suppose, the happiest period of my life.” Charlie Chaplin had[…]
Actors & Personalities · Directors
What’s inside those “sculpted spaces of dark intimacy”
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
Bree Daniels trumps all Fonda’s real-life characters
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Interviews
On Million Dollar Baby and a million-dollar career
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred ‘n’ Bing ‘n’ Irv, Part II
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Silents
The first in an occasional series of articles on the life and work of Charlie Chaplin
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred almost suffocates in Minnelli’s Yolanda and the Thief
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
There’s not much room at the Holiday Inn.
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly barely survive Ziegfeld Follies
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
“Never let it be said little Freddie can’t carry his load”
Activist & Political · Actors & Personalities · Essays
The ascension of Arnold salvation, apocalypse, or trigger for a resurgent left?
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Chiu chiu to you, baby
Actors & Personalities · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Stage vet Charles Busch does glam for camp movie
A superstar talks Trash and papayas
