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Curio: Witches Brew
Alexa here, chiming in for The Witches of Eastwick week. The film remains one of my 80s favorites, a strong showing in an especially strong year for women in film (Moonstruck! Broadcast News!)....
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'Best Shot' Resumes Production on June 27th
"Hit Me With Your Best Shot" returns from its month-long hiatus in two weeks. Will you join us? I'll try to catch up soon with Possessed (1947) which had terrible timing given my father's passing....
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Tuesday Top Ten - Motion (Picture) Sickness
. JA from MNPP here. First off, my apologies to those of you with weaker constitutions. This might not be your sort of Top Ten list today. With that out of the way, want to know why I still won't eat...
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Burning Questions: Broadway's Cinematic Potential?
Michael C. here in the aftermath of the Tony's to return the focus to where it belongs: Movies. The film version of Porgy & Bess (1959) is rarely seen. Audra McDonald & Norm Lewis in the...
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True Blood 5.1 "Turn! Turn! Turn!"
I had such a good time covering True Blood last year that I decided early on that I'd chime in again this year. Unfortunately those slutty Bon Temps whackjobs and their blaspheming god (Alan Ball) did...
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Twins: Michelle's Blonde Brood
We're celebrating twins daily at 2:22 pm while we're in Gemini Gratuitous Anecdote! I've always loved to draw and in my high school years it's what people knew me for. I won the High School's...
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Open (Sick Bed) Thread
I had so much blogging planned today but some sort of achey feverish flu struck me and I am out of commission. Has some devil hexed me? Someone who doesn't like twins, Witches of Eastwick, Mad Men wrap...
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Mad Men @ The Movies Knocks Out the Cobwebs
Only the most surface reading of Mad Men would suggest that it's The Don Draper Show. His (forged) identity is, like most identities at some point or another, a prison. But it's also a prism and if...
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Reunions from the Edge
Meryl Streep has been out and about celebrating co-stars this week including Postcards from the Edge mom Shirley Maclaine who was honored at an AFI celebration. Meryl, who turns 63 next Friday, is...
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Twins: The Poetry of "The Twins"
Are you enjoying the twins series? I can't tell but if not, what do you have against Geminis? Pre-Cogs A few days ago my mind flashed violently back to Minority Report (2002). I blame the recent...
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The Lord of the Links: The Return of the Link
whoa. no link roundups in forever. time to catch up on movie news and/or must see web droppings Yahoo Movies Fine Thelma Adams piece on Prometheus' "foreign object" sequence. [shudder]24 Frames Noomi...
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Oscar Snub? Supporting Actress 1987
Witches of Eastwick 25th anniversary week ends this weekend. I intended to do much more but we'll see what little can be conjured still. Cherries, Oatmeal, Satan and her weak husband just make her...
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Complete the Sentence. Everyone Should Watch...
Everyone should watch ______________ immediately because ________________ . If you haven't seen it _______________.
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The Diary of Peggy Siegal
High Powered Publicist Peggy Siegal's has just released her Cannes Diary at the Huffington Post. Better three weeks late than never. Peggy throws great Oscar shindigs here in NYC where much handshaking...
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and I can't fight this linking anymore... I've forgotten what I started...
Vulture the best grimaces and grins from Mad Men season 5. Good stuffTim Robey interviews the great Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen on his very busy career (Thor 2, Hannibal TV series, A Royal Affair and...
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Pfeiffer Premieres, Then & Now
It's Pfeiffer Pfriday... on Saturday! (I can't be constrained by calendars and sunsets.) Joe reminded me in the comments earlier today that 20 years ago on this very day the stars were walking the red...
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Cast This! "Witches of Eastwick" Redux
So my Witches of Eastwick 25th anniversary celebration was not at all as comprehensive as I hoped for it to be but we need to wrap up. We barely talked about the three divas at all! (Sigh). As exit...
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Thoughts I Had... About 5 Recent Movie Dads
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all the readers celebrating their dad today whether or not he's a movie-lover. Especially big props go out to the proud papa readers out there raising their own movie-mad tots....
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Someone Needs To Get More Sleep...
Someone named Christian Bale (pictured on the set of Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups) Hasn't he seen The Machinist? Insomnia is dangerous!
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