Posted on December 14, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I love Kris Rasmussen’s list of favorite holiday movie moments from Idol Chatter. Some of my favorites are included and I was especially happy to see one most people overlook, the Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn movie “Holiday:” Made by the same team behind the classic “The Philadelphia Story,” it is a rare chance to see Grant show off his acrobatic skills.
Posted on December 1, 2008 at 6:00 am
William Gibson, best known as the man who wrote The Miracle Worker
Gibson’s sequel to “The Miracle Worker,” “Monday After the Miracle,” was not a success, but I thought it was a fine play. I also have a special fondness for Two for the Seesaw
I loved Gibson’s comment about the subjects of his most famous play, included in the Washington Post obituary by Adam Bernstein:
“I like to fall a little in love with my heroines, and the title — from Mark Twain, who said, ‘Helen is a miracle, and Miss Sullivan is the miracle-worker’ — was meant to show where my affections lay. This stubborn girl of 20, who six years earlier could not write her name, and in one month salvaged Helen’s soul, and lived thereafter in its shadow, seemed to me to deserve a star bow.”
Posted on November 26, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Steve Martin plays a man trying to get home for Thanksgiving in his slapstick classic.
Posted on November 18, 2008 at 4:46 pm
My very favorite cartoon character turns 80 today. Happy birthday, Mickey!
Posted on June 25, 2008 at 8:00 am
The American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony for Warren Beatty will be broadcast tonight at 9 pm EST on the USA Network. Beatty’s notorious romantic life and political activism has sometimes distracted the media from his achievements as an actor, writer, and director. (Expect some jokes about his appearance in two of the biggest money-losers of all time, the not-as-horrible-as-its-reputation “Ishtar” and the even-worse-than-you-can-imagine Town and Country).
Watch him in the final scenes of his very first film, Splendor in the Grass, a pioneering exploration of sexuality and repression. Beatty and co-stars Natalie Wood and Zohra Lampert are heart wrenching as each must confront the compromises necessary for achieving maturity.
His most family-friendly performance is in Heaven Can Wait
Mature audiences should see the classic (but very violent) Bonnie and Clyde
