Certain moments in cinema are etched into our memories forever. Rick saying “Here’s looking at you, kid” to Ilsa in Casablanca. Gene Kelly dancing to the titular song in Singin’ in the Rain. And of co...
06.27.2025 Yahoo.com and 1 sitesThe 1950s were the last full decade of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood filmmakers weren’t the only ones flourishing in the ‘50s. Filmmakers from Italy, Japan, France, Mexico and many other coun...
06.28.2025 Forbes.comThere are novels that blaze across the cultural sky, earn instant acclaim, and then fade so quietly that a whole generation forgets they ever held pride of place on bedside tables. 'Marjorie Morningst...
06.26.2025 Timesnownews.com33 SHARES Share Tweet To sign up for our daily email newsletter, CLICK HERE Follow @marcberman Follow @SonOfTheBronx Television The beginning of commercial television broadcasting began in 1941. The F...
07.01.2025 Programminginsider.comby Stephen Vagg As mentioned in our previous piece in this series, the year of 1958 saw the Rank Organisation’s film department hit with severe financial losses, the sacking of over 300 people, and the cancellation of several high-profile projects including the Dirk Bogarde version of Lawrence of Arabia . One would assume that Rank would enter 1959 with a mood of trepidation. Yet it remained bullish, at least publicly. An article by the Organisation’s head of distribution even said this would be...
06.27.2025 Filmink.com.auIt’s true, though, isn’t it? Over the last five years, this quip became a refrain, uttered in response to my elevator pitch of this project, a study of a trope I identify as proliferating in American ...
06.30.2025 Chireviewofbooks.comSir, we will go waltzing Matilda with you. - PM John Gorton crooning to US President Nixon (1969) You have a true friend 'Down Under'. . . . Americans can do anything . . . There is a reason the world...
06.27.2025 Canberratimes.com.au0 Your Beginnings Your first memory of living art? I Grew up in a host home for people with mental disabilities, founded by my parents. There, our community life was punctuated by celebrations of reli...
06.30.2025 World-today-news.comCelebrate the 75th anniversary of “Summer Stock, ” the 1950 MGM musical starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, with a screening in its original 35mm format on Wednesday, July 16, at the historic Orient...
06.26.2025 Marquette.eduA study has found that women who read romance or erotic novels have 74 percent more sex with their partners than those who ignore the literary genre. Research on sexual fantasies, published in Psychological Bulletin, further claimed that those who re...
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