Sunday, August 24, 2014

Out of the closet and Behind the Candelabra

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Michael Douglas is mincing across my TV screen in Behind the Candelabra , the HBO teleflick in which the Oscar winning star of Wall Street ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

King of Kings (1961)

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King of Kings was released in 1961 by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, which promoted it with a poster design similar to their 1959 Ben Hur (with the t...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

The Bible . . . In the Beginning

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Released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1966, The Bible . . . In the Beginning was produced by Dino DeLaurentis, the Italian mogul who made jus...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Who's Afraid of Sadomasochism?

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When Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf was released in summer 1966, its coarse language (several “goddamns,” at least one “Up yours,” and a l...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Executive Action (1973): A warmup for JFK

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Executive Action is a sometimes compelling but often pedestrian film examining the possibility that a cabal of powerful businessmen planned...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Bela Lugosi stalks the night as Dracula

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When Universal’s Dracula premiered at New York’s Roxy Theater in February 1931, the critic for The New York Times wrote that it “can at le...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Flaming Star: Elvis at the crossroads

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After his discharge from the Army, Elvis Presley was at a crossroads. Having served his country with honor, he was suddenly seen as a decent...