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Seattle's Hollywood 'Head Hunter'
For Northwest history geeks , the most anticipated film event of the season is a rare chance to see a rare film, the just-restored 1914 silent, In the Land of the Head Hunters by Seattle's photographic master ...
This and That and More of the Same
The new manager of the Million Dollar Theatre, Robert Voskanian, a tall and skeletal Armenian immigrant has dabbled in moviemaking and spent years running two big downtown discos before taking on the theater's ...
When the Masque had its moment
Brendan Mullen wandered into a rundown Art Deco building off Hollywood Boulevard in the spring of 1977 looking to rent a room.
Indiana Jones hopes to grab summer movie gold
He's in bookstores, where two Asheville writers have penned an Indy handbook. He's in theaters from Franklin to Marion, as "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" stakes its claim to being the ...
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him”
The Ten Commandments spoken by God at Mount Sinai to the Israelites after being in Egypt 430 years, without question, represents one of the most spectacular and momentous events in history. via Message Magazine
Dance professor choreographs last hurrah
“At this point, I'm waiting to see how and where I'm guided”
Issue date: 5/7/08 Section: Life Diane Woodward After 10 years of teaching Citrus dance students to plie, chasse and much more, dance professor Diane Woodward plans to take her final bow in June. via The Clarion
Chillin' with Oz, Lassie and Scarlett
“It has that disturbing quality of producing its own oxygen, so you can't put it out with water. If properly stored and handled, then it's no more dangerous that any other kind of hazardous substance, like gasoline.”
While Scarlett O'Hara stayed cool at home, Dorothy Gale took a year out to go skipping down a digital yellow brick road in a Hollywood film lab. via Daily Herald
Cecil B. DeMille and the secrets of history
The Lee Library at Brigham Young University looks a lot like I.M. Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre. via Palm Beach Post
“Charlton Heston is an axiom of the cinema.”
Charlton Heston's career as a commanding male lead provided a one-person Hollywood trek through the pages of world history and a forceful, conservative vision of a world in which America always wins. via Hollywood
Writers on the Range: Guns, guts and cold dead fingers
About a decade ago, while waiting at the town stoplight, I read the bumper stickers on the Jeep Cherokee in front of me. via The Summit County Journal
Lima Public Library Book Reviews
The Greatest Gift: the Courageous Life and Death of Sister Dorothy Stang by Binka Le Breton An inspirational portrait of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old nun, born and raised in Ohio, who went to Brazil as a ... via Lima News
“The West wasn't won with a registered gun”
About a decade ago, while waiting at the town stoplight, I read the bumper stickers on the Jeep Cherokee in front of me. via High Country News
American actor original name John Charlton Carter Main born Oct. 4, 1924, Evanston, Ill., U.S. died April 5, 2008, Beverly Hills, Calif. via Encyclopaedia Britannica
'Cecil B. DeMille' by Simon Louvish
Cecil B. DeMille A Life in Art Simon Louvish Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's: 528 pp., $27.95 HE was the Titan of Tosh, the High Priest of Humbug, the Prince of Piety, Patriotism and Pornography -- of the ... via Los Angeles Times
All opinions expresses herein are those of Larry and not necessarily those of the management, staff, families or pets of SF Signal. via SF Signal
If, as the Passover Haggadah says, every generation is enjoined to see itself as having left Egypt, that was definitely a lot harder to do before 1956 - for the generations who had not yet seen Cecil B. ... via Haaretz Daily News
Add these recipes to your Passover meal I am really out of my league this week. Really. Out of my league. via Press-Citizen
Charlton Heston - an appreciation
Charlton Heston in 'Planet of the Apes.' Click image to see more photos. Charlton Heston 's death Saturday at age 84 brought reminders of the actor's non- Hollywood headlines, specifically his railing against ... via NY Daily News
Heston was wholly taken with Moses role
“I dare say that more has been written about Moses than about any other man in history”
So what did the man who played Moses have to say about the biblical Moses? The answer came this week in The Daily Mirror , The Times' blog about the paper's coverage of the past. via Chicago Tribune
“From my cold, dead hands, Mr. Gore!”
"Some people make headlines while others make history." - Philip Elmer-DeWitt, American Writer and Editor There are few of the old stars left in Hollywood, men who loved their country enough to show her the ... via The Post Chronicle