Claude Rains News

THOMASTON : The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library is presenting a series of films in Room 208 of the Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. The Friday night movies for November have a Bits of Nostalgia theme.

"Even a man who is pure in heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright." So goes the mantra that haunts The Wolf Man , and its reiteration over the course of the film reveals the spirit in which this movie is meant to be viewed.

Springfield lawmakers' reaction to the investigative report in the Chicago Sun-Times detailing how they begged the Blagojevich administration for state jobs reminds us of a scene out of the 1942 classic movie, "Casablanca." Capt.

Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2.4 "Senate Spy" October 19, 2:22 AM Star Wars Examiner Bryan Young The Clone Wars Lucasfilm, Ltd "Senate Spy", the fourth episode of the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is very much a thrilling homage to what may have been one of Alfred Hitchcock's finest films, Notorious.

HG Wells disapproved of this one ... William Harrigan and Claude Rains in The Invisible Man .

Some things were just made for each other: ham and eggs, pizza and beer, television and couches, the Blackberry and the tweet.

"The Beautiful Life" has an odd genesis: A scripted saga about models meant to make a good fit with the network's most successful reality show, "America's Next Top Model" that is itself co-produced by Tyra Banks with Ashton Kutcher.

The fall TV season is imminent, and to get you ready for shows that start a week from tonight, "So You Think You Can Dance" precedes its first fall season with a compilation of some of its best routines from the past five years, including some that have won Emmys for choreography.

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are shown here in a scene from the 1943 film ``Casablanca.'' Unfortunately, the author of this letter quotes Bogie instead of Claude Rains who played Captain Renault.

'Is he fully aware that this bill has been months in both Houses, delayed and delayed, millions will be without food and shelter until its passage, public works to relieve unemployment will be at a standstill, government agencies will be forced to suspend...?' This question was asked during a scene in the Academy Award winning 1939 movie, 'Mr.

'Is he fully aware that this bill has been months in both Houses, delayed and delayed, millions will be without food and shelter until its passage, public works to relieve unemployment will be at a standstill, government agencies will be forced to suspend...?' This question was asked during a scene in the Academy Award winning 1939 movie, 'Mr.

'Is he fully aware that this bill has been months in both Houses, delayed and delayed, millions will be without food and shelter until its passage, public works to relieve unemployment will be at a standstill, government agencies will be forced to suspend...?' This question was asked during a scene in the Academy Award winning 1939 movie, 'Mr.

Watching Andy Coulson and other News of the World apparatchiks denying the Guardian's allegations of widespread phone-hacking to MPstoday was a bit like the scene in Casablanca where Captain Renault closes Rick's bar.

Alfred Hitchcock's high-rent spy romance, in romantic Rio de Janeiro, maintains an atmosphere of crackling sexual tension, with Ingrid Bergman as a loose liver wooed by a suave American agent, and propelled, against both their better wishes, into squeamish wedlock with a Nazi.

"Yankee Doodle Dandy." American movies began lighting screen fireworks even in silent days.

Judging by the number of entries in the old inbox this week, it appears we weren't as ready for the DTV conversion as I opined two weeks ago.

In recent days, members of Congress have been "shocked, shocked," to use the words and cynical meaning of Claude Rains in "Casablanca," to learn that Barack Obama might consider bringing some of "the worst of the worst" from the SuperMax cells of Guantanamo to the mainland United States .

Well, there I was, watching the Fringe season finale, merrily taking notes about how much villain David Robert Jones, wrapped in his head bandages, looked and sounded like Claude Rains in the 1933 movie The Invisible Man , and getting goosebumps when, just before a commercial break, Nina Sharp said, "William Bell is not in this world ." But then my ...

His nose has a head start, but it looks like the rest of Michael Jackson is well on its way to vanishing too -- check out his new look, inspired by Claude Rains in 1933's " The Invisible Man ." It's a thriller, right?! Permalink: http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/22/jacko-the-invisible-man-in-the-mirror/

As Bogie once announced to Claude Rains at the end of "Casablanca," "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." He wasn't talking about the new Warner Archive Collection, the first-ever DVD on demand service introduced by a major U.S. studio, but for film buffs, he might as well have been.