Gregory Peck News

I originally thought that choosing the best on-screen romantic comedy couples for those over 50 would be easy.

In a world where most "hot reads" are past fancies within five years of their release, people still ponder Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, 50 years later.

The movie "2012" just opened and the trailers look amazing. Sure, it's a special effects blowout with a cellophane thin storyline.

Apocalyptic '2012' offers little more than special effects CAROL CLING MORE COLUMNS Carol Cling's Movie Minute REVIEW "2012" 158 minutes PG-13; intense disaster sequences, profanity Grade: C- at multiple locations DEJA VIEW The end of the world as we know it? While "2012" presents a slam-bang view, these titles offer alternative scenarios: "On the ...

"Spellbound" wasn't one of Hitchcock's best films - the treatment of analysis is hokey, the plot is at once too complicated and too cleanly resolved, the violins swell cloyingly every time the bespectacled psychiatrist, Ingrid Bergman, claps eyes on handsome headcase Gregory Peck.

Her childhood as Baby June, vaudeville headliner, was immortalized on Broadway in the 1959 musical "Gypsy", in which both June Havoc and her older sister--who would become Gypsy Rose Lee--were driven by their.... Her childhood as Baby June, vaudeville headliner, was immortalized on Broadway in the 1959 musical "Gypsy", in which both June Havoc and ...

There will again be a pause in my blog as I go on another unpaid furlough next week.

In 2003, the American Film Institute ranked Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th Century.

The monochrome world of Hitchcock's Spellbound has been revisited in a new artistic medium - layers of brown parcel tape stuck on to a 4ft-high sheet of clear plastic through which light is shone.

For more than a month, valley readers participating in The Big Read have been discussing, examining, and experiencing in various forms "To Kill a Mockingbird." In the process, Harper Lee's classic 1960 story has inspired conversation and reflections on racism and justice, childhood and innocence, tolerance and community, and the virtues and flaws ...

Some single parents love a great movie marathon fright night, as if some of our nightmare scenarios have not provided enough adrenalized fear.

The second world war supreme allied commander was a fascinating character. This 1977 biopic signally fails to live up to his reputation The future's so bright a Gregory Peck in MacArthur.

Gregory Peck, left, portrays Atticus Finch and Brock Peters portrays Tom Robinson in the 1962 Universal film release "To Kill A Mockingbird." The film, directed by Robert Mulligan, will be shown today at 10 a.m. at the Temple Theatre, 2320 Eighth St., for students in grades 9-12, and again for the general public at 7 p.m. Tonight's admission is $5 ...

Rosa Lee Merz has taken the concept of "One Book, One Community" to heart. She's read portions of the classic novel chosen for the program - Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" - all over Stillwater, carrying the book with her as she went about daily tasks.

But you wouldn't mistake her for Gregory Peck. Or would you? The actress, best known for her role as Mayella Ewell, the horrid, white trash fabulist whose bogus rape accusation against a black man forms the crux of the movie To Kill a Mockingbird , died this month at age 74.

Bronte's gothic tale of moors madness gets the William Wyler treatment in this classic movie version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliffe.

A commercial and critical hit in its day, 1945a s Spellbound has seen its standing slip in the ensuing decades, as it's never mentioned on any list of Alfred Hitchcock's best works.

Dir. Elia Kazan . Gregory Peck poses as a Jew to do a magazine piece on anti-Semitism and finds there's quite a bit of it out there in Kazan's screen version of Laura Hobson 's novel.

Every Southern town has an Atticus Finch, or needs one. Like the lawyer Gregory Peck played in "To Kill a Mockingbird," he's the first to stand when someone enters the room, man or woman.

WE live in an age where romance is sold by the metre: just another commodity for wedding planners, hotels, resorts, musicians, perfumeries, florists, frock designers, shoe shops and purveyors of Valentine's Day ephemera.