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What's not to like about a good old-fashioned Hollywood cat fight? Especially when its between inconveniently pregnant career woman of mature years with a butch haircut "Sandra," and softly coiffed Maryland horse farmer of pap entitlement, "Maggie?" My initial viewing of the film about 25 years ago, pre -bastard consciousness, put me squarely on ...

THE POWER AND THE PRIZE is a film about corporate warfare mixed with romance, in the tradition of other mid-'50s business-themed films such as EXECUTIVE SUITE and WOMAN'S WORLD .

Sept. 8, 2009 Wheeling's Capitol Music Hall Reopening Sept 23, and Sept 25 Built, Opened Same Year as Keith Albee By Tony Rutherford Huntingtonnews.net Entertainment Editor Separated by hundreds of miles but joined by their proximity to the Ohio River and calling the Mountain State their home, the Capitol Theatre, Wheeling, WV, and the Keith Albee ...

Clark Gable and director Victor Fleming - who would reunite a few years later for a little drama called "Gone With the Wind" - collaborated on this soapy 1932 drama about an American rubber plantation owner in Indochina who finds himself swept up in a triangle with a floozy from Saigon and the beautiful wife of a visiting engineer.

Clark Gable and director Victor Fleming - who would reunite a few years later for a little drama called "Gone With the Wind" - collaborated on this soapy 1932 drama about an American rubber plantation owner in Indochina who finds himself swept up in a triangle with a floozy from Saigon and the beautiful wife of a visiting engineer.

Here is this week's list of the editor's choice of things to do: FRIDAY, AUG. 7, 2009 Eat and be entertained: A variety of appetizers, wine sampling and live entertainment from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Mercato, 9118 Strada Place, Naples.

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild voted to declare its opposition to the planned closure of an historic motion picture home where many well-known actors have spent their last days.

The Maltese Falcon NR 100 minutes Directed by John Huston Written by John Huston Starring Humphrey Bogart Mary Astor Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Review by Reel American Hero For years when you think of all time actors that personify Hollywood cool, the name of Humphrey Bogart comes up on the short list.

"The stuff dreams are made of," mutters sleuth-for-hire Sam Spade, referencing the titular black statue that's had everyone in a tizzy.

"He had a long bony jaw," Gores writes, "a flexible mouth, a jutting chin... He was six feet tall with broad, steeply sloping shoulders." Yet that non-Bogart figure is exactly true to the original Spade, as created by Dashiell Hammett.

Self-Styled Siren pays tribute to one of classic Hollywood's greatest odd couples , Sydney Greenstreet, he of the Edmund Wilson helium-filled, patrician girth, and Peter Lorre.