Nov 16, 2009 | Filmexperience.blogspot.com
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously.
On Tonight: Wanda Stand-Up, Lots of Football: Roger Catlin | TV Eye
Wanda Sykes says she got in trouble about what she said at the White House Correspondents Dinner in May; what nobody seems to realize she says in her new comedy special, "Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me" is that she was holding back.
TV Critic's picks for Saturday: A versatile career
Paul Muni is the featured actor in a TCM mini movie marathon that includes the 1932 movie "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" , the 1939 movie "Juarez" and two 1935 films, "Dr. Socrates" and "The Story of Louis Pasteur" . History re-creation The History Channel series "What Went Down" examines two major events in U.S. history: "Pearl Harbor" ...
Army Archerd gave showbiz class
HERE IS A TRIBUTE I gave to Army Archerd a few years ago and I think the tone of it, still stands -- this is, my admiration and hero worship of a fabulous reporter... Back in the day when Army was still with us, I wise-cracked as follows: I knew Army Archerd when he was in the Navy.
The Beast of the City plays out as an above-average crime picture made for MGM where the good guys and the heroes are, finally, one and the same.
Hollywood continues to have a thing for gangster films, so why not check out a movie made when the gunmen were actually ruling the streets? Pritchard Park is hosting a screening of 'Scarface' at 8 tonight.
Forget Brian De Palma's remake; Howard Hawks' original Scarface from 1932 is the goods as far as classic gangster flicks are concerned.
SCARFACE The original Scarface was Paul Muni's Tony Camonte, in this Howard Hawks-directed gangster masterpiece that was so violent that the Hays Office, which governed motion pictures, demanded a new ending and a new subtitle .
Johnny Depp aims to reinvigorate the gangster-movie genre with "Public Enemies." In director Michael Mann's "Public Enemies," which opens Wednesday, Johnny Depp's John Dillinger says he likes baseball and fast cars.
Long before the modern, cosmopolitan and actual Chinese locales such as San Francisco's Chinatown, there was China City, a kitschy theme park that was an inspiration for Lisa See's fiction.
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