Rock Hudson News

Historic on-set photographs taken during the production of the epic drama "Giant" , show the beautiful cast passing the time inbetween takes.

Tonight and tomorrow night TCM is playing films set in Texas, all with an Oscar connection .

I don't know if anyone coached this current crop of actors in Giant , but I do know who taught Rock Hudson how to talk Texan.

Today we have news on a BD edition of the new retelling of Great Expectations , plus announcements of a Rock Hudson/Doris Day classic and the "whatever" favorite Clueless both heading to high-def.... Paramount is readying a 1 May Blu-ray release of Clueless .

Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema is the 1956 classic Written on the Wind, the definitive Douglas Sirk film, starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.

Last season when the Dallas Theater Center presented the world premiere of the new musical Give It Up! , I was one of the very theater critics in the metroplex that gave the production a glowing rave review, overflowing with rapturous comments and praise.

The new musical Giant may take place in the Lone Star State, but the Texas epic revolves around two lovers, Bick and Leslie, and their sprawling romance.

Unlike so many recent musicals, Giant is not a transference of film to stage. Creators Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson returned to Edna Ferber's 1952 novel of the same title .

You didn't take big stands-actors were not to be politicians. Most actors I've known don't have a lot of really terrific ideas about politics and all that.