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Thursday | RecordNET

No 'Picnic' for critics

Roger Ebert called it "clunky and awkward." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said "everything that made it hot stuff in 1955 seems dated today." The contemporary film critics aren't likely to take in "Picnic" when Friends of the Fox bring the movie to the Bob Hope Theatre on Friday as part of its classic cinema series.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Picnic, Kansas

Sat Jun 27, 2009

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

Tonight's Movie: Submarine Command

Lt. Commander Ken White spends the post-WWII years toiling in a dull desk job, increasingly haunted by an incident that happened on the Tiger Shark, a submarine under his command, on the last day of the war.

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Related Topix: Nancy Olson, Don Taylor, US Military, US Navy, US News

Thu Jun 04, 2009

Boston Globe

Pass the bloody marys

"The Miracle at Morgan Creek" In Preston Sturges's high-energy screwball, a nice small-town girl - the awesomely named Trudy Kockenlocker - wakes up after a farewell dance for soldiers and finds herself married and pregnant.

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Related Topix: Eddie Bracken, Film Noir, Drama Movies, Sunset Blvd., Goldfinger, Thriller, Action Movies, Adventure, Movies, Entertainment

Fri May 29, 2009

Spiked

Why we need a Free Range Kidsa

Over the long Memorial Day weekend, I let my sons stay up past their bedtime to watch movies.

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Related Topix: Humphrey Bogart, Tom Hanks, Family, Kids, Parenting

Fri May 08, 2009

New York Times

The Disease That Steals Your Self

The 10 warning signs listed online by the Alzheimer's Association include not recognizing oneself in the mirror and giving large amounts of money to telemarketers.

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Related Topix: Alzheimer's, Health, Drama Movies, Picnic, Comedy Movies, Born Yesterday, Judy Holliday, Arts, Television

Fri May 01, 2009

DVD Dungeon

The Towering Inferno Blazes Up to Blu-ray on July 14th

You can relive a 1974 classic in 1080p this July. The Towering Inferno will be released on Blu-ray on July 14.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Action Movies, Thriller, The Towering Inferno, Paul Newman, Indie, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway

Effingham Herald

Something to watch

I decided it was time to hit the movie theatre to catch some fluff for a couple of hours.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Born Yesterday, Dave

Sat Apr 18, 2009

FindingDulcinea

Happy Birthday, William Holden, Film Star and Hollywood a oeGolden Boya

Long before Tom Hanks ruled romantic comedies, or Brad Pitt dazzled audiences with his baby face, William Holden was the "Golden Boy" of Hollywood.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Golden Boy, Picnic, S.O.B., Comedy Movies, Born Yesterday, Hollywood, Short, Musical Movies

Sun Apr 05, 2009

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

Tonight's Movie: Union Station

UNION STATION is a solidly made, entertaining suspense film about an observant secretary who teams with the police to solve a kidnapping.

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Related Topix: Nancy Olson, Allene Roberts

Sun Mar 22, 2009

Cincinnati CityBeat

Onstage: Stalag 17

Stalag 17 is a 1951 play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trczinski about World War II prisoners of war.

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Related Topix: Cincinnati, OH, Arts, Theater

Sun Mar 15, 2009

Athens Banner-Herald

Expert says 'Sunset Blvd.' a good example of movie style

While there are hundreds of excellent examples of film noir in the American movie canon, there are few that are as memorable as Billy Wilder's 1950 masterpiece "Sunset Blvd." starring William Holden as a ...

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Related Topix: Film Noir, Drama, Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Short, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Gloria Swanson

Sat Mar 14, 2009

Canyon News

Patricia Crowley Plans To Write Tell All

If she were a category on Jeopardy, the answer would be: She's had roles opposite Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Ginger Rogers and William Holden.

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Related Topix: Ginger Rogers, Banking, Financial Services, Broadway Financial, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Soap Opera, Comedy, Port Charles

Fri Mar 13, 2009

Seattle Weekly

The Wild Bunch

Sam Peckinpah's famously bloody, balletic, slo-mo 1969 Western has more to do with the Vietnam era than frontier days-probably not a bad reason for screening it now.

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Related Topix: Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Ernest Borgnine, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Mar 10, 2009

The Huffington Post

Stu Kreisman: Hitting Back The Hardest

There's a line in one of my favorite movies, Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17" which might explain the howls of protest from the right.

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Fri Mar 06, 2009

NorthJersey.com

TV's best bets for March 6

William Holden stars as handsome drifter Hal Carter, who arrives in the hometown of his old college friend Alan on the day of the big local picnic to hit him up for a job.

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Related Topix: Drama, Picnic, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell, Rosalind Russell, Susan Strasberg, Entertainment, Television

Sun Feb 22, 2009

DigitallyOBSESSED.com

The World of Suzie Wong

Back in 1960, the world of Suzie Wong may have seemed exotic, titillating, even a little shocking, but global awareness and a severe loosening of social mores in the intervening 44 years has turned Richard ...

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Fri Feb 20, 2009

Cleveland.com

From the gritty to the glitzy on Sunset Boulevard

"Sunset Boulevard" is the name of a classic movie that brilliantly addresses the value of yesterday and today, and life and death in Hollywood.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA), Film Noir, Drama, Sunset Blvd., Brentwood (Los Angeles, CA)

Sat Feb 14, 2009

The War on Guns

Give that Man a Kewpie Doll

The gathering place for a merry band of Three Percenters. Saturday, February 14, 2009 Who said it? "Give that man a kewpie doll!" - William Holden as Sgt.

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Related Topix: Guns

Fri Feb 13, 2009

Star Tribune

Critic's picks

The PBS special "Hitman: David Foster & Friends" is a tribute to the multi-Grammy-winning songwriter/producer featuring performances with Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Michael Buble and many others.

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Related Topix: Classical, Andrea Bocelli, Jennifer Jones, Entertainment, Television

Wed Feb 11, 2009

Play Journal

Edmonds/Beale: mad as hell, unable to take it anymore

It was one of my great maturing moments as a young man: the first time I sat down and watched Lumet and Chayefsky's Network .

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