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Wednesday | PC540

RNC Video Tribute to Michael Monsoor

In the movie, "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" an adaption of a James Michener novel about the Korean War.

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Related Topix: War Movies, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Drama

Wed Aug 27, 2008

Rss feeds - philadelphia weekly online

The Six Pack

Our Town : So what if most of the play's merits are strictly theatrical? Thornton Wilder himself contributed to the screenplay for this leaden adaptation , which softens most of the play's devices.

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Related Topix: Our Town, Family, Drama, Vocal, The Rat Pack, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Ocean's Eleven, Action, Frank Sinatra, Jazz

Fri Aug 01, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Your daily pick of the movies on terrestrial TV

Not that lonesome for Randolph Scott's vengeful lawman, saddled with outlaw sidekicks Pernell Roberts and James Coburn, pretty widow Karen Steele, giggling gunman James Best - and Apaches too.

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Related Topix: Arthur Lowe

Sat Jul 26, 2008

Chicago Reader Online

The Wild Bunch

Sam Peckinpah's notorious western depicted an outlaw gang, made obsolete by encroaching civilization, in its last burst of violent, ambiguous glory.

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Related Topix: Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Jul 23, 2008

Chicago Reader Online

The Wild Bunch

Sam Peckinpah's notorious western depicted an outlaw gang, made obsolete by encroaching civilization, in its last burst of violent, ambiguous glory.

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Related Topix: Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Jul 17, 2008

Star Tribune

Critic's choice

It's been a long time since I've watched 1955's "Picnic" , so I don't remember much of the plot.

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Related Topix: Fitness, Weight Training, Drama, Picnic, Crime TV, Law and Order, Entertainment, Television

Tue Jul 15, 2008

New York Press

The Last One to Know: William Holden, The Noble Cynic

Beginning the batch of three films I'd see this past weekend at Lincoln Center's William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero retrospective with Blake Edwards' S.O.B. was not a good idea.

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Related Topix: Robert Webber, Robert Preston

GreenCine Daily

Fests and events, 7/14.

Twitch 's Todd Brown from Fantasia : " A Colt Is My Passport was apparently considered a fairly minor title by Nikkatsu at the time but it is a sharp, compelling film, one that has stood up to the test of time ...

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Related Topix: War Movies, Drama, The Key

Sun Jul 13, 2008

New York Post

Reel Good

A waitress who becomes delusional after the murder of her two-dollar hustler husband comes to believe she's a nurse on a soap opera.

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Related Topix: Aaron Eckhart, Renee Zellweger, Thursday, Thriller, Crime Movies, Action, Television

Fri Jul 11, 2008

New York Daily News

The Big Picture: Some classic films for a hot summer night

What better way to spend a summer evening than with a little stargazing? Happily, there are enough classics screening around town to form a constellation of famous faces.

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Related Topix: Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Jul 09, 2008

Voice of America

Hollywood Actress Preserves African Legacy of Late Film Star

Hollywood actress Stefanie Powers is keeping alive the African legacy of the late film star William Holden, who established a well known game ranch and sanctuary in Kenya.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Stefanie Powers, Hart to Hart, Crime Movies, Action TV, Adventure, Entertainment, Television

Tue Jul 08, 2008

Bill Doskoch

Some Network dialogue, revisited

Howard: I'm gonna kill myself. Max: Ah shit, Howard. Howard: I'm gonna blow my brains out right on the air, right in the middle of the seven o'clock news.

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Related Topix: Peter Finch

Fri Jul 04, 2008

GreenCine Daily

William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero .

William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero . "[William] Holden shared the screen with such iconic American leading men as John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart , and the star easily held his own alongside the deliberate ...

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Related Topix: Drama, Golden Boy

Thu Jul 03, 2008

New York Press

He Was a Quiet Man: William Holden, the Resigned Macho

While many associate William Holden with his collaborations with Hollywood wunderkind Billy Wilder, I will always associate him with two of his most cynical roles: Pike Bishop in The Wild Bunch and Max ...

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Related Topix: Drama, S.O.B., Comedy Movies, The Lion

Wed Jul 02, 2008

The Village Voice

William Holden: American Idol

Film It's the end of the Civil War, and a ragged Confederate detail faces teeming Union forces.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Our Town, Family, Western, Drama, S.O.B., The Man from Colorado, Picnic, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Jul 01, 2008

New York Sun

William Holden's Unscripted Fall From Grace

Among the smorgasbord of genre-film delights on view in William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero, a 20-film tribute to the actor beginning today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, are five Westerns, a ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Drama, S.O.B., Comedy Movies, Picnic

KPBS-TV San Diego

Local Author Writes Sequel to the Suzie Wong Story

Tom Fudge : If you were going to the movies 48 years ago, you might have spent an afternoon tucked in a dark theater watching "The World of Suzie Wong." It starred William Holden and Nancy Kwan.

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Related Topix: Nancy Kwan

Sun Jun 29, 2008

New York Post

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

'YOU'RE Norma Desmond. Used to be in silent pictures. Used to be big." "I am big.

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Related Topix: Gloria Swanson, Drama, Golden Boy, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Pop/Rock, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Jun 17, 2008

Screenhead

- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead' - Giveaway

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Giveaway! Details are below. When you hear titles like Fail-Safe , 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network , The Verdict , you think of a group of well-made ...

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Related Topix: Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Ned Beatty

Fri Jun 13, 2008

KOTA Television

WW II Bomber Brings Out Memories

PATRICK VANN OF TORRINGTON NEVER HEARD A LOT ABOUT HIS FATHER'S EXPERIENCE AS A BOMBARDIER AND TAIL GUNNER IN A WORLD WAR II B-17, BUT THERE WERE A FEW TIMES GEORGE VANN JR.

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Related Topix: Scottsbluff, NE

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