Category Archives: Movies / TV

A Cure for Lonliness

June 19, 2020 – 12:15 pm

FROM THE ARCHIVES OF HOLLYWOOD SQUARES Q. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat? A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness!

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Lilacs

March 5, 2020 – 10:53 am

The director Blake Edwards passed away in late December 2011. His greatest hits were BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, 10, and VICTORIA VICTORIA. Fame fled him in the 80s, but his star rose on Broadway with the success of a musical version of VICTORIA VICTORIA. My cousin was Julie Andrews’ understudy. Tara got to perform the leading […]

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RIP Rutger Hauer – Blade Runner

July 25, 2019 – 8:47 pm

One of the greatest science fiction scene of all time is the ‘TEARS IN THE RAIN’ monologue by Rutger Hauer in BLADE RUNNER. I’ve seen things… seen things you little people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium… I rode on the back decks of a blinker and […]

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The Searchers – Ending Scene

November 25, 2018 – 11:00 am

Without a doubt the ending of John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS is one of the best closing scenes in a western movie or any movies when John Wayne bringing his niece home from years of being a Comanche captive. She is free, but Uncle Ethan is haunted by his ghosts. Perfection. To view this scene, please […]

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Ventemilla

October 7, 2018 – 9:19 am

The 2009 Cannes Film Festival concluded with Austrian director Haneke’s “The White Ribbon” winning the Palme d”Or for yet-another movie about the Nazis. Ten years earlier my old girlfriend Candida Romero asked, “When will that war be over?” Possibly never. ANTICHRIST had been also recognized by the Ecumenical Council as the ‘anti-film’. It was booed […]

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