Eleanor and Frank Perry
Eleanor and Frank Perry’s last movie together was their best, a wonderful adaptation of Sue Kaufman’s “Diary of a Mad Housewife”.
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Category: Essays
Fassbinder Revisited: A Cinematic Journey
“Fassbinder Revisited: A Cinematic Journey” reveals three masterworks of cinema: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and Veronika Voss. And two for television: The Stationmaster’s Wife (also known as Bolweiser) and the 14-episode Berlin Alexanderplatz.
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Eight Legendary Foreign Actresses Who Did Not Make It In Hollywood.
They were the darlings of the art house circuit. Their work in a language other than English is some of the greatest ever captured on film. But Hollywood…
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500 Actors Who Have Never Been Nominated for an Oscar
Marilyn Monroe was never nominated for an Oscar. Neither was Kim Novak or Edward G. Robinson. Or Jean-Louis Trintignant.. Here are 500 actors who have never been nominated!
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The Psychology of California’s Travel Corridors.
California’s three great intercity corridors—Los Angeles to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Las Vegas, and Los Angeles to San Diego—are often discussed in terms of engineering, infrastructure, or political will. But the deeper truth is psychological. Each corridor has a dominant identity, a set of expectations and habits that shape how people choose to move through it. These identities are remarkably stable, and they explain why some megaprojects thrive while others stall.
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Glenn Close Returns in Wake Up Dead Man (2025) (B)
Like Mrs. Danvers, Delacroix materializes rather than enters; her first appearance, looming behind Josh O’Connor’s Father Duplenticy (Johnson has a Dickensian flair for surnames), is a jolt for the ages—I shat my pants!
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Oppenheimer – A Feast of Nobel Prize Winners (2023)
“Oppenheimer” has more Nobel Prize-winning characters than any other movie in Hollywood history. Who are the Actors who play them (and the spy Klaus Fuchs)?
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The Dreamlanders
The Dreamlanders are a group of stock players, directed by John Waters, who have appeared in his films since their humble beginnings. Most of the original bunch live /lived in the Baltimore area.
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Jesse Plemons Extraordinary Weight Loss: Is it Ozempic?
Jesse Plemons is almost unrecognizable. The man sharing the screen with Emma Stone in Bugonia bears little resemblance to the one who stood opposite Elizabeth Olsen in Love and Death just a couple of years ago. The transformation is so dramatic that the reflexive assumption is obvious: Ozempic — or one of its many GLP‑1 cousins — must be involved.
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