Category: Movies
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Sutton Foster and “Tootsie”
“It’s like Tootsie but with age.” This is Sutton Foster’s explanation of her new television series in which she plays a 40-year-old mother “disguising” herself as a 26-year-old in order to find work. There is so much wrong with her comparison. Granted, I haven’t seen her series as it hasn’t aired yet, but Tootsie was not…
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Haunted by “The Shining” and Scooby Doo
After finishing Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s newest novel which checks in on Danny Torrance 30 years after the horrors at The Overlook Hotel, I decided to go back and re-read The Shining. I saw Kubrick’s film adaptation of The Shining for the first time when I was five years old, the same age as Danny Torrance. Wisest choice…
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Mind voting for me for Christmas… today?
Hello readers and friends. Optimum is running a Caption Contest for the upcoming Christmas movie “Christmas with Tucker”. If you click here, you can vote for my caption on Facebook (as seen below). Just “like” the page and then click the blue [VOTE] button. The contest ends tonight so every vote counts! Thanks for your…
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Parker Posey, Party Girl and a Night of 90s (thanks to Style of Mind)
On January 14th I got to enjoy sitting down in front of (well, a few rows away but still, in front of) Parker Posey at the 92Y in Tribeca, as she shared her tale of filming Party Girl with a group of fans. I won’t go on and on about the event, because Style of…
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The Best Little Author in Texas Has Passed; Larry L. King at 83
Larry L. King, the man whose article in Playboy about the flamboyant campaign to shut down a Texas brothel inspired the Tony Award-nominated musical, and movie starring Dolly Parton, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas died Thursday at the age of 83. The Chicken Ranch had, in one form or another, been in operation for 129…
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Happy 101st Birthday Lucille Ball!
Today would have been Lucille Ball‘s 101st birthday. My mom and I used to relish watching reruns of Lucy together and would reenact our favorite moments with each other. From “Vitameatavegamin” to her and Ethel’s job at the chocolate factory to “Slowly I Turned,” we would take turns playing Lucy in her various escapades. One…
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Jim Henson Company Says No Thanks to Chik-fil-A’s Anti-Gay Stance
Kudos to Lisa Henson and the Jim Henson Company for taking a stand against bigotry. On Friday, they posted the following statement on their Facebook page. “The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them…
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PHOTO: Just arrived in the mail! Thanks @deep_dish! #evita #blu-ray
from Instagram: Just arrived in the mail! Thanks @deep_dish! #evita #blu-ray http://instagr.am/p/McApnWQaHf/
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Theme Songs that Terrified Me as a Chld
I’ve been busier than usual lately so I haven’t posted much, short of some Instagram moments here and there but I was listening to a podcast this morning and one of the panelists mentioned the theme to Unsolved Mysteries and it reminded me that, while I loved the show, the song itself terrified me! Something…
Tommy Karr 