Archive for the 'Movies' Category
I got tangled up in the internet last Saturday, it took quite a bit of web browsing before I got free. Three new discoveries in particular kept me on the net: It’s great to find that more great MP3 Blogs appear every month. Dedicated record collectors are using the blog format to share forgotten vinyl [...]
Comedian Lou Costello was born 100 years ago today. Lou’s hometown of Paterson, New Jersey held a birthday bash for him over this last weekend. Lou’s future partner, Bud Abbott, was already 10 and 1/2 years old in 1906. They didn’t meet until 1931. It’s great to witness that Abbott & Costello‘s celebrity is growing [...]
I was saddened to hear of Don Knotts passing last Friday. At a young age I was particularly fond of his spooky comedy “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.” That film has an incredibly simple premise, but Knott’s performance really carried the concept through. A few years later, “The New Scooby Doo Movies” played homage to [...]
I spent part of the Thanksgiving weekend watching a marathon of movie trailers with family members. This lead to a discussion of why certain types of films aren’t produced anymore, and how the "event" experience we had a couple of decades ago in movie theaters is also gone. One event I remember was the Kiddie [...]
One of the articles in the Internet Movie Database‘s news sections talked about the funeral for Moustapha Akkad, killed in the November 9 terrorist bombing in Jordan. The article summarized his career mainly for his role as producer of the Halloween series. But for me a brief look at his imdb.com page alerted me to [...]
