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Looking back from a distance of 60 years, Hoagy Carmichael‘s 1961 appearance on The Flintstones was a strange affair. The result was the clip seen here. The episode is titled “The Hit Song Writers” ...

Director Richard Linklater has a new film at Cannes: Nouvelle Vague. It’s about the making of Breathless, the 1960 classic of the French New Wave. (Until just now, I didn’t know that nouvelle vague is ...

Actor Chad Everett has died at age 76. Lung cancer was the cause, according to The Los Angeles Times. Boy, the music in those old dramas. Any show that started running in 1969 had one foot in the Old ...

The Little, Brown Book Group has announced the publication date of the next J.K. Rowling novel. The tale takes place in an English village called Pagford. The people who live there are called Paggles, ...

Hailee Steinfeld, age 14, will surely be nominated for an Oscar tomorrow for True Grit, because she deserves it and because the Academy loves to nominate plucky youngsters. Yes, the Academy loves ...

Tina Louise — who played movie star Ginger Grant — is the last surviving member of the cast of Gilligan’s Island. That became true when Dawn Wells (“Mary Ann”) died on December 30, 2020. All the ...

Employees at a gas station in Los Angeles watch President Jimmy Carter giving his energy speech over national television on July 15, 1979 (AP file photo) Nearly 40 years ago, on July 15, 1979, ...

Here’s a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of the U.S. Army during World War II. Hawaiian or not, it got the job done: Gordon killed ...

Will anyone ever be taller than Robert Wadlow? That’s where modern medicine comes in. Today, pituitary surgery is not such a big deal. (They go in through your nose!) Surgery may not even be needed: ...

Here’s a great little video from Variety in which actress Emily Blunt is handed cards with lines from some of her past roles and tries to remember the movies. It’s fun! She’s done 52 different ...

Ski champion Mikaela Shiffrin has spoken openly and bravely about her struggles with the 2020 death of her father, Jeff Shiffrin. Reports and interviews have noted that Mikaela “couldn’t even get out ...