Java is a new LAMB

Java has become one of the sheeple over at LAMB - the Large Association of Movie Blogs.  Hooray! I guess I should have some kind of party...

Saturday, July 31, 2010
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The Art of Manliness - Frank Sinatra

Mention Frank Sinatra and what comes to mind? His boy-ish, public persona in the 1940s? His quest for mature roles in the 1950s? Sinatra the...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Marge Champion's Interview with the Archive of American Television

A few years ago,  the Archive of American Television   interviewed Marge Champion , legendary dancer/choreographer of film, stage and TV. A...

Monday, July 26, 2010
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Spotlight Australia: World's First Dramatic Film

This blog entry has been re-printed with permission from the Spotlight Series , a world trivia blog which highlights one continent per pos...

Thursday, July 22, 2010
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Past & Present: The Wizard of Oz (1939) & The Wiz (1978) - Part 2 of 2

We continue comparing The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Wiz (1978), which are film adaptations of L. Frank Baum 's story of a little girl ...

Sunday, July 18, 2010
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Past & Present: The Wizard of Oz (1939) & The Wiz (1978) - Part 1 of 2

There have been (and continue to be ) multiple film versions of L. Frank Baum 's story of a little girl named Dorothy who gets lost in ...

Saturday, July 17, 2010
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Perfume Movies & Invitation (1952)

Perfume Movies (a subgenre of “women‘s pictures") are tear-jerking soap operas involving an angst-ridden woman who must overcome impro...

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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Jane Eyre (1934) (Update: Watch It Online)

Charlotte Bront ë ’s dark and brooding story of an abused orphan who becomes the self-possessed governess to a little girl in a strange fa...

Thursday, July 08, 2010
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Happy Independence Day

Happy Independence Day! :) Semper Libertas 

Sunday, July 04, 2010
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Film Fashion: Eve in All About Eve (1950)

“Eve, evil. Little Miss Evil…. She is a louse.” - Margo Channing Eve Harrington ( Anne Baxter ) is the cruel and doggedly ambitious title ...

Saturday, July 03, 2010
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