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Walter Winchell

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    Jan 20, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. 'Sweet Smell of Success' has classic aroma

    Louis B. Mayer warned anyone who made a movie at MGM: "Be smart, but never show it."
    Louis B. Mayer warned anyone who made a movie at MGM: "Be smart, but never show it." The still-subversive thrill of "Sweet Smell of Success" — an independent production released through United Artists — is that it's unabashedly smart in every...

    Tags: Movies, Drama (genre), Clifford Odets, Louis B. Mayer, MGM Inc.

    2. Apr 17, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. Justice, on screen and off

    Academy Award-winning film director Sidney Lumet, who passed away April 9 at age 86, is remembered for classics such as "Twelve Angry Men," the courtroom drama that challenged racial prejudice and which Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has cited as a...

    Tags: Music Theater, Movies, Drama (genre), Sidney Lumet, Manhattan (New York City)

    3. May 10, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  3. USS North Carolina battleship author looked for ghosts, found true heroes

    Sun Journal, New Bern, N.C.
    Writer Cindy Ramsey went looking for ghost stories about the state's famous battleship, the USS North Carolina. Attending a reunion of World War II's most decorated ship, she found something more profound -- the crewmen. The project on battleship...

    Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Sociology, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Fiction, Military Equipment

    4. Jul 6, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Onetime flop now an Andy Griffith classic

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But when the right actor finds the path straight into a corrupt soul on fire, a strange kind of joy erupts on screen — a sense of true discovery and excitement.
    Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But when the right actor finds the path straight into a corrupt soul on fire, a strange kind of joy erupts on screen — a sense of true discovery and excitement. This is what Andy Griffith brought to his film...

    Tags: The Andy Griffith Show (tv program), Celebrities, Andy Griffith, Radio, Arthur Godfrey

    5. Sep 28, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  5. Tom Cruise -- will he have to choose between religion and career?

    Liz Smith
    "It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love ... drunk ... or running for office!" says Shirley MacLaine. And James Wood tells us this: "Hug your mother often and tell her how much you love her. ... Cherish the dead you once...

    Tags: John Benjamin Hickey, Awards and Prizes, Alan Cumming, Lee Child, Valentino

    6. Jul 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Tony Martin dies at 98; singer-actor in Hollywood musicals

    Tony Martin, one of the last of the big-name singer-actors from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, has died. He was 98.
    Tony Martin, one of the last of the big-name singer-actors from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, has died. He was 98. Martin, who toured for years with his wife, dancer-actress Cyd Charisse, died of natural causes Friday at his home in Los Angeles,...

    Tags: Alice Faye, Movies, Music, Fred Astaire, The New York Times

    7. Jul 24, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  7. Kirk Douglas -- no matter what he says (to me) he is 'Spartacus'!

    Liz Smith
    "DEAR LIZ, I am NOT Spartacus! I'm your friend. Many pleasant memories. With affection, Kirk." That is what is inscribed on the opened page of Kirk Douglas' hugely entertaining new book, "I Am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist." Now, even...

    Tags: Peter Ustinov, George Clooney, Movies, Hedda Hopper, Gene Tierney

    8. Nov 13, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  8. 'The Artist': Give it a try, you'll love the movie, cast promises

    24 Frames
    In this video clip from the Envelope Screening Series Q&A with Times film critic Kenneth Turan and "The Artist's" Jean Dujardin, John Goodman and Berenice Bejo, the actors discuss the warm reception the silent movie has so far received....
    9. May 13, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Nikki Finke: Has the tough talking cop who policed Hollywood gone soft?

    The Big Picture
    Hollywood's queen of mean, Nikki Finke, doesn't mince words -- just ask Howard Gantman, corporate communications chief for the Motion Picture Assn. of America. He recently tried to voice, perfectly civilly, some complaints about a piece that Finke’s...
    10. Sep 30, 2010 | Orlando Sentinel

  10. Tony Curtis, 1925-2010

    Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
    Oscar nominee Tony Curtis, a dapper Hollywood leading man of the 50s and 60s, TV star (“The Persuaders”) and the fellow who would tell you, in unguarded moments, how awful Marilyn Monroe was to work with, has die of cardiac arrest in his Las...
    11. Sep 30, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Tony Curtis: 'You're dead, son. Get yourself buried.'

    The Big Picture
    The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river and Tony Curtis is dead at 85. No one is going to ever say he was a great actor, especially based on the dreck he did in the last......
    12. Dec 16, 2010 | Zap2It

  12. What did you make of Larry King's last CNN show?

    Z on TV
    I watched Larry King's last show. But I am going to hold off on my thoughts. I have very mixed feelings about the way CNN has handled the end of King's run. And I am more interested in what you think.I did a Thursday morning radio piece on King's farewell...
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