Like I warned you all…don’t waste your money. Read this review from the San Francisco Sentinel and save a few bucks. If you want a bang for your money, watch the ORIGINAL “The Women,” (1939) tonight at 8:00 PM EST on TCM . Here are a few funny quotes from the review of “the remake.” “lacks the essential components that catapulted its predecessor into Hollywood Legend.” No kidding??? “Seven decades later, the original...

Here we go again, Hollywood trying to surpass an original masterpiece. The Women, (1939) a bitchy, melodramatic, comedy film starring Norma Shearer, and host of other stars like, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Paulette Goddard, and Joan Fontaine will be hard to match. Although the movie is called “The Women,” it is actually about men… It’s about women and how they fight, adore, adjust, and connect with men. But it is also about...

Before I get into Sarah Palin, let me talk to your about the movie she reminded me of. Politics, (1931) a pre-code movie with Marie Dressler and Polly Moran is a gem and I highly recommend you see it. If you’ve ever seen Dinner at Eight, (1933) Marie Dressler played the very funny role of Carlotta. She appeared in silent films with Charlie Chaplin, and was paired often with Wallace Beery, and with comedian Polly Moran. I love her! I loved...

In celebration of the FBI’s 100th anniversary, TCM will be featuring pre-code movie “G-man,” on Thursday, July 24th with Jimmy Cagney playing the lead G-man who catches crooks. This was a different role for Jimmy. Before this role he played roles on the other side, violent crooks like in “Public Enemy,” (1931). So why were the roles reversed? The Production Code Standards had just been enacted, but the masses still wanted juicy...

Actress and writer Evelyn Keyes, who played Scarlett O’Hara’s younger sister Suellen in “Gone With the Wind” died at age 91 on July 4th. If you don’t really know or remember her it’s because she mainly played “b” parts in movies. Her personal life was more Academy Award winning stuff. She had turbulent marriages to John Huston, band leader Artie Shaw and Charles Vidor. She lived with the flamboyant...

I am back….long and hard June. If you can believe it, I haven’t had the chance to sit my butt down and watch a classic film in weeks. Something I do just to de-stress. But I am back and today I thought about Bette Davis. I have a wallpaper on my computer with her and Leslie Howard in the fabulous movie titled “Of Human Bondage.” My all time favorite movie. Bette Davis would have turned 100 this past April, and in...