I just watched Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller, “Psycho.” Being a classic crime “wannabe” sleuth, as was Hitchcock, this movie has always been very interesting to me. I’ve watched it a few times and still am captivated, uh, horrified by it. Virtually everything about this movie is amazing, no other film can compare although many have tried to copy it. Hard to believe that this film was done on a budget. The film was...

Sharon Stone said in an interview with an Arab paper, “I feel at great pain when the spotlight is on the death of 4,000 American soldiers, while 600,000 Iraqi deaths are ignored,” she said. “War is not a movie, it is a tragedy of dead bodies, victims, the disabled, orphans, widows and the displaced.” [source:wibw.com] Maybe Ms Stone should see a re-run of the 2001 Oscars. “From 2001 (Oscar) – Woody Allen...

In the 1941 Academy Award Ceremony President Roosevelt gave the starlets a six minute radio address. The president praised Hollywood for its defense fund raising efforts, and even praised filmmakers for promoting the “American way of life,” and “Truths of our democracy.” This was the first and unlikely to ever happen again. Hollywood was a different place in the 40’s than it is today. Can you imagine Hollywood raising funds for...

The Academy has a cap on how long a winner can take on stage when accepting the Oscar. They have a total of 45 seconds! Give me a break, Hollywood is so full of themselves, do you really think 45 seconds will cut it? I suppose they have to squeeze in all the “me, me,” “you love me,” in that little time. And Hollywood being what it is, I am sure they don’t have problem working that out. All have broken the 45 second cap, but not...

Today’s Oscar fact will make us feel like, well, losers. Yes, losers, they say that the 1940′s generation was the “last great generation.” I have to agree. Harold Russell won best supporting actor in 1947 for his role in “The Best Years of Our Lives,” a heart wrenching, but heart warming story of soldiers which return back home only to fight another battle. You see not only had the war changed them forever, but it...

I just watched an obscure, but pretty good movie with Sidney Poitier. Brother John, (1970) done around the time the civil rights movement was cooling off, but making inroads. Times were changing, but were they really? John Kane (Sidney Poitier) is a mysterious, enigmatic, well travelled man who knows of the past, present, and future of mankind. He was somehow commissioned to leave his home in Alabama at the age of 16 on a mystical journey....