Geraldine Chaplin
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944) is a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-nominated actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.
Personal life
Geraldine Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California, the first child of actor/director Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill (daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill and author Agnes Boulton). Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is an American actor. He is widely known for his portrayals of characters such as Emmett “Doc” Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and Reverend Jim Ignatowski on television’s Taxi. He also starred in the short-lived television series Deadly Games, where he played Jackal, a videogame villain brought to life. Read the rest of this entry »
William Holden
William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American film actor. One of the top stars of the 1950s, he was named one of the “Top 10 stars of the year” six times (1954-1958, 1961) and appeared on the American Film Institute’s AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Stars list as #25.
Early life and [...]
Jack Haley
John Joseph “Jack” Haley, Jr. (August 10, 1898 – June 6, 1979) was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. He also portrayed farmworker Hickory, who appeared in the Kansas sequences, in the film.
Biography
Career: Haley starred in vaudeville as a song-and-dance [...]
Natalie Wood
This article is about the actress. For the candidate on UK reality TV show, see List of The Apprentice candidates (UK)#Natalie Wood.Natalie Wood (born Natalia Zacharenko; Cyrillic: July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress.
Following her film debut in 1943, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as Miracle on [...]
Robert Duvall
I’m better than Olivier.
— Robert Duvall
QUITE possibly the most versatile American actor in the history of cinema, Robert Duvall is also probably among the least likely to get mobbed at a mall. Unlike many of his peers, the chameleonic actor has demonstrated time and again the ability to utterly inhabit the characters he plays, eliminating [...]
Neil Young
Ain’t singin’ for Pepsi/ Ain’t singin’ for Coke/ Don’t sing for nobody/ Makes me look like a joke/ This note’s for you.
— Neil Young
IN the course of his over-thirty-year career as a recording artist, Neil Young has experienced as many extreme low points of critical and commercial success as he has [...]
Nixon is no JFK
John Hartl
Director–Oliver Stone
Starring -Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen
No one who lived through the 1950s or the Vietnam/Watergate era can fail to be fascinated by what Oliver Stone has done with the American political figure who outlived most of his rivals and defined that period.But if you were born after President Nixon resigned 21 years ago, [...]
Here’s Pie in Your Face
New Line
Director–Bryan Gordon
Starring Christine Lahti, John Goodman
Comedy Romance 94 min
It looks good on paper: traffic jams on California’s highways and byways as a metaphor for love and relationships. But Pie in the Sky, the first full length feature from Academy Award Short winner Byran Gordon, tries so hard to shove itself into the romantic-comedy formula [...]
A Funny and Compassionate ‘Adventure’
Actor Adrian Grenier, who plays the title character in The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, has the tousled hair, pouty lips and sulking/cute countenance that teen idolhood is built on, and those qualities stand him in very good stead in this film. Sebastian Cole is a teenaged boy living in a small, upstate New York town [...]
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