Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Chuck Norris: Getting a Kick Out of Martial Arts

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The passing last week of martial-artist-turned-actor Chuck Norris (1940-2026) has sent me down Memory Lane. Looking at his long filmography,...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Riding the Rails with “Train Dreams”

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Among the ten movies nominated by the Academy for Best Picture, there were a few that were unfamiliar to me. To be honest, I hadn’t kept up ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The Angst and the Ecstasy of Catherine O’Hara

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Life, as we know, is not always fair. Right now, when the world seems to be becoming a more and more daunting place, it doesn’t seem fair th...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Hollywood History the Orton Way

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I know a very nice man of my generation named Richard Orton. He lives not far from me in Santa Monica, and local history is his passion. He’...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Jessie Buckley and the Luck of the Irish

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Well, it’s all over now but the shouting. The 98 th annual Academy Awards ceremony is in the books, and most viewers (me included) are rath...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Murmurs from the Heart: Agnès Varda in California

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I fell hard for the late French filmmaker Agnès Varda when I saw her onscreen in her Oscar-nominated Faces Places (originally Visages Villag...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Harold and Bud: The Pre-Graduate

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It’s hard for me to think of Bud Cort as old. When playing a title character in 1971’s Harold and Maude , he was in his early twenties, but ...
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