Mildred Pierce News

Nothing too complicated about It's Complicated - it's just as much an entertainment formula as the Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel , the main difference being that it's aimed at that audience's grandparents.

Chris Jaffe is smarter than ten Dogder managers. Elsewhere, Jaffe makes an interesting attempt to draw an analogy between Alston and "Casablanca" director Michael Curtiz.

What can you say about White Christmas ? The movie is one of the best-loved and most-watched holiday films of all time, a panoply of heart-warming characters and big musical numbers.

Jessica Rothert is a charming and exceedingly talented actress, and Bad Dates is a charming and exceedingly insignificant play.

Viewers' questions are answered on "Dear Food Network: Top 10 Thanksgiving Problems Solved" , which offers tips for carving turkey and recipes for turkey, side dishes, drinks and desserts; on "Thanksgiving Dessert" , Ina Garten gives modern confectionery ideas with help from Alton Brown and Tyler Florence.

In Suffern, Nelson Page is once again firing up the mighty Wurlitzer organ Saturday mornings before his Big Screen Classics.

It's hard to feel upbeat when everyone around you is sick, out of work, miserable, complaining about something, and/or battling addiction, eviction and a deadbeat ex.

Duration: 1:51:02 TVPG Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her turn in the title role as a housewife who dotes on her daughters, after being ditched by hubby Bert , who found affection from Maggie Binderhof .

Break out the party hats and grab the birthday candles! It's time for the big 4-0! That's right.

The Star Tribune's Taste section celebrates its 40th birthday with a screening of the decadently delicious "Mildred Pierce." Joan Crawford won her Oscar in this 1945 women's picture/film noir/murder mystery as a lower-class divorcee making it on her own.

When we first approached Heights Theater owner Tom Letness with the idea of a screening a food- or restaurant-related film as a part of the Taste 40th birthday celebration, he immediately offered some sound advice: Forget about the most obvious choices.

Break out the party hats and grab the birthday candles! It's almost time for the big 4-0! That's right.

I think I must have fallen in love with shoulder pads when I saw Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce.

Is Kate Winslet really the one for this weepie re-make? Is she hard enough?: Kate Winslet Normally my heart sinks when I hear that someone is remaking a movie classic: why try to improve on something that is perfectly good already? But I'm intrigued to learn that HBO is about to produce a new mini-series version of Michael Curtiz's terrific old ...

What do Dustin Hoffman, Joan Crawford and George Peppard have in common? Blame it on Hollywood's ever-increasing fear of risk-taking, but one of each's signature roles is being recast in the latest slew of movie and TV remakes.

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Ann Blyth had a slightly upturned--some might say "stuck up"--nose that made her just perfect for the role of "let's not get mushy about it, but I'm sleeping with your husband" Veda Pierce in the 1945 Warner Bros..... Ann Blyth had a slightly upturned--some might say "stuck up"--nose that made her just perfect for the role of "let's not get mushy ...

Sixteen years after she appeared, as a teenager, in such programmes as Casualty and Family Matters, Kate Winslet is being lined up to return to the small screen.

Weirdest news of the week coming at'cha right now... Kate Winslet, who we all thought would lie low for a bit after her Oscar win, is going to play "Mildred Pierce" . Yes that Mildred Pierce! It's the restaurateur/mother/martyr role that won the immortal Joan Crawford her long coveted Oscar.

That's why films are full of them. In the new romantic comedy The Proposal , which is sort of like an unofficial remake of Peter Weir's Green Card , Sandra Bullock plays a high-powered New York executive who has to feign marriage to a nervous underling to avoid being deported back to her native Canada.