Ninotchka News

TOPICS: History ; TV/Movies KEYWORDS: moviereview ; realtime First session: September 1, 2009.

It's fashionable these days to bemoan the tendency of Broadway producers to present musical versions of popular films that merely drop songs into a pre-existing property.

When unproven titles like Men's Vogue go away, it seems like a natural case of the recession shivers amid an increasingly cold world for print periodicals.

Yo La Tengo, the alt-rock indie band with a cult following the size of L. Ron Hubbard's, is playing tonight at the Vic Theatre for those who didn't get enough at Pitchfork.

Jewell Jordan Mason, who was Luise Rainer's stunt double for her Oscar-winning performance in 1937's "The Good Earth" and Merle Oberon's on "Wuthering Heights" two years later, died Sept.

Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in 'Ninotchka' , playing at Lighthouse International's Academy Theater on Monday.

Jean Paul Gaultier revisited the Golden Age of Hollywood at Paris couture season.

We enjoyed 1776 on TCM on the 4th. I absolutely adore William Daniels and Howard Da Silva in this.

For the week of Sunday, June 21, through Saturday, June 27. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

Nineteen thirty-nine proved to be a vintage year for classic cinema with many of those movies still being revived on television, remembered and cherished even after 70 years.

'Ninotchka,' starring Greta Garbo as a cold-hearted Bolshevik on a mission to Paris, is coming to the Ohmann Theatre Thursday, May 14.

For the week of Sunday, April 26, through Saturday, May 2. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.