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Champagne, elegant canapes, celebrities - this was definitely not your typical Tuesday night shopping outing.

Jeff Bridges as Bill Django is The Men Who Stare at Goats. The pleasure of an actor's company often makes a nondescript movie seem great.

Earlier this week I posted about a trio of last-minute Best Actress contenders .

In The Men Who Stare at Goats , Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong - the whole Aquarian Age, flower power, altered states of consciousness thing.

Wagon Master Directed by John Ford. "Hi, my name is Peter Bogdanovich and I had nothing to do with this movie, except that I love it." That's the first line from the commentary track, the only extra feature on this DVD but one that John Ford fans will regard as a treasure.

Sometimes you can be too good at your job. When Cloris Leachman started up the dark stairs of the castle in "Young Frankenstein," with a candelabra of unlit candles in her hand and Gene Wilder in tow, her classic line delivered in a thick German accent was: "Stay close to the candles.

One of the more pleasant perks of this gig is occasionally encountering a film you've heard about for ages but never seen, and then discovering that it lives up to its rep.

We made it. My old high school pal Jim Donovits and I loaded the Explorer down last week and drove a thousand miles to Archer City, home to the All Booked Up bookstore, the brainchild of my favorite author, the great Larry McMurtry.

The Last Picture Show takes place in the small dusty Texas town of Anarene during the early 1950s.

Cloris Leachman, the 10th annual Port Townsend Film Festival's very special guest, definitely commands a room's attention.

Cloris Leachman, the very special guest of the 10th annual Port Townsend Film Festival, looked out over the bluffs of Port Townsend from the home of a film festival volunteer and onto the bay where sailboats were slowly making their way in the evening breeze.

Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi Quaid, were arrested Thursday for allegedly ducking out on an $10,000-odd hotel tab in Santa Barbara County.

Didn't see this one coming: Randy Quaid and his wife Evi fought with police who arrested them in Marfa, Texas,on felony warrants charging them withskipping out on a hotel bill of more than $10,000. Evi had to be wrestled to the ground and Randy "assaulted them both physically and verbally and resisted arrest," according to TMZ, but will not be ...

Put your horses away. Frau Blucher is coming to town. Tickets go on sale today for Omaha film historian Bruce Crawford's 25th classic movie screening, Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein." Crawford's special guest for the Oct.

For the past six weeks at the old country house in Washington County, we've been sitting around griping about the heat and the drought.

This week's picks include one of the best Westerns, a documentary on a blacklisted screenwriter and Hugh Jackman's reprisal of his role as Wolverine.

Cloris Leachman, an Academy Award winner for her role in "The Last Picture Show," will be honored during this year's Port Townsend Film Festival Sept.

"Paper Moon" starred Ryan and 10-year-old Tatum O'Neal, who won a supporting actress Oscar.

A distinctive American character actor with roots in Broadway musicals, Eileen Brennan was best known for her Oscar-nominated supporting role as an unrelenting drill sergeant in the fish-out-of-water comedy "Private.... A distinctive American character actor with roots in Broadway musicals, Eileen Brennan was best known for her Oscar-nominated ...

This sensitive actor made a big splash in 1971 in Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun" and Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show", but his initial career fanfare sputtered and he subsequently starred in TV.... This sensitive actor made a big splash in 1971 in Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun" and Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show", ...