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On This Day: The Cocoanut Grove burned
In 1993, the Bay Village Neighborhood Association built a memorial on Piedmont Street.
Today in History, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009
Today's Highlight in History: Nov. 26, 1789, was a day of thanksgiving set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
Pondering "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness": A Tribute to a Brave Missionary to China, Gladys Aylward
This week my wife and I watched a marvelous old movie from 1958, " The Inn of the Sixth Happiness " starring Ingrid Bergman.
Claude Rains memorabilia to UNA film library
"I remember going to my local libraries to see if there was anything written about my dad," she said of her father, Hollywood legend Claude Rains.
Penelope Cruz became an actor because of Pedro Almodovar - twice. The first time was in 1990, when Cruz was a young girl growing up in Alcobendas, just outside of Madrid, and happened upon the director's "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!," a wacky love story about a former porn star and her kidnapper.
A movie mystery with accoutrements of the finest quality but with the soul of a Charlie Chan -ish, B-grade, grindhouse product.
Top Ten Romance Movies for the Over Fifty Crowd
Romance is a lifetime adventure that is identified in different ways through this illustrious group of romance movies.
"Spellbound" wasn't one of Hitchcock's best films - the treatment of analysis is hokey, the plot is at once too complicated and too cleanly resolved, the violins swell cloyingly every time the bespectacled psychiatrist, Ingrid Bergman, claps eyes on handsome headcase Gregory Peck.
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Cuba Giving Copies of Hemingway Documents to Kennedy Library
The Boston Globe reported that Cuba's Ministry of Culture had given the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum copies of 3,000 letters and documents Hemingway amassed during his years in Cuba, from 1939 to 1960.
The start of a beautiful film series
THOMASTON : The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library is presenting a series of films in Room 208 of the Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. The Friday night movies for November have a Bits of Nostalgia theme.
Alfred Hitchcock film scenes recreated in Plexiglas and paper tape
The monochrome world of Hitchcock's Spellbound has been revisited in a new artistic medium - layers of brown parcel tape stuck on to a 4ft-high sheet of clear plastic through which light is shone.
Oscar to Ingrid: Here's not looking at you, kid
Strange, but true: Ingrid Bergman wasn't nominated for best actress in " Casablanca ," which won best picture of 1943.
TCM's 'scary' movies mess with your head
Sometimes the scariest movies don't involve gore but just the right elements to spark our imaginations and fears.
Out with the new, in with the old
"Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. This heart-wrenching romance about two lost lovers and a rekindled romance is sure to capture your heart.
October 27, 2009, 7:12 AM / 1. "Yom Kippur" is the Jewish religion's Day of . . . 2. Cerise is a color of bright blue, bright orange or bright red? 3. In what movie does Ingrid Bergman say "Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding"? 4. Ulan Bator is the capital of what large-area but small-population country? 5. A flag flown at half-mast is ...
My dog is relieved to have Roger back in the picture. "Did you divorce what's-his-name?" Sterling asks the horse meat heiress Annabel.
Hollywood's heyday: playing it again, briefly
Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper. If you question the greatness of anyone on this list, remember that the name of this Penguin series is Great Stars, not Great Actors, and there can surely be no arguments.
Around Town: Lights, camera, action
The glamour of Hollywood was at its zenith when designer Edith Head was creating fashions for the most famous actresses, such as Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman and Olivia de Havilland.
Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2.4 'Senate Spy'
Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2.4 "Senate Spy" October 19, 2:22 AM Star Wars Examiner Bryan Young The Clone Wars Lucasfilm, Ltd "Senate Spy", the fourth episode of the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is very much a thrilling homage to what may have been one of Alfred Hitchcock's finest films, Notorious.
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New voting machines get thumbs-up
Often voters have to make difficult choices, but the choices posed at the Orange County Board of Elections on Saturday were particularly perplexing.
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