Karl Malden News

Although the present world is fascinating place there are times when temporary escape is not only desirable but necessary.A The princely sum of about eight dollars rented two movies about stirring events from another time and place.

Jose here bringing you the Monday Monologue , this time taken from Elia Kazan's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire .

I am speechless. Literally. I can still write but I can't speak after having just screened the METEOR DVD released by RHI Entertainment.

Here's some nostalgia, courtesy of Jonathan Hall from Cornell University Press. Jonathan contacted Hoboken411 to share this fantastic video from American Magazine about what inspired the famous movie On the Waterfront , Karl Malden's character Father Barry - and recently deceased filmmaker Budd Schulberg .

After I did my column on my favorite war films of all time, one reader went postal on me and listed about 137 disparaging things about my column.

After I did my column on my favorite war films of all time, one reader went postal on me and listed about 137 disparaging things about my column.

After I did my column on my favorite war films of all time, one reader went postal on me and listed about 137 disparaging things about my column.

Last month Karl Malden died at age 97, and a few hours later Michael Jackson stole the spotlight away.

Tonight at dusk, D.C.'s National Mall will host a special Screen on the Green showing of the 1954 classic On the Waterfront .

Tonight at dusk, D.C.'s National Mall will host a special Screen on the Green showing of the 1954 classic On the Waterfront .

I'll fly away, The Jug Band will perform on the Heritage Stage at the Lake County Fair at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug.

Burt Lancaster portrays Robert Stroud, a man twice convicted of murder who becomes an expert in the science of birds during his 53 years in solitary confinement in the 1962 movie "Birdman of Alcatraz" . Karl Malden and Telly Savalas also star.

Irwin Allen. Story: Not too long after the rescue of the previous film's six survivors, a pair of rivaling ships come across the capsized ocean liner in search of a fortune that is said to be hidden on board.

Opposite George C. Scott's flamboyant film portrait of Gen. George Patton, Karl Malden was the perfect choice for the role of Omar Bradley, the national symbol of the regular Joe infantryman of World War II.

His friends called him "Sukie," easier to pronounce than his tongue-challenging birth name of Mladen Sekulovich.

HBO2 has an Entourage marathon all night. At 8, ABC has a new Surviving Suburbia , then a new Goode Family .

In his nearly 20 years in the insurance industry, including 15 years at CIGNA, where he retired last year as vice president of corporate communications, Wendell Potter was the guy who defended the $12 million annual compensation for the top guy or deferred comment on the latest lawsuit charging dropped coverage for those in dire need.

With the spate of recent celebrity deaths, last week's passing of 97-year-old Karl Malden almost slipped through unnoticed.

Media coverage of Michael Jackson's death swamped the attention paid to the death of Karl Malden on July 1. Both were Gary natives.

You can see Malden, center, with Lee J. Cobb, and Eva Marie Saint in On The Waterfront on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel Friday at 8 p.m. A younger generation who knew Karl Malden for his co-starring role on the TV series The Streets of San Francisco, and later for a series of credit card commercials, may be surprised to learn that in the ...