Lana Turner News

This new Lana Turner book caught my eye recently when it came up in my Amazon recommendations.

"I watched you spin your web of sex and death!" Sometimes, "bad" just doesn't cover it.

GOOD MORNING: Lana Turner's longtime yen to land Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as her leading man is close to reality with the Mirischmen negotiating with J.L.Warner for his loanout on "By Love Possessed." In exchange ...

The Churchill Arts Council's Fall Film Series presents two classic noir films at the Barkley Theatre in the Oats Park Art Center.

Special to the LVN The Churchill Arts Council's Fall Film Series will present three classic noir films at the Barkley Theatre in the Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon.

Handsome, perennially-tanned leading man of films and television who is more famous for his social connections than the roles he's played.

Turner Classic Movies recently showed "Honky Tonk," a so-so 1941 movie starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner.

The 1959 film, 'Imitation of Life,' a socially conscious film starring Lana Turner, Sandra Dee and John Gavin, will be screened at the Palm Desert Campus of California State University, San Bernardino Aug.

I've just been tuning in to "A Night with Johnny Stompanato," a radio play by British director-playwright Jonathan Holloway, which you may access via BBC's iPlayer until 18 July 2008.

'The Postman Always Rings Twice' 7 p.m., TCM The Hollywood production code of the 1940s may have been repressive, but that didn't stop Lana Turner and John Garfield from sizzling in this 1946 adaptation of the ...

However, I'm fascinated that Hollywood feels the need to endlessly adapt the novel .

From Ramblings: Patrolman Fred Kleinhem has completed installing the 200 new parking meter heads, recently purchased by the city, to replace broken and worn out meters.

Don't know about you, but I'm glad Miley Cyrus bared her back for a Vanity Fair photo shoot. via The Leaf-Chronicle

“The idea is that Hyde is not just a monster. He's a sick man with a beast inside him that he can't control”

Half man, half monster - one persona a paragon of virtue, the other the embodiment of vice and depravity. via San Jose Mercury News

More than a century after it caused a sensation, The Merry Widow is still much-loved and endlessly revived. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

More grieving over the father of LSD -- Albert Hoffman , who died at age 102. But what I'll especially miss are those fabulous campy movies made about tripping. via Paper Magazine

Came across this sad gem of an interview with Diana Barrymore. The inspiration for a biopic , Lana Turner's character in "The Bad and the Beautiful," and the title of the New York Dolls' second album, "Too Much ... via PCL LinkDump