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Sibling rivalry: Hollywood's oldest feud
... of weeks ago, the Academy of Motion Pictures which organises the Oscars held a bash honouring the late actress Bette Davis on the 100th anniversary of her birth. In so doing, they unwittingly laid bare this celebrity feud for the ages. Naturally, ... Comment?
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... star of the play, Leslie Howard. When Warner Bros. bought the production rights to the play, Leslie Howard and Bette Davis were cast. However, Howard was prepared to back down from starring in the picture if Bogart was not chosen to reprise his role ... Comment?
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With 'An Altared Christmas,' Santa Cruz musician Rhan Wilson shakes...
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... a repressed memory that has essentially ruined her life. It's a cutesy bauble rerouted through the viewpoint of Bette Davis in "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte." "Deck the Halls" is another example, reworked into a canny statement on the stresses of the ... 2 comments
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I Hate Splitting the Check
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... decision reversed. I ended up just paying for myself (plus a few extra bucks--I grudgingly forked over $25). As Bette Davis said in the immortal Scream Pretty Peggy , "Was I so wrong?" Comment?
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LANDRY: Plays Bette Davisa role from the film.
... Orphans at their tawdry best - smashing highball glasses, chewing scenery and breaking hearts with the gusto of Bette Davis herself. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1950 film has one of the best scripts ever, so it was wise of the Orphans not to mess with it ... Comment?
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At Mint Theater Company, Kristen Johnston as a ditsy diva
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... reception is due to the workmanlike script. It lacks the polish, witty cynicism and indelible dialogue of the Bette Davis classic. What it does have is Kristen Johnston as the ill-behaved, boozy superstar who disregards all a ' writer, director, ... Comment?
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... its heyday, the restaurant attracted a who's who roster ranging from Frank Sinatra to Harry Belafonte. "I signed Bette Davis for Family Reunion at the Tea Room," says Lucy Jarvis, an award-winning documentary filmmaker who celebrated her 90th ... Comment?
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Dam Busters star Todd dies, 90
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... known for playing dashing big screen heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1955 film The Virgin Queen opposite Bette Davis, Robin Hood and Rob Roy. He also appeared with Marlene Dietrich in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright and continued to make TV ... Comment?
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Jerrya s Ink: I Dona t Understand Women
... a little boy, the difference between movies. There were women's, men's and couple's movies. Now Voyager (where Bette Davis played a sad spinster who served her mean mother) was a woman's movie. But What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (where Bette Davis ... Comment?
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I'm hearing a lot about loneliness
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... I have dozens of DVDs stacked on sink tops to take my mind off "things" while in my bath. I'm enjoying a Bette Davis festival at the moment, with my favourite 1944 Mr. Skeffington just edging out Now, Voyager. Claude Rains plays the dream Jew in the ... Comment?
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... girl who sinks into prostitution after her soldier fianc is reported missing in action. Look for the young Bette Davis in a small role. This is superior to the better-known and more costly 1940 remake with Vivien Leigh . Sun., Dec. 6, 2:30, 5:30 & ... Comment?
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... movies. There were women's movies, men's movies, and couple's movies. In the 1940s, Now, Voyager (a flick where Bette Davis played a sad spinster who served her mean mother) was a woman's movie. But What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (where Bette ... Comment?
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... in Los Angeles. Bette and Bogie Turner Classic Movies presents the 1937 movie "Marked Woman" (5 p.m.), with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart in a story about a woman working as a hostess in a gangster's nightclub. It's followed by the 1936 movie "The ... Comment?
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There's a wonderful moment inFrank Capra's "Pocketful of Miracles," when Bette Davis, as a ragged street peddler named Apple Annie, incredulously gazes down at the five-cent piece that someone has just given her. Comment?
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Meryl Streep covers Vanity Fair January 2010
... career to last this long: "It's incredible - I'm 60, and I'm playing the romantic lead in romantic comedies! Bette Davis is rolling over in her grave. She was 42 when she did All About Eve, and she was 54 when she did What Ever Happened to Baby ... Comment?
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... her husband's funeral. Tallulah Bankhead's performance in the original 1939 production is theatrical legend, and Bette Davis starred in the film version, directed by William Wyler. Davis and Wyler were tumultuous off-screen lovers, but their biggest ... Comment?
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... range from deadly to dead funny. All About Eve (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz' Oscar-winning backstage epic casts Bette Davis as an aging diva and Anne Baxter as the star-struck ingenue whose hero worship masks a raging desire to take her idol's place. ... Comment?
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Comment on 9 Great Gift Books for the Holidays by Ross
... a glass of wine, and all the other corners of the gastronomic globe. Warning: Yes, the photos are in full color. BETTE DAVIS: LARGER THAN LIFE by Richard Schickel and George Perry a 'A Yep, she may have been a bitch, but she's still one of the ... Comment?
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Kenzo's nostalgic Homme S/S 2010 collection
... colonialsts, at their country club, on their rubber plantation in Malasia as depicted in the Letter , with Bette Davis, circa 1941. See the correct manners, the correct etiquitte, and the correct fashion. This world doesn't exist anymore. This is ... Comment?
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... Julius and Philip Epstein by unearthing some of their best work. Tonight, it's Mr. Skeffington (1944), featuring Bette Davis and Claude Rains as a pair of mismatched lovers who split apart only to eventually find love. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle ... Comment?
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