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Lou Lumenick on management change at the ZIegfeld Theatre

Posted on May 5, 2013 | No Comments
Cablevision is holding onto its lease for the iconic Ziegfeld Theatre but will turn management over to Bow Tie Cinemas, which has a contract pending to buy almost all of...
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Lou Lumenick on the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival

Posted on May 5, 2013 | No Comments
I had the fantastic time again over the weekend at my third TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, an event that just keeps getting better and better in its fourth...
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Hello, Barbra! Lou Lumenick revisits ‘Funny Girl’ and ‘Hello, Dolly!’ on Blu-ray

Posted on May 5, 2013 | No Comments
Just-ended April was quite a month for Barbra Streisand and her fans. She was feted last week at Lincoln Center (I wasn’t invited) and a couple of days later a...
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Deanna Durbin Meets Jean Renoir (and her future husband)

Posted on November 27, 2012 | No Comments
Universal’s surprisingly satisfying celebration of its 100th anniversary with a robust slate of classic Blu-ray releases — unlike Paramount, which has outsourced most of its back catalogue — unfortunately did...
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The movie Bob Hope didn’t want you to see finally making U.S. TV premiere on TCM

Posted on November 27, 2012 | No Comments
The only screen teaming of screen legends Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn is finally making its US TV debut on Turner Classic Movies on Thursday, 46 years after “The Iron...
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‘The Iron Petticoat,’ only teaming of Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn, resurfaces after 56 years

Posted on November 20, 2012 | No Comments
The TCM Vault Collection, which celebrates its fourth anniversary next month, scores a coup with today’s first-ever U.S. video release in any format of “The Iron Petticoat” (1956), a film...
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Nancy Olson on ‘Sunset Blvd’

Posted on November 5, 2012 | No Comments
No, Nancy Olson doesn’t think think Betty Schaeffer, her level-headed character in “Sunset Blvd,” goes back to Artie — the financee (Jack Webb) she dumped — after her new lover...
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70 Years Later, is Hollywood ready for a ‘Casablanca’ sequel from one of the original writers?

Posted on November 5, 2012 | No Comments
By LOU LUMENICK It’s a question that’s fascinated audiences since “Casablanca’’ premiered in New York City 70 years ago this month: What ever happened to Rick and Ilsa? Was saloonkeeper...
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For the Love of Film (Noir) Preservation Blogathon: ‘Street of Chance’ (1942)

Posted on February 17, 2011 | No Comments
This year’s blogathon masterminded by The Self-Styled Siren and Ferdy On Films and deploying a murderers’ row of dozens of bloggers, is seeking donations for the Film Noir Foundation. Specifically, they...
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DVD review: Midcentury Minnelli on marriage, masculinity, madness and movies

Posted on February 15, 2011 | No Comments
A prep school student is mercilessly bullied by classmates who suspect he’s gay — to the point where he tries to commit suicide. Sounds like the kind of horror story...
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