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25 August 2010 ~ View Comments

Happy 80th Birthday, Sean Connery

He says he’s done with acting, except voice over work. The biggest mistake he ever made was turning down Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. He would have made $400 million if he had taken it. Ian McKellan was great but I would have loved to see Connery play the role. Ah well.

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09 August 2010 ~ View Comments

The Great One

These interviews with Jackie Gleason from 1984 are really wonderful. That man was a creative genius in the true sense of the word, he could do almost anything very well. And you can see from this interview he not only tells good stories, his comic timing is effortless. His music albums are really great. His [...]

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09 July 2010 ~ View Comments

Darth Vader Banned from Star Wars Cons!

This is really outrageous. David Prowse has been banned from Star Wars events. This is the actor who played Darth Vader in the costume (he did not do the speaking that was dubbed in by James Earl Jones). The former body builder who was also in movies like A Clockwork Orange is now 76 and [...]

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02 July 2010 ~ View Comments

Andrew Garfield = Peter Parker

Here is some scenes with the new Spiderman lead, Andrew Garfield. In case you were wondering what his acting was like. I’d say he looks credible. Maybe even better than Toby McGuire, who I liked.

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31 May 2010 ~ View Comments

Happy 80th Birthday, Clint Eastwood

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28 May 2010 ~ View Comments

Hypocritical Media “White Washes” Reality

My latest Big Hollywood piece about the faux outrage over the casting of the Prince of Persia and The Last Airbender. I don’t know about you, but the stench of the media’s hypocrisy about race is beyond tiresome.

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06 May 2010 ~ View Comments

Hollywood’s New Red Scare

My latest Big Hollywood piece, how Hollywood has been running a blacklist and a demonization of people for their politics for decades. Just not of communists.

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20 April 2010 ~ View Comments

Robert Evans Showed the Way

How Hollywood was once in worse shape than it is now. and how Robert Evans was one of the first studio execs who showed the way to their boom times to come. My latest Big Hollywood piece.

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01 February 2010 ~ View Comments

Hollywood’s Traitor Obsession

Over at Big Hollywood I am upsetting some Avatar fans. C’est la vie. It’s how Hollywood has turned the traitor into stock and trade. The latest in a long lost of cliches they tend to overuse.

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26 January 2010 ~ View Comments

The Dimness of Fading Stars

I can’t believe they didn’t use my title. Anyway, here is my latest Big Hollywood post. It’s about how boorish Hollywood partisans have become. How they’re shooting their careers in the foot.

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