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Dennis Hopper 1936-2010

Dennis Hopper was one of the greatest screen villains of all time. Here he is drinking PBR, taking drugs, and generally scaring the shit out of everyone around him in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.

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Mad Men’s Pete Campbell

An interview with Vincent Kartheiser.

Some of the ways that Kartheiser has chosen to do this are unconventional, at least among Hollywood TV stars. He has, for example, in the city of cheap gas and freeways, given up on a car.

“I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house [...]

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Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins

Kathleen Turner is starring in Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, a biographical one-woman show about liberal political columnist Molly Ivins.

Ivins was best known to politically progressive Texans. While she had moments on the national stage she was at her best blasting the absurdity of Texas politicians working in the Texas [...]

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Zowie Bowie grew up, changed his name, and made a movie

Recently I wondered whatever happened to Woody Allen’s son. Today I learned that David Bowie’s son (who was Zowie Bowie as an infant, but long ago resorted to the more mundane, non-rockstar handle Duncan Jones) is the director of Moon, starring Sam Rockwell.

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Ronan Farrow

By 1987 Mia Farrow convinced Woody Allen to produce a biological offspring. After the 1994 divorce Mia was given custody of young Satchel, and he only saw his father under strictly supervised visits.

When he was eleven years old Satchel entered Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Last month he graduated from Yale Law School at age [...]

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Bea Arthur 1922-2009

It’s disappointing that the NYT obit by Bruce Weber refers to Bea Arthur’s television characters as “battle-axes.” Arthur had a long, successful, and storied career which Weber immediately diminishes in the opening sentence of his obit.

Bea Arthur made her name in television playing Maude in the eponymous series from 1972 to 1978. Created by [...]

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Darfur genocide as good as over

Mia Farrow goes on hunger strike to save Darfur. Mia, why didn’t you do this earlier?

“On April 27th I will begin a fast of water only in solidarity with the people of Darfur and as a personal expression of outrage at a world that is somehow able to stand by and watch innocent men, [...]

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Kal Penn Goes to Washington

Kal Penn, Kumar in the Harold and Kumar movies, and a regular on House, is putting his acting career on hold to work in the Obama White House.

“Penn told EW: “I’m going to be the associate director in the White House office of public liaison. They do outreach with the American public and with different [...]

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Dying in Obscurity

Neatorama has Five A-Listers Who Died in Obscurity.

Theda Bara

“Back in the silent movie era, Theda Bara was one of the biggest stars there was. She was kind of the Cher of her day, as far as fashion went – she wore extremely risque stuff that hardly covered anything. Some of it is eye-popping even by [...]

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Patrick McGoohan 1928-2009

“Where am I?”

“In the Village.”

“What do you want?”

“Information.”

“Whose side are you on?”

“That would be telling…. We want information. Information! INFORMATION!”

“You won’t get it.”

“By [...]

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Ricardo Montalban 1920-2009

I’ll always remember him best as Armando, the circus-owner with the heart of gold.

Montalban stayed married to his wife for sixty-three years.

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Sydney Pollack 1934-2008

Sydney Pollack’s top ten favorite/best films -

Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Conformist
The Godfather Part II
La Grande Illusion
The Leopard
Once Upon a Time in America
Raging Bull
The Seventh Seal
Sunset Boulevard

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