Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Movies

Motion Picture Academy Gets A Great New Modern Logo

Love the new Academy logo. Here's a note posted by our old pal, Christina Kounelias. Nice work: "Two years ago we began a thoughtful internal...

Olivia de Havilland Wins Feud with Sister, Outlives Her to Age 97

Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were Oscar winning sisters who didn't like each other. According to Hollywood lure, they stopped speaking to each...

Will Ferrell’s “Anchorman 2” is Hilarious Fun As It Mocks (Among Other Things) Fox News

At last we saw "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues," the best marketed movie of 2013. No kidding. "A2" and Will Ferrell have a sizeable...

Stallone on New Movie “Grudge Match”: Nobody wants to see another boxing film, especially when you’re approaching 160 years old”

Sylvester Stallone says when he was approached to make "Grudge Match," a boxing movie with Robert DeNiro, he thought "it was absurd." At a...

Peter O’Toole, Legendary Star of Lawrence of Arabia, Dead at 81: “He Went Home to Die”

Peter O'Toole, one of the greatest actors of our time, is dead at 81. The legendary star of "Lawrence of Arabia" had retired recently....

Second “Hobbit” Movie Falls Short of Original’s Weekend Gross by $10 Million

The second Hobbit movie, "Desolation of Smaug," didn't have a great box office weekend. Its total was $73 million, about $10 million less than...

Box Office: Part 2 of “The Hobbit” Faces Trouble from Snow, Smaug

Things don't look so good for "The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug." Maybe no one knows what the title means. Anyway, smaug won't be the...

Update: Two Time Oscar Winner Jane Fonda Gave $350,000 to Charities in 2011

So. It seems that Jane Fonda is more charitable than I thought. It turns out she has a second, more funded personal foundation called...