Recent discussion of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, in the context of the TV miniseries FEUD that retells the story of their considerable personal conflict, brings up thoughts of Crawford’s signature movie, MILDRED PIERCE (1945). It is remarkable just how much Crawford’s reputation rests, today, on this one film. Sure, she made other famous […]
Originally published on Facebook 21 October 2014. Despite it being accepted as a given by everybody who ever mentions it, the CASABLANCA TV series starring David Soul was not some one-of-a-kind, historical icon of awfulness. Really. It wasn’t. It wasn’t terrible at all. It just wasn’t special. Nor was it the crazy stupid thing TV […]
Originally published on Facebook 8 October 2010. The 1976 version of KING KONG is justifiably derided as possessing a vast magic-deficit compared to the 1933 original; I think it’s easily the worst of the three versions (and while I know many of you hate Peter Jackson’s 2006 remake, please shut up; I’ve had that argument […]