Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
Among the best of the 1960s animated television programs is Jonny Quest (often mis-spelled as “Johnny Quest” and often referred to as The Adventures of Jonny Quest), a short-run series from 1964-65, produced by Hanna-Barbera. Jonny Quest had everything going for it — action, adventure, suspense, comedy… and the creators of the program were obviously [...]
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Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91. “Esther Williams had one contribution to make to movies — her magnificent athletic body,” the film critic Pauline Kael wrote. “And for over 10 years MGM made the most of [...]
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by Leonard Maltin. Deanna Durbin, a star whose songs and smile made her one of the biggest box-office draws of Hollywood’s Golden Age with fans that included Winston Churchill, has died. She was 91. The only people who don’t like Deanna Durbin, it seems to me, are people who’ve never seen her movies. Possessed of [...]
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Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died surrounded by family and [...]
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Paul Anka wrote the song “Puppy Love” about his romance with her. When she was cast in her first beach movie, Walt Disney asked her to not wear a bikini and instead wear a one-piece swimsuit because she had an image to uphold… she agreed. “The Disney studio wasn’t like other studios. It was just [...]
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With his fellow reviewer and sometime sparring partner Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert could make or break the financial success of a motion-picture with their trademark “two thumbs up,” a catch phrase that was spoofed on In Living Color, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons… and became a catch phrase on movie posters and television commercials promoting [...]
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With Margaret O’Brien attending the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention this year, we thought it appropriate that we take a few moments and revisit one of the all-time great Hollywood productions, Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). The story takes place in the year before the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, and tells of the four Smith [...]
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A mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a giant blob of jelly, lands on earth. The people of a nearby small town refuse to listen to some beatnik hot rod teenagers who have witnessed the blob’s destructive power and growth. In the meantime, the blob just keeps on getting bigger… With an estimated cost of [...]
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