By: debbie lynn elias Who among us doesn’t love a longshot; especially if you’ve got the winning bet. One such winning bet paid off on 50 to 1 odds at the 2009 Kentucky Derby, not only for Chip Woolley and Mark Allen, owners of Derby winner Mine That Bird, but
By: debbie lynn elias One of the most marvelous movie-going experiences of the year, with WORDS AND PICTURES screenwriter Gerald Di Pego and director Fred Schepisi create a film that wafts over you, making the heart smile. The dialogue is smartly written and constructed, as well as intelligent and witty.
By: debbie lynn elias With script by Linda Woolverton and John Lee Hancock, and led by animator/artist/ production designer/art director/VFX and two-time Oscar winner Robert Stromberg, who makes his directorial debut (finally!), MALEFICENT has cast its spell on the world. Crossing the $200 million mark this weekend, MALEFICENT’s success proves that
By: debbie lynn elias If you follow baseball, and particularly the Pittsburgh Pirates, then you probably know Pirates pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel and the story behind MILLION DOLLAR ARM. If you don’t, well, just sit back and don’t leave your seats until the final out in the ninth
By: debbie lynn elias From the moment that L. Frank Baum put pen to paper back in 1900 and swept that first generation of collective and individual imaginations up into a Kansas twister, the stories of Dorothy Gale, her little dog Toto, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Woodsman
By: debbie lynn elias Directed by James Gray and co-written with Ric Menello, THE IMMIGRANT is a film that is not to be missed and is, quite honestly, the best work of Gray’s career thus far and will be difficult to top. Steeped in the rich immigration history of America
By: debbie lynn elias Whether you know him as Gidget’s beloved “Moondoggie” or as T.J. Hooker’s right hand Officer Jim Corrigan or the smooth and swingin’ Vic Fontaine or even Philadelphia’s own James Ercolani, we all know him best as Jimmy Darren. A legend in tv both in front of and
By: debbie lynn elias Writer/Director James Gray’s latest film, THE IMMIGRANT, is one not to be missed and, quite honestly, is the best work of his career thus far and will be difficult to top. Steeped in the rich immigration history of America in the early 20th Century, THE IMMIGRANT is
By: debbie lynn elias As his lifelong friend Carole Cook notes, it’s “showing a lot of class” when one watches TCM and her pal Robert Osborne, and equally so when Robert Osborne joins her on May 10th at the 30th Annual S.T.A.G.E. Goes to the Movies to benefit APLA. In Cook’s
By: debbie lynn elias Now into her sixth decade in show business, stage and screen legend Carole Cook has done it all and seen it all. Filmgoers young and old alike undoubtedly know her best as Bessie Limpet to Don Knott’s The Incredible Mr. Limpet or for her work in Sixteen
