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Flashback: My Trip to the Academy Awards

I have a very good friend who works at the Academy and each year she gets to attend the Academy…

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Film Museums

A few years ago, I took a little road trip with my parents to Harlem, Georgia to visit the Laurel…

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Lost Films I Long For

I was speaking one day to an elderly man who used the phrase, “You can’t miss something you never had.”…

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“Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies”

If Mary Pickford is known today outside of film fan circles, it is merely as “The girl with the golden…

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Discovering Dorothy Dandridge

CARMEN JONES (1954) Directed by Otto Preminger I’ve always wanted to see this film so I’m glad the big screen…

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The elegant Vincent Price

As a youngster I quickly realized I wasn’t anything like the other children. Instead of playing outdoors with Barbie dolls,…

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Cinema adventures in Paris

I’ve always been fascinated by Paris France.  For ages I’ve longed to travel the world and Paris was the first…

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NOTFILM – An Interview with director Ross Lipman

Director’s Statement by Ross Lipman My new film, Notfilm, is a documentary about the embattled collaboration between Nobel Prize-winning playwright…

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In Memory of Robert Osborne

Flashback March 7th, 2017: The other day I sat at my desk crying upon hearing about the death of a…

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The Laurel & Hardy Museum

Harlem, Georgia is a sleepy little southern town. If you blinked, you'd miss it. On January 18, 1892 Oliver Norvell…