Nikki Finke: Moving Target
good comparison. (The mighty gossip columnist inspired Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success .) That's because until now, at least, no one told her what to do. Here's her latest, on not getting the Ben Silverman scoop . Finke's getting shot at because she has power and because she has done, by herself, what few can do in journalism today: make money. People are taking her seriously because she lured huge traffic to her blog and sold it for unspecified millions. The question...

IUC Exclusive: Sixties Teen Male Actor to pen tome about his affairs with Screen Legends Brando, McQueen, Lancaster…
On a film set, an actor must produce quick results - it is too expensive if he doesn’t.  Certainly, young actors, at the puppet’s end of a production string, have to be able to twitch on order - exactly what one aspiring teen actor did back in the sixties.  “Carl” started working as an extra on films back in 1959 at age 12.  He revealed to IUC that by age 14 he had slept with more than two dozen actors, producers and directors - all male.  Now, he’s finally ready to tell al

Joseph Wiseman: A tribute to the late Dr. No
Joseph Wiseman, the Canadian-born actor best known for his deliciously evil portrayal of the James Bond villain, Dr. No, passed away yesterday at age 91. Wiseman appeared in a slew of Broadway productions, television shows, and movies such as Viva Zapata! with Marlon Brando and The Unforgiven with Burt Lancaster. But he will always be remembered for locking horns with Sean Connery’s agent 007 in 1962’s Dr. No . Wiseman’s character, a mad scientist with an arsenal of fiendishly...

The Moviezzz Blog's Holy Grail Films
I was tagged as part of the “Holy Grail” films meme by Adam at DVD PANACHE, where we are to write about the most hard to find films on our want list.Since college, I’ve kept a notebook of films I want to see. When I find a director or star that I like, I add all their films I haven’t seen to the notebook. I cross them out once I see them. Some of these titles have been listed since I first began, almost twenty years ago.None of these have made it to VHS let alone DVD.IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE (1931) -

20 Actor Meme
For the Actress Meme I chose the theme of actresses I fell in love with, and the movies I fell in love with them in. For actors it's men I admire in the sort of older brother I never had way. I like them tough, but not that tough, not tough to the point of camp, like jocks but tough to the point of being brave enough to be their whole self, feminine side and all, and yes, that includes John Wayne. Tough enough to hold their liquor and never let go of it, or facsimile thereof, and yes, that includes Dick Bur