Mama Don’t Take – Kodak Did
It was the summer of 1973 when Paul Simon begged ‘Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away’. Mama has finally taken it away. Mama is Kodak and they have announced that they will discontinue Kodachrome film.
Kodak first introduced the film, which was the first successfully mass-marketed color still film using a subtractive method, [...]
Top Movies of 1973
Clint Eastwood returns as Dirty Harry Callahan in Magnum Force. And like all of the Dirty Harry movies there is a catch line or sentiment that appears throughout the film. In this one it was, “A man has to know his limitations”.
The story of star-crossed lovers played by Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand [...]
Top Movies 1979
The Jerk took Steve Martin from a stand-up comic and comedy writer to a movie star. And the role rags-to-riches-to-rags that Martin played fit him perfectly. Not surprisingly when considering that he also was one if the writers of the movie.
10 was the brainchild of Blake Edwards and starred a little [...]
With a Huff and a Puff
In eight minutes on May 27, 1933 Walt Disney retold an old story. It was on that day that Disney’s Silly Symphonies version of the Three Little Pigs was released.
The cartoon produced by Disney and directed by Burt Gillet played in movie theaters for months, in a time when shorts were played [...]
This happened on May 25th
Originally published on May 25, 2007:
On May 25, 1977 the movie Star Wars was released.
In 1961, as part of the State of the Union address, President John F. Kennedy announces plans to send men to the moon. “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, [...]
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore was born on April 28, 1878. He was the eldest of the children of actors Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore. Maurice Barrymore legal name was Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe and Lionel’s birth name was Lionel Blythe.
His siblings Ethel and John as well as Georgina Drew’s parents, brothers and sister all were [...]
Top Movies 1970
1969 may have had the concert event of the 1960s with Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music. A documentary of the event was release in 1970. Noy only was it the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary, the film directed by Michael Wadleigh was the 6th favorite movie of the [...]
Charlie Chaplin
The man who created one of the most recognizable characters in film history, Charlie Chaplin, was born in 1889 on April 16. Chaplin created his ‘Little Tramp’ character in 1914 and appeared in silent comedy shorts and later in feature films into the 1930’s.
Chaplin’s parents were British Music Hall entertainers. Music Halls [...]
Top Movies of 1977
John Denver expanded his career of being a popular singer/songwriter with Oh, God!. This was his first starring role, but it was his co-star the 80 year old George Burns, playing God, that stole the show.
The Goodbye Girl released in November of 1977 was written by Neil Simon. During the 1960s and [...]
Kate Winslet and Oscar
Kate Winslet was awarded the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actress at this years ceremony. She was nominated for her role in The Reader. Even though no one will say it for certain, one would have to think it was really for her body of work in 2008. A year that she [...]
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