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Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Happy 4th of July! Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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"Every movie star is disliked by some people," said John Cromwell, another director with whom she worked, "but everyone li...
Saturday, July 01, 2017

Lou Reed & Jim Morrison: Moralists between Irony and Sentimentality

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A student group in Canada apologized for playing Lou Reed’s 1972 hit “Walk on the Wild Side,” claiming the song is transphobic. The Guelph...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

46th Anniversary of Jim Morrison's death

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To Oliver Stone, discovering The Doors as a grunt in Vietnam, the music is secondary to Jim Morrison as a figure of liberation and his Di...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Oliver Stone's Putin Interviews, St. Petersburg's private tour guides

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Oliver Stone (who directed the 2016 biopic Snowden ) asks Vladimir Putin whether, as a former KGB agent, he was incensed with Snowden'...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Susan Hayward's Centennial (Film Legend)

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In the century since her birth (June 30, 1917) Susan Hayward has started to fade from the public consciousness – but not everywhere. Fans...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Deleting painful memories, David Lynch's Circle of Dreams, John Morton remembers Jim Morrison

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A new study suggests that it may be possible to develop drugs to delete memories that trigger anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder ...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Romantic Reactions, Jim Morrison's girlfriends

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On TCM June, 23, 2017 at 02:45 AM ― "ROMAN HOLIDAY": A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love wit...