the passionate moviegoer
a fan's notes by joe baltake devoted to movies neglected and mostly misunderstood
Thursday, May 21, 2009
"The Best Damn Musical!"/The First Fifty Years of the Fabulous "Gypsy." In Eight Parts.
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Jack Klugman, The Merm and Sandra Chruch, as immortalized the the singular Al Hirshcfeld, in the original production of Styne-Sondheim...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
cinema obscura: Edward Burns' "Purple Violets" (2007)
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With an increasing regularity, I keep discovering compellingly obscure movies on my 300-channel cable schedule - fairly estimable movies th...
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
cinema obscura: John G. Avildsen's "W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings" (1975)
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Good old boy Burt Reynolds with (from left) Don Williams, Rick Hurst, Jerry Reed, James Hampton and Conny Van Dyke in John G. Avildsen'...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
"Real Housewives," or "The Women Redux"
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Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell - When wives had class as well as ambition and claws For reasons which, initially, I cou...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
literi: Nick Dawson's "Being Hal Ashby"
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The late, great Hal Ashby on location in New York for "The Landlord" with his star Beau Bridges Hal Ashby (1929–1988) had a rela...
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