I just read the news that actor John Heard has died. He was 72 and passed away while recovering from back surgery. John was one of those actors that never made the big time, meaning he never got that big fat pay check or the star notoriety that others have…
Sometimes it’s just a moment. A scene. A glimpse into something that resonates deep inside of you. And in that moment that scene becomes a memory that never leaves you. Over this past week I’ve thought about one of those “moments” a lot. It has to do with the film “Philadelphia”…
It seems like a lifetime ago. A different life, almost. So much has happened since that moment, which now seems frozen in time for me. It was the highest of highs for me. A crescendo of emotions and love had brought me here. Not the kind of love that you…
There is an exclusive Hollywood party going on tonight that none of us can get into and all of us wish we could. The lineup of stars in attendance goes on forever. Bette Davis is there. So is Joan Crawford but they aren’t talking to each other. The King Clark…
What can I say about last night’s dismal Oscar ceremony that hasn’t been said at least a million times over the past twelve hours? That it ended on such an embarrassing note that went beyond anything we have ever witnessed? That from the time Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway walked…
I write this latest film blog not as the owner and President of said company’s website the blog appears on but as a film buff. First and foremost this is what I am. So I write this more as a matter of love than I do for any other reason….
I spent last weekend in Seneca Falls NY, or what the townies there refer to as “Bedford Falls”. That’s right. The same Bedford Falls that appears in the cherished Frank Capra film “It’s a Wonderful Life.” There is even a bedfordfalls.com tourism site. It seems that the town came up…
I like Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. A lot. Let me rephrase that. An awful lot. It was always in me though it took a long time to come out. My first experience was at a Chicago concert in Philly at the legendary Spectrum in Philadelphia, a very…
I love movies. That’s why I got into this business. And in spite of the “business” getting in the way of the “love affair” I have with all things celluloid I’m still the same kid I refer to in my previous blog. It’s just the way it is. This is…