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My Summer Fling

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I’ve been a lifelong Game Show Network viewer. I’ve seen the show change logos, slogans and content – incorporating classic programs and starting-up new ones. But a few years ago, I began to wonder why the number of reruns of older shows (from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and even the 2000s) was getting smaller. […]
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Be in the Know on ‘Jerry O”

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When the folks at “Live” were looking for someone to take over for Regis Philbin after his departure in 2011… (notice I use the words “take over” and “departure”, not “replace” and “retirement”)… a number of people auditioned. The frontrunners included Anderson Cooper, Neil Patrick Harris, Seth Meyers and Jerry O’Connell. Ultimately, Michael Strahan got […]
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That Other Time She Was Mary Poppins

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Julie Andrews famously played the flying nanny Mary Poppins in Disney’s 1964 classic (which turns 55 this month). It’s a performance that earned Andrews her first (and only) Academy Award. Of course, Disney made a long-awaited sequel last year with a “practically perfect” Emily Blunt. Andrews herself didn’t want to make an appearance in “Mary […]
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The Boss and The Movies

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The new movie “Blinded by the Light” is inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen. With its release next Friday (with early nationwide preview screenings on Monday night), here’s a look at the prior cinematic contributions of The Boss: “PHILADELPHIA” (1993) Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” won him the Best Original Song Academy Award. “This is […]
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Blanchett at Her Best

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Two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, who turned 50 earlier this year, is regarded as one of the best actresses of our time. She’s won two Oscars (her first for playing Katharine Hepburn in “The Aviator”) and has been nominated five other times, including “I’m Not There”, “Notes on a Scandal”, “Elizabeth” and follow-up “Elizabeth: […]
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Orange You Glad There Are Nick Movies?

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Next weekend’s “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” sees Paramount and Nickelodeon once again putting a spin one of their popular cartoons. This “Dora” is a live-action, CGI adventure – not hand-drawn animation like the TV series. There have been several Nick animated shows that have been adapted into theatrical features. In 1998, the […]
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A Sunny Day for ‘Racing in the Rain’

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“The Art of Racing in the Rain” is a new family drama starring Kevin Costner as the voice of Enzo the dog and Milo Ventimiglia and Amanda Seyfried as his owners. It’s based on a best-selling 2008 novel from author Garth Stein. On my recent trip to LA, I attended an advance screening of “Art […]
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Hollywood is STILL Obsessed with Hollywood

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In early 2016, I wrote a piece about Hollywood being obsessed with Hollywood. The industry released a host of films in the early 2010s chronicling stories of the film and TV industry: “The Artist”, “Hugo”, “Argo”, “Hitchcock”, “Saving Mr. Banks”, “Birdman”, “Trumbo”, “Youth” and “Hail, Caesar!” These added to the already plentiful entries in the […]
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