The Moment: The Campfire Scene in Blazing Saddles (1974) Who’s to Thank: Mel Brooks The Setup: The nighttime scene opens with appropriately hokey dum-da-DEE-da, dum-da-DEE-dah cowpoke-harmonica...
It’s gotta be strange, going through your teens with a mom who’s more sarcastic than you. Typical Roseanne dialogue: “Hey, Mom. Why are you so mean?”...
Another entry in our occasional series looking at classic characters from the golden age of movies; This time it’s Tippi Hedren’s Hitchcock Blonde Melanie Daniels in...
The Line: “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” Who Said It: Gloria Swanson as the quintessential diva, Norma Desmond, in the 1950 film...
The character that made Bogie a star, gumshoe Sam Spade has seen more angles than a geometry professor and spotted more lies than a polygraph, but...
Complimented on dominating a film in which he appears for less than 20 minutes total, Orson Welles, with uncharacteristic modesty, told Peter Bogdanovich, “That’s the part,...
Original Spin: In Jaws (1975), director Steven Spielberg kept the shark mostly hidden, letting the fear of the unseen do all the work. And while Bruce...
Claim to Fame: Many become famous. Some become legends. But only Judy Garland landed a spot somewhere over the rainbow. She started young (at two years...
Claim to Fame: It’s not just that Barbara Streisand is the top-selling female artist in history. Or that she earned an Oscar for her movie debut...
When Dragnet returned to prime time after an eight-year absence, Jack Webb’s hard-boiled cop show had clearly left the ’50s behind. The story we were about...