Who’s to Thank: The Marx Brothers The Setup: Businessman/con man Groucho boards a luxury liner bound for the United States and discovers his stateroom is slightly...
The Line: “A medium dry martini, lemon peel. Shaken, not stirred.” Who Said It: Although Sean Connery would make the line his own, it’s actually first...
Admit it, Sebastian Cabot was a darned fine mom in classic sixties sitcom Family Affair. With bachelor Uncle Bill (Brian Keith) out and about all the...
Starring John Thaw, Dennis Waterman Why was it golden? The relationship between boozy, maverick DI Jack Regan and side-kick George Carter. It was the first TV...
The world of cinema is a place for us to escape the mundanity of our everyday lives. No genre embodies that feeling quite like a great...
Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), a miserly, stuttering Northern corner shopkeeper resplendent in brown coat, struggled against a lack of customers and a deadly, guillotine-like till to earn...
Irreverent and intellectual, wittily worldly and comically silent, quintessentially American and indelibly Old World, the Marx Brothers stirred the contradictions of American life during the 1920s...
Nat Hiken, one of the great comedy writers of TV’s early years, had a commanding knowledge of men in uniform: Before creating New York City patrol-car...
Born Margarita Carmen Cansino Rita Hayworth made some magnificent movies, from such escapist musicals as You’ll Never Get Rich to the noir classic Gilda. Yet no...
Who Said It: Clint Eastwood as Detective Harry Callahan in 1983’s Sudden Impact, the fourth installment in the “Dirty Harry” series The Setup: Eastwood’s cool San...