What was it all about? A noisy, fast-moving revue show with silly voices, mild smut and excruciating puns. It was schoolboy heaven. Principal writers were John...
Also working undercover for the LAPD–at about the same time Angie Dickinson was on the force–was the blacksploitated Christie Love. Massively Afro-coiffed and dressed to the...
Many consider City Lights, Charlie Chaplin’s last silent movie, to be his greatest artistic achievement. It’s easy to see why. The story, in which a little...
TV opens up a new under world with the undersea exploration of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Appearance Super svelte, French diver with a nasal voice and ready smile....
Historical ‘situation tragedy’ Blackadder is the brainchild of Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) and Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral). The pair first met...
Proof that political progress needn’t be PC, Diana Rigg’s Emma Peel definitely gave the ’60s women’s movement a pop-culture kick in the pants. Ironically, the Shakespearean...
Nobody grouched like Nora Batty (played by Kathy Staff). In fact she could grump for England. When she wasn’t pulling up those stockings that seemed to...
If a Blake Edwards movie ever deserved a Best Picture nod, the divine Breakfast at Tiffany’s was it. Edwards’ typically over-the-top kookiness (The Party, The Pink...
Every once in a while, a TV personality comes along who makes us rethink what to do with our hair. In the fall of ’76, there...
The Headline: Elizabeth Taylor Steals Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds Elizabeth Taylor didn’t spend long mourning the death of third husband Mike Todd, and she wasted...