"In
two words: im-possible."
_- Samuel
Goldwyn,
movie mogul
movies+TV
shows+acting schools+famous directors
http://www.starseeker.com
Did
u no?
The exuberant film dance
team
of
Fred
Astaire+Ginger Rogers
was
on the Box Office TOP 10 List 3
times. Astaire+Rogers' films r
considered 2b among the brightest
musicals that MGM released during
the 1930s. This duo made 10 films
2 which
many critics feel r the best
musicals Hollywood has ever pro-
duced: Top
Hat+Swing
Time.
"Miracles
happen to those who believe in them."
_- Bernard
Berenson,
Art Historian
Disney
movies
http://movies.disney.com
humor
When an actress saw her first strands
of gray hair she thought she'd dye. :-D
Did
u no?
Only 3 Academy
Awards
films
have
swept all 5 categories in Best Picture,
Best Directing, Best Actor+Actress,
+Best Writing: 1934's It
Happened
One
Night, 1975's One
Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest,+1991's The
Silence of
the Lambs.
Academy
of Motion Picture
Arts+Sciences
http://www.oscars.org
"I
believe in censorship.
_After
all, I made a fortune
_out
of it."
_- Mae
West
Did
u no?
At 1 time if you worked on a film set,
u were called a movie,+the
film itself
was called a motion
picture.
Motion
Picture Association of America
http://www.mpaa.org
"Fall
absolutely madly in love with
_anybody.
If it's the wrong person,
_all
the better; then you'll have some-
_thing
to make a movie about."
_-
Allison Anders,
Hollywood director
American
Film Institute
http://www.afi.com
Did
u no?
The
Three Stooges
appeared in more
movies than any other comedy team
in U.S. film history.
"What
a grand thing to
be loved;
_what
a grander thing still to
love.
_The
heart becomes heroic through
_passion.
It is no longer
composed
_of
anything, but what is pure; it no
_longer
rests upon
anything, but
_what
is elevated and great."
_-
Victor Hugo,
French
playwright
_____________of
"Les Miserables"
The National Film Board of Canada (English+French)
http://www.nfb.ca
~~~
Did
u no?
In 1918, Walt
Disney
at
16 years
of age lied about his age 2 get
in2 the Red Cross Ambulance
Corps whose age requirement
was 17: he drove an ambulance,
chauffeured officers, played
poker, started smoking+wrote
letters.
Sony
Pictures
http://www.sonypictures.com
Did
u no?
4 The
Grinch
(2000), starring
Jim Carrey, about 90 makeup
artists were employed 2 apply
face prosthetics, wigs+makeup
on the numerous cast members
with each makeup job taking
from 1 to 2
hours 2 complete.
Paramount
Pictures
http://www.paramount.com
Universal Studios
http://www.universalstudios.com
Warner Brothers
http://www.warnerbros.com
~~~
Did
u no?
On July 12, 1912 the 1st
foreign film
was screened
in the United States. It
was a French film whose English title
was Queen
Elizabeth.
Its French title
was Les
Amours de la
reine Elisabeth
which translated means the
lovers of
Queen
Elizabeth.
The abbreviated
title
was considered more
appropriate 4
American audiences by the film dis-
tributers.
Bright
Lights Film
Journal
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com
~~~
"According
to a recent interview,
_Jennifer
Aniston didN'T
sleep with
_Brad
Pitt the first nine months they
_dated.
When
asked about it, Aniston
_said
she wanted to, but the line was
_too
long."
_-
Conan O'Brien
Entertainment
Weekly's
http://www.ew.com
access
hollywood
http://www.accesshollywood.com
eTalk (entertainment news)
http://www.ctv.ca
~~~
Did
u no?
Movie actor, Sean
Connery,
married
twice on the Rock
of Gibratar:
it's a
popular spot 4 honeymooners.
http://www.gibraltar.gi/tourism
Movies
http://moviefone.com
Yahoo
Movies
http://www.yahoo.com/movies
AllMovie
http://www.allmovie.com
Rotten
Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com
The NEW Reel.com
http://www.reel.com
movie
reviews - newsgroup
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Roger
Ebert's
movie reviews+ratings
http://www.rogerebert.com
Q: In
what year was the movie
__ Smokey+The
Bandit
released?
A:
In 1977 staring
Burt Reynolds
__as
the Bandit, Sally Field as Carrie,
__his
love interest,
Jerry Reed as The
__Snowman,
his traveling
partner+
__Jackie
Gleason as Sheriff Buford T.
__Justice
who he is trying 2 outsmart.
discussing the movies - newsgroups
rec.arts.movies.past-films
rec.arts.movies.current-films
Movie Reviews - query
engine
http://www.mrqe.com
Metacritic
movies+TV+games+music reviews
http://www.metacritic.com
FilmMonthly
http://www.filmmonthly.com
FILMBEAT
http://filmbeatcc.tripod.com
~~~
Did
u no?
Scotland's Sean
Connery,
born in
1930, was a milkman+a nude model
b4 finding fame as Her Majesty's
most famous cinema spy, James
Bond.
movie
tickets
http://www.movietickets.com
AMC
theatres
http://www.amctheatres.com
~~~
Did
u no?
Arrested 4 vagrancy when a teenager,
actor, Robert
Mitchum,
served time on
a Georgia chain
gang.
Starseeker.com
http://www.starseeker.com
MovieClicks
http://www.movieclicks.com
movie
search engine
http://www.imdb.com/search
"Being
called very, very difficult is the
beginning
of success.
Until you're
_called
very, very difficult you're really
_nobody
at all."
_-
Bette Davis
International
Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com
~~~
"It
was me and five other guys fighting
_for
the part and
you doN'T want to act
_like
you're trying to kiss up, so I didN'T
_do
anything and let everyone else screw
_themselves
up."
_- Chris
Evans,
young actor
~~~
Did
u no?
In Hollywood, parts
get improved on
as well as names.
Who
was Marion
Michael
Morrison?
Yepper, he was
alias THE BIG GUN, John
Wayne.
Hollywood.com
http://www.hollywood.com
"It's
a dry-ice town, baby. Colder than cold."
_-
Robert Evans,
Paramount
movie producer
_______________commenting
on Hollywood
Did
u no?
Billy Wilder's 1950 film, Sunset
Boulevard,
is
considered by
many 2b the best film ever made
about
Hollywood staring
Gloria
Swanson as Norma Desmond,
Erich von Stroheim as her man,
+William Holden as the ill-fated
Joe Gillis, who starts+ends the
flick face down in Norma's pool.
Hollywood
Stock Exchange
http://www.hsx.com
~~~
"Young
black filmmakers do with
_movies
what Louis Armstrong and
_Duke
Ellington did for music. They
_ennoble
the human spirit, NOT push
_it
down."
_- Ossie
Davis,
actor
Did
u no?
Hollywoods'
first major
celebrity
wedding
took place on March 27 1920
between Douglas Fairbanks (Born
Douglas Elton Ulman, known 4
his
role in The
Mark of Zorro, Robin
Hood,
and The
Three
Musketeers.)
+ Mary Pickford
(Born Gladys Mary
Smith, known 4 her role in Rebecca
of
Sunnybrook Farm, Pollyanna,
Poor
Little Rich Girl+Coquette.
They co-starred in The
Taming of the
Shrew.
Interestingly, they called their
place: Pickfair.
celebrity gossip
- newsgroup
alt.gossip.celebrities
The Celebrity 100 - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com
"I
used to be Snow White - but I drifted."
_- Mae
West
The Smoking Gun - celebrity
gossip
http://www.thesmokinggun.com
Celebrity
Morgue
http://www.celebritymorgue.com
~~~
Did
u no?
b4 becoming a box office sensation,
Oscar-winning actor Denzel
Washington
worked as a
drama instructor.
entertainment
collectibles
http://astore.amazon.com/enn2auction-20
~~~
Did
u no?
While the television show, Seinfeld,
was set
in New York City, the
exterior
used 4 the apartment house is actually
in
Los Angeles,
California.
Movie Mistakes
http://www.nitpickers.com
Movie
mistakes
http://www.movie-mistakes.com
Movie+TV
Bloopers
http://www.slipups.com
~~~
Did u no?
The
huge Hollywood sign that
looms
above Los Angeles,
Tinseltown's
most noted icon turned 92 in
2015.
Built in 1923, the billboard
has become
the
symbol of the movie
industry.
A struggling actress, Peg Entwistle,
committed suicide in 1932 by throwing
herself from the top of the letter H. The
letters r 50 feet tall+30 feet wide. Inte-
restingly, it was originally
an advertise-
ment
4 a property company called
Hollywoodland.
The
Hollywood REPORTER
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com
MovieWeb
http://www.movieweb.com
~~~
Did
u no?
b4
becoming famous in
the enter-
tainment industry, they worked as
truck
drivers: Stephen
J. Cannell,
Robert
Conrad, K.D. Lang, Gregory
Peck, Sidney Poitier, Desi Arnaz+
Elvis Presley. (James Cameron
worked both as a truck driver+a
school bus driver b4 becoming a
successful film director of The
Terminator+The Titanic.)
Did
u no?
These
r
considered 2b
the TOP
10 movie lines:
1.
"I'll
be back."
___- The
Terminator
(1984)
2. "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
___- Gone
With the Wind
(1939)
3. "Get busy living or get busy dying."
___- The
Shawshank Redemption
(1994)
4. "Hasta la vista, baby."
___- Terminator
II: Judgment Day
(1991)
5. "Well, nobody's perfect!"
___- Some
Like it Hot
(1959)
6. "Dave, this conversation can serve
___no
purpose anymore. Goodbye."
___- 2001:
A Space Odyssey
(1968)
7. "Goodbye, Mr. Bond."
___- Goldfinger (1964)
8. "I've seen things you wouldN'T believe.
___Attack
ships on fire off the shoulder of
___Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the
___dark
near the Tanhauser gate. All those
___moments
will be lost in time like tears
___in
the rain...
Time to die."
___- Bladerunner
(1982)
9. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
___- White
Heat (1949)
10. "Forget about it!"
___- Donnie
Brasco
(1997)
~~~
Did
u no?
The term bockbuster
was 1st
used
during
World War II by
Allied soldiers
to describe a bomb capable of leveling
an entire city block. After the war the
term became used 4 anything that
caused a major
social
impact like
highly
successful
movies+books.
Netflicks
http://www.netflix.com
FoxConnect
http://www.foxconnect.com
VLC
Media Player
- cross-platform (FREE)
http://www.videolan.org
~~~
"I
have really never considered myself
_a
TV star. I always thought I was a
_neighbor
who just came in for a visit."
_- Fred
Rogers,
host of TV kids' show,
______________Mr.
Rogers,
30+ years
MTV (Music
Television)
http://www.mtv.com
CinemaClock
Toronto (English+French)
http://www.cinemaclock.com
~~~
"I
must say that I
find
television very
educational.
The minute somebody
_turns
it on, I go to the library
and
_read
a book."
_-
Gruocho Marx
~~~
Did
u no?
Rocky+Bullwinkle
cartoon show
was presented on television back
in September
29th 1959.
Did u no?
Back on October
4th 1957,
the TV
program, Leave
It To
Beaver, 1st
aired across
America in black+
white with Beaver, Wally, Ward,
+June.
CBC
http://www.cbc.ca
CTV
http://www.ctv.ca
TV Ontario
http://www.tvo.org
Did
u no?
On September 4th 1964 Gilligan's
Island
1st
debuted with Skipper,
Mr. Howell, Lovey Howell, the Pro-
fessor, Gilligan+2 diametrically
opposed femmes
fatales:
Ginger
+Mary Ann. In all, there
were 98
episodes
of this very
popular
sitcom series.
Did
u no?
On March 30th 1964 when TV
quiz show, What's
The
Question?
(today's Jeopardy)
premiered
on NBC with Art Fleming as
the host.
NBC
http://www.nbc.com
ABC
http://abc.go.com
FOX
TV
http://www.fox.com
The
Discovery Network
http://www.discovery.com
~~~
"Brace
yourself for immediate disintegration."
_-
Marvin,
the Martian
Looney
Tunes - kids
http://looneytunes.kidswb.com
~~~
Did
u no?
Elvis
Presley made
only 1
television
commercial,
an ad 4
doughnuts that
ran in 1954.
USA
Network
http://www.usanetwork.com
Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org
Association
of Public Television Stations
http://www.apts.org
~~~
Did
u no?
On November
12th 1969 Sesame
Street
premiered on TV with such
imaginative
characters as Big Bird,
the Cookie
Monster, Ernie+Bert,
Oscar, the Grouch+Kermit, the Frog
teaching young children their numbers
+letters so they could read+write.
AMC
http://www.amctv.com
NewsLab
http://www.newslab.org
~~~
Did u no?
Alfred
Hitchcock
appeared, no matter
how briefly, in
every movie he made.
Alfred Hitchcock,
master
of the cinematographic
language -
newsgroup
alt.movies.hitchcock
~~~
Did
u no?
The film starts out in black+white.
Then,
when Dorothy
opens the door
in Oz, the movie suddenly
switches
2 full color.
Picturehouse
http://www.picturehouse.com
entertainment news+movies
news+reviews
http://www.indiewire.com
"Peace,
tranquility, and good will."
_-
Bob Dylan,
Oscar Awards
Night, March 28th, 2001
Did
u no?
The French film
noir
(pronounced:
film nwahrr)
was a film genre of the
1940s-1950s period noted
4 its fata-
listic, pessimistic+cynical mood.
It often dealth melodramatically with
urban crime+corruption. Billy Wilder,
who died in March 2002,
directed 2 film
noir
classics: Double
Indemnity+
Sunset
Boulevard.
Festival de Cannes (English+French)
http://www.festival-cannes.com
Quebec
Francophone Film Festival (English+French)
http://www.festivalcinemania.com
Did
u no?
While
editing his murder mystery
movie, Woody
Allen
realized that
all the best footage had 2 do with
its romance subplot, so he *eedited*
Annie
Hall (1977) as a
romantic
comedy.
"You
caN'T win with a losing hand."
_-
Bob Dylan, Wonder Boy
song
Did
u no?
Actors Robert Redford, Steve McQueen,
+Paul Newman all turned
down a contract
offer of $4
million
4 the starring role in
Superman
b4 it was
offered 2 little-known
Christopher Reeve who was paid $250,000
4 the part.
Sundance
Film Festival 2007
organized
by Robert
Redford
http://www.sundance.org
"It's
so
hot I'm sweating like Elizabeth Taylor
_after
a Mexican
meal."
_-
Robin Williams,
Grammy winner
Mexico
International Film Festival
http://www.mexicofilmfestival.com
~~~
Did
u no?
On filmmaking, former talk show
host Arsenio Hall commented:
Making
movies is very
complicated,
tedious,
and tiresome. It is
especially
terrible
for a comic, because
you do a
joke
and you
turn to the people and ask,
Was
it funny? They
say, We'll
let
you
know
in eight months.
~~~
Did
u no?
The wreck of the Titanic
was found
on September
1st 1985.
Leonardo
DiCaprio
http://www.leonardodicaprio.com
Detective
Charlie Chan
http://www.charliechan.net
Bob
Denver, Gilligan
http://bobdenver.com
~~~
Did
u no?
Actor Jamie Farr who played Klinger
on the popular TV series M*A*S*H
was
the only member of the television show
cast who actually served
as a soldier
in
the Korean War.
Like
Television
download
movies+videos (FREE)
http://www.liketelevision.com
Original
Movie Posters
http://www.passini.com
vinatge portal
http://www.vinmag.com
~~~
"I'll
tell you what, you can get a good
_look
at a t-bone by sticking your head
_up
a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the
_butcher's
word for it."
_-
Chris Farley,
movie Tommy
Boy
The
Blues
Borthers (1980 movie) - download
http://www.imdb.com
Starwars
http://www.starwars.com
TV
soaps
http://www.sonypictures.com
~~~
Did
u no?
The acronym U.N.C.L.E.
on the
1960s
TV spy series
stood 4 United
Network
Command 4 Law
Enforcement.
The Late Show with David
Letterman
http://www.cbs.com
The Jimmy
Kimmel Late
Night Show
http://abc.go.com/shows/jimmy-kimmel-live
The Late Late Show
http://www.cbc.com
Did
u no?
The Laugh-In
show
regulars were
Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Ruth
Buzzy, JoAnne Worley, Lily Tomlin
+Judy Carne.
Funny
TV
Shows+Comedy TV Series
http://www.cc.com/shows
~~~
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