Lionel Barrymore

Speed camera flaws provide vindication for complaints

2012-11-28 15:22:00

Two and a half years ago, I wrote a column about getting nailed by a speed camera in Baltimore for the first time, and, let me tell you, did the righteous readers of this newspaper — people who never ever ever drive over the speed limit — give...

Made in Maryland

2006-11-01 00:00:00

Absolute Power (1997) Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'A Bride for Christmas' on Hallmark

2012-11-30 20:00:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 2 - 8 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES My Crazy Obsession: This new episode features a woman who has more than 120 fully decorated Christmas trees, a man whose...

Television review: 'A Fairly Odd Christmas' offers cheer to show fans

2012-11-29 06:00:00

"A Fairly Odd Christmas," which premieres Thursday on Nickelodeon, is the second (mostly) live-action TV movie to be sprung from the network's long-running cartoon series "The Fairly OddParents" (ninth season coming! 2013!). Though its appeal will be...

When is “It’s a Wonderful Life” on TV 2012?

2012-11-20 16:33:07

John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis get TCM marathons

2012-07-31 16:45:08

This weekend: Kathy Bates, Jean Harlow and Rob Lowe

2012-05-25 16:45:24

Saturday’s Highlights: 'Firelight' on Hallmark

2012-05-04 21:36:35

On Theater: Actor makes 'Life' wonderful in Laguna

2011-12-08 16:08:54

Few movies can be reinterpreted as one-person plays with any degree of success, yet the Laguna Playhouse has made the concept succeed in two consecutive productions. Following on the heels of the one-woman "Shirley Valentine," the Playhouse now has the...

Saturday's Highlights 'Would You Rather…?' on BBC America

2011-12-02 21:36:48

TV tonight: ‘The Sound of Music,’ ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ ‘Auntie Mame’

2011-12-24 16:40:25

Norman Corwin dies at 101; radio's 'poet laureate'

2011-10-19 00:00:00

Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and producer of original radio plays for CBS during the golden age of radio in the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the "poet of the airwaves," has died. He was 101. Corwin, a journalist, playwright,...

This version is softer and brighter -- more Hollywood, if you will -- than other interpretations, leading some critics to label it "A Christmas Carol Lite.

2011-12-22 13:44:28

OH, MARIE: On her way to becoming a top box-office draw, comic veteran Marie Dressler (shown with Lionel Barrymore) played one from the heart, delivering a moving performance and snagging the best actress Oscar as a waterfront innkeeper in "Min and Bill" (1930).

2005-10-21 17:52:39

BOTTOM'S UP: In the 1930 s twisty legal drama "A Free Soul," Lionel Barrymore (shown with fellow Oscar-winner Marie Dressler) played a booze-guzzling lawyer who gets his upper-crust hands dirty as a defense attorney in two murder trials. His reward: best actor honors from the academy.

2005-10-21 17:06:44