Stan Laurel

Marriage In The Movies: A Look At Hollywood's Phantom Genre

2013-03-03 00:00:00

Jeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work. Basinger, the founder and director of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, also knows a lot about marriage movies,...

The story of the Oscars

2013-02-23 00:00:00

While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...

When movie costumes become fashion trends

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Deborah Nadoolman Landis has worked as a costume designer on more than 20 films over the last 40 years. Along the way, she has created several looks that have crossed into popular culture and become fashion trends. Here are a few anecdotes, in her own...

National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation

2012-12-19 05:00:00

A gripping western, a beloved holiday film, a 115-year-old movie capturing a famous boxing match, a memoir of a Holocaust survivor and a visionary science-fiction thriller in which Keanu Reeves utters the word “whoa” are among the 25 films...

Chuck McCann Is Back With 'Let's Have Fun' Reunion In NJ

2012-09-15 18:35:00

Anyone who grew up in the 1960s in the New York area knows the face and voice of Chuck McCann. McCann, along with officer Joe Bolton, Captain Jack Mccarthy, Bozo the clown and Gloria Okon created PIX 11's super successful children's tv programming....

City Lights: 'Hey, Martha' stories still worth telling

2012-04-25 16:09:00

A former editor of mine sometimes referred to what he called a "Hey, Martha" story. That was his term for a story with an offbeat or amusing twist. In other words, if an old couple were rocking on their front porch while the husband read the paper, he...

Mary Tyler Moore had Dick Van Dyke a little nervous [Video]

2012-01-29 21:38:51

Theater review: 'Laurel and Hardy' at the Falcon Theatre

2011-09-15 16:33:03

Honorary Oscars going to four 'extraordinary' men

2010-08-26 16:33:40

Critic's Notebook: Judd Apatow's 'Undeclared' comes to IFC

2010-11-05 16:34:52

Don Knotts, star of 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dead at 81

2006-02-25 14:30:00

Don Knotts, the saucer-eyed, scarecrow-thin comic actor best known for his roles as the high-strung small-town deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s CBS series "The Andy Griffith Show" and the leisure-suit-clad landlord Ralph Furley on ABC's '70s sitcom "Three'...

'Death at a Funeral'

2007-08-17 00:00:00

Death at a Funeral" is lethal farce, combining hints of "The Lavender Hill Mob," doses of Joe Orton and a smidgen of the Farrelly brothers' scatology in its mix. It's sillier but funnier than "Knocked Up," the summer's other notable comedy. Plopped on...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in one of their funniest vehicles.

2012-12-18 16:01:07

Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardey

2011-10-25 06:24:45

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2011-01-26 07:27:57