HBD Marianna Hill!! Ruth in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool; w/Verna Bloom again in Eastwood's High Plains Drifter + Batman and #StarTrekToS (Dagger of the Mind - some serious Kirk side-eye); and GF2! Interview via @hillplaceblog.bsky.social: hillplace.blogspot.com/2016/12/medi...

Happy Birthday to Marianna Hill. Here is my interview with her where she discussed her life and career in-depth. hillplace.blogspot.com/2016/12/medi...

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I did this podcast with Jim Herlihy @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social where we interviewed Chris Costa, the director of the International Spy Museum in Washington DC. www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/the-internat...

Ernst Lubitsch, Herbert Marshall AND an essay by @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social? Just pre-ordered.

McCashin is more intelligent &insightful about KnotsLanding in 49mins than the inarticulate We’re Knot Done Yet podcast has done across 39eps. She praises the series without mythologizing it & acknowledges its limits. It's refreshing she doesn't inflate it into a cultural revolution or trash Dallas.

“Champagne for our real friends…and real pain for our sham friends!” -my dad, every year, about now #2026

Looking back at Rob Reiner, by my brother www.cbsnews.com/video/rememb...

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Jim Herlihy @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social & I talked w/Dickie Arbiter @royaldickie.bsky.social about Andrew, Fergie, Harry & Meghan & even The Crown! He was great & had terrific insights about everything. Thanks for chatting with us, Dickie. www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/andrew-mount...

One of my favorite TV movies, Nightmare in Badham County, premiered 49 years ago tonight on the ABC Friday Night Movie.

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—Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes. Happy birthday to Carole Lombard, whose magnificent swan song TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942) is now playing on the Criterion Channel.

This is a podcast I did last week w/ @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social where we interviewed Carla Malden about working with her father Karl Malden on his great 1997 memoir "When Do I Start?" We cover everything from Kazan to Brando to Argento. www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/when-do-i-st...

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Like Vera Miles, Barbara Rush, Lois Nettleton, Shirley Knight, Janice Rule, Sheree North, Jessica Walter, Marianna Hill, Dina Merrill, Hope Lange & Gena Rowlands,Crowley was an Underrated Oddity (odd in that they didn't always land parts they deserved) & TVGuest Actress Par Excellence for decades.

HBD Jacqueline Bisset!! MCCT5: 5)La Cérémonie (Chabrol) 4)Welcome to NY (Ferrera) 3)Bullitt (Yates) 2)Under the Volcano (Huston) 1)Day For Night (Truffaut) More: @showbizsimon.bsky.social: www.forbes.com/sites/simont... @hillplaceblog.bsky.social: hillplace.blogspot.com/2014/01/posi...

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A triple feature of rarities starring Acquanetta! CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN (1943) screens tonight, Monday August 18th, at 7:30pm on a 35mm triple feature with JUNGLE WOMAN (1944) at 9:00pm and DEAD MAN'S EYES (1944) at 10:20pm.

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By the way, on this podcast I mentioned actress Lar Park Lincoln and I meant to say Kent Masters King, and I apologize for it. I got their names mixed up because their names had three words in them and I sincerely apologize.

I appeared on Jim Herlihy's @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social podcast tonight to discuss the differences between the great Melrose Place podcast "Still the Place" & the Knot-good-at-all (pun intended) Knots Landing podcast "We're Knot Done Yet". www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/podcasting-1...

In Sept. 2013, I interviewed Dolores Hart while she was in Charlotte, N.C. This was a big "first" for me when it came to film interviews. What a wonderful day that was. cometoverhollywood.com/2013/09/14/l...

Revisiting Come Fly with Me (1963) Dolores Hart's final feature film

I adore Karlheinz Böhm. So dreamy. Pictured here with Dolores Hart in a publicity photo for COME FLY WITH ME (1963)

It’s Friday. This pleases me.

Remembering Phyllis Davis on her birthday. A sexy bombshell who could act, she did comedy & drama, villains & heroines in a nuanced manner. She had an excellent speaking voice that gave her gravitas & maturity. Her best work was LoveAmericanStyle, Vega$, Sweet Sugar & Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

High praise for THE BEST OF EVERYTHING from Mr. Dreyer himself. I think he's right. (There's Bell, Book and Candle too, but the publishing is secondary to the witchcraft.) Look at this with the typewriters and manuscripts, and the rack of Fabian paperbacks in the back. 😭

One of the most intelligent and kindest dignitaries you'll ever encounter at the TCM Film Festival.

One of the reasons the 1st two Die Hards were better than the others was because Bonnie Bedelia's Holly gave Bruce Willis' John McClane something worth fighting for. Sure, some of the others had his grown kids, but we didn't see these actors before, and we didn't really care about them.

I appeared on @JimSanFrancisco.bsky.social's podcast this evening to discuss Mariska Hargitay's superb, deeply affecting documentary about her mother Jayne Mansfield on HBO. You can listen to it here. www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/my-mom-jayne...

At #IlCinemaRitrovato I decided to revisit an old friend in a glorious 4K restoration—LIFEBOAT, a movie I've loved since childhood. Damn, it is just gorgeous, and dark and moving, and thematically I'm sorry to say it's more resonant than ever.

The lady's gotta earn a living somehow: Rare TV commercial with LaWanda Page as the company spokesperson for Queenella's pre-cleaned chitterlings. youtu.be/xPZ0GGYTB_k?...

I remember him from Twelve O’ Clock High

“…his most famous role might be one many people don’t realize they are referencing: He was the actor in a Vicks Formula 44 cough syrup commercial who first spoke the words, “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

With all of the chatter today about the 50th anniversary of NASHVILLE's release, I may as well share the article I wrote about the movie for The Dissolve -- one of the pieces of writing I'm proudest of. thedissolve.com/features/exp...

Ann Rutherford (November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012)

I wrote about Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys several times for The AV Club over the years, but this relatively compact review of The Smile Sessions says most of what I I wanted to say about a singular genius. www.avclub.com/the-beach-bo...

Robert Altman's Nashville was released 50 yrs ago today. Here's my 2014 interview with one of its stars, Cristina Raines. If I do say so, I think it's the best interview from any Nashville actor because she pays tribute to the other 23 stars & Joan Tewkesbury. hillplace.blogspot.com/2014/06/sinc...

An above-average guest cast in this "Streets of San Francisco."

I've always loved the split-screen slasher flick "Wicked Wicked" to such a degree that I've since wanted to live my life in Anamorphic Duo-Vision.

RIP to the brilliant-in-every-sense Judd Rose, who was taken from us 25 years ago today -and much too soon. www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ...

Watching episodes of Julia this weekend has been a pleasure, especially regarding the chemistry of its cast and the often thoughtful and touching writing. Diahann Carroll, Marc Copage, Lurene Tuttle and Lloyd Nolan have tremendous rapport in all of their scenes together. youtu.be/77Pc-J9ofgk?...

Yes! Please watch it!

One of the sweetest marriages in Hollywood, Frederick Brisson and Rosalind Russell, out at the Stork Club in September 1945. Cary Grant fixed them up. Roz was #BornThisDay in 1907, in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Once, the coolest table in town. RIP www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...