Original Cinemaniac

Monthly Archive: April 2018

TV Reboots

Reboots of older TV series seem to be the rage now. Some like Will & Grace and Roseanne have been surprisingly successful. Others like The X-Files not so much. Lost In Space, now streaming on Netflix, is a big leap…
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Celebrity CD-Don’ts

About the only LPs I’ve saved are those disastrously bad personality platters like A Dramatic Reading With Music (MGM), Sebastian Cabot’s 1967 hilariously pompous interpretations of Bob Dylan songs. Then there’s Way Out West (Tower), Mae West’s campy rock ‘n’…
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Nuns Gone Wild

Not having been raised Catholic my only exposure to nuns was in the movies, and these were primarily feel-good stories-  Audrey Hepburn in The Nun’s Story, Debbie Reynolds in The Singing Nun, Ingrid Bergman in The Bells Of St. Mary’s,…
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You Got Gay Mail!

I love collecting movie related postage stamps. James Dean, Alfred Hitchcock, Al Jolson. The new Lena Horne “Forever” stamp is just sublime. The 1997 release of stamps of famous Hollywood monsters was just sensational. It was such a joy putting…
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Skid Row Movie Psychos

Discussing his role as the crafty cannibal in Hannibal, actor Anthony Hopkins remarked: “I think all actors are good at expressing that dark, shadowy center.” True, many thespians have tried to broaden their range by playing maniacs but some were…
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