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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: The Yellow Rose of Texas read more

Esther Williams and Ann Miller are pictured alongside Red Skelton in Texas Carnival, one of his best films for MGM. The publicity department promoted the film as an Esther Williams vehicle but Red Skelton was really the star of this show, the last of four films the twosome made together. From t read more

Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson were great pals off-screen and they had the good fortune to play together on-screen in 11 films released throughout the 1940s. Most of these were simple comedies in the vein of the popular Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road pictures that Paramount was issuing. In 1946, Morga read more

Jack Carson is cuddling up with an Indian maiden in this publicity photo for Warner Brother's Two Guys from Texas ( 1948 ) that featured the comedy duo of Carson and Dennis Morgan. The "Indian" pictured is Cleatus Caldwell, wife of actor Robert Hutton. From the Archives is our latest serie read more

Ninety years ago this week, Carole Lombard's first film for Paramount, the Charles "Buddy" Rogers musical vehicle "Safety In Numbers" (Lombard is second from left) had the distinction of being the first film shown at a venue that architecturally held its own with any movie palace of the time.It was read more

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable gets lots of love at Love Field in Dallas in December 1939 (that's MGM publicist Otto Winkler next to Carole) as they make a stopover en route to Atlanta for the "Gone With The Wind" premiere. For Carole -- who looks a bit perturbed by it all -- it's a far cry from her read more

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Two Guys from Texas (1948) read more

The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Seven The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) / Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994, Kim Henkel) Originally posted: November 10, 2010 Subscribe via iTunes. read more

The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Eight The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) / Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994, Kim Henkel) Originally posted: November 10, 2010 Subscribe via iTunes. read more

The personal, private, top, top super-secret diary of Nasa Springer No boys allowed! (tee-hee) June 12, 1932 Dear Diary: Just got back from riding my horses across our vast Texas estate. We stopped for a water break at Dallas and then got as far as Amarillo before we turned back. Oh, and I sa read more

The personal, private, top, top super-secret diary of Nasa Springer No boys allowed! (tee-hee) June 12, 1932 Dear Diary: Just got back from riding my horses across our vast Texas estate. We stopped for a water break at Dallas and then got as far as Amarillo before we turned back. Oh, and I sa read more

  Audie Murphy awarded Texas Legislative Medal of Honor Governor Rick Perry will formally present the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor posthumously to Major Audie L. Murphy on October 29, 2PM in a public ceremony in Farmersville, Texas.  The award will be accepted by Murphy’s sister, Mrs. read more

Where chainsaws ever present in nightmares before The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?  Since Tobe Hooper’s film in 1974, the chainsaw has taken new life.  The rev and buzz of the machine has become part of the soundtrack of the Halloween season and being chased by a madman wielding the tool is essential read more

"No One Man," "No Man Of Her Own" and "White Woman" were three of Carole Lombard's Paramount releases in 1932 and 1933 -- and heralds for all three films now are up for auction at eBay.No date is given to when it ran, but we do know where it ran -- the Mission Theater in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in t read more

Viver sonhando / Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (1948) O título da blogathon é “William Castle – Scaring the pants off America”, mas em nada o terror tem a ver com esse filme do começo da carreira do diretor, que então tinha apenas 34 anos. A comédia leve e simpática conta read more

Viver sonhando / Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (1948) O título da blogathon é “William Castle – Scaring the pants off America”, mas em nada o terror tem a ver com esse filme do começo da carreira do diretor, que então tinha apenas 34 anos. A comédia leve e simpática conta read more

The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) stars silent cowby hero Tom Mix as Jack Parker. Until he met Texas Ryan, the Eastern-bred daughter of rugged cattle king William Ryan, Jack Parker was just a straight-shooting, hard-riding cowboy. Hoping to see Texas again, Parker accepts a job on the Ryan ranch. Whil read more

The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) stars silent cowby hero Tom Mix as Jack Parker. Until he met Texas Ryan, the Eastern-bred daughter of rugged cattle king William Ryan, Jack Parker was just a straight-shooting, hard-riding cowboy. Hoping to see Texas again, Parker accepts a job on the Ryan ranch. Whil read more

This past weekend the Belgian Film North Sea Texas opened in New York and Los Angeles. I was fortunate enough to watch this film in July when it screened at Q Fest in Philadelphia. Based on the plot synopsis I had hopes that it would be a good film, what I didn’t expect was for the film to be read more

Most holidays worth their while encompass entire seasons, such as Christmas, for example. However, as you may have noticed there is a corporate push every year for us to think about the next holiday even sooner. While this has many negative side effects I figure I may as well embrace it. Since Labor read more