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About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Today is my birthday! Yay! Having a birthday fall around Thanksgiving can be a mixed blessing. The big holiday competes with my birthday and my friends and family have other plans that rev read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles.   The winner of Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir by Piper Laurie is... Kathy from Florida! This was Kathy's entry: "My favorite Piper Laurie movie is "Tim" (1979).  I like ho read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Steve McQueen: A Biography by Marc Eliot 9780307453211 Hardcover 368 pages October 2011 Crown Archetype (Random House) I don't remember the names of many biographers but Marc Eliot stands read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. "You're just not ready for me yet" - Cincinnati Kid Most classic film enthusiasts consume films at a high rate. I am not one of those people. My slow rate of consumption leaves fo read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. "I had achieved my childhood dream of becoming a movie star and then left it all behind for a second career as a serious actor." - Piper Laurie Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir by Pip read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. John Huston: Courage and Art by Jeffrey Meyers 9780307590671 Hardcover Crown Archetype - Random House September 2011 496 pages John Huston was an admirer of high art but he didn't think f read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles.   Reviews (and giveaways!) to come. Slowly... On the list Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History John Huston: Courage and A read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Quincy M.E. is a TV show starring Jack Klugman as the title character. It aired from 1976 to 1983 and is well-known as the antecedent to the popular CSI and forensic TV shows of today. It' read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. The Odd Couple was a television series that aired from 1970 to 1975 and starred Jack Klugman as Oscar and Tony Randall as Felix. The original story was a Neil Simon play that was performed read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Jack Klugman has a minor role a good Jewish cop in the non-Tony Rome/Frank Sinatra film The Detective (1968). He plays Officer Dave Schoenstein, whom besides Sinatra's Detective Joe Le read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Day of Wine and Roses (1962) was directed by Blake Edwards and stars Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Lemmon plays Joe Clay, a public relations man whose job is to make rich clients happy. Even read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. 12 Angry Men (1957) is a very ambiguous film and it's open to many interpretations. On one hot summer day in the 1950s, 12 jurors meet in a room to come to a verdict in a murder trial. Ev read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship by Jack Klugman and Burton Rocks Foreward by Garry Marshall 2005 Good Hill Press Out of Print but available to purchase online Comes with DVD of outtake read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I am in the throws of a heartfelt crush with Jack Klugman. My what a fine actor. What a great smile. What a lifespan! Jack Klugman is still with us at the ripe age of 89. And he has work read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Here is a selection of classic film related books due to go on sale this Fall. A few of them are previously published and either being reissued or put into paperback but pretty much all of read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Previous posts Interview with Jeff Rapsis Buster Keaton and Live Musical Accompaniment at the Somerville Theater What an excellent opportunity it was to be able to watch 3 more Bus read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Ninotchka (1939) was screened this past Sunday at the Somerville Theater as part of their Summer Classic Film Series. I singled out the two lesser known films in the series, Captain's C read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Recently, I had the opportunity to watch 2 Buster Keaton shorts and 1 full-length film on the big screen with live musical accompaniment (read more about the experience here). The music wa read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart by Nell Shipman Third Revised Edition - 2001 9780932129048 $24.95 Nell's secret for working with wild animals who could sense and would react dan read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. When Elizabeth Taylor passed away earlier in the year, one of my favorite authors Gigi Amateau tweeted the fact that she had met Taylor briefly years ago. I tweeted her back asking if she' read more