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Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 1:30PM As indicated yesterday we'll shortly be looking at Psycho, Sons and Lovers, Elmer Gantry, and the Oscar nominated supporting actresses of 1960 on the next Smackdown (get your votes in!) on Sunday July 21st. It's time to introduce you to this month's esteemed panelists!
First, a hearty welcome to two first time Smackdown panelists...
Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 10:20AM by Nathaniel R
Two time Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee and party fixture Sylvia Miles died yesterday, three months shy of her 95th birthday. The NYC native rose to fame as a cult figure, a pioneer of Off Broadway plays, part of the Studio 54 scene, and a rather daring actress. She was often seen with Andy Warhol (eventually starring for him in Heat, his randy 1972 picture, with Joe Dallesandro) never quite going mainstream. Both of her Oscar nominations, for example, came from very brief gritty performances, at least in Oscar terms...
Monday, May 20, 2019 at 2:48PM Here are 10 things worth celebrating on this day in showbiz history, May 20th.
Federico Fellini and Jeanne Moreau were both winners at the 1960 Cannes festival but they look none too happy about it!
1891 Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope gets its first public display (to the National Federation of Women's Club). Could any of them have imagined the colossal artform that would spring forth in those early days?
1960 The 13th annual Cannes Film Festival wraps up with Federico Fellini's masterpiece (well, one of them at any rate) La Dolce Vita taking the Palme d'Or. The competition lineup was insanely rich...
Monday, April 1, 2019 at 11:33AM by Eric Blume
Fifty years ago today, audiences saw their first Bob Fosse film: Sweet Charity, the Cy Coleman/Dorothy Fields musical for which he won the Tony for Best Choreography three years earlier. It’s fascinating to look back at this movie five decades later to see all the seeds that Fosse later brought to fruition in his subsequent films...
Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 11:00AM 
Just chanced upon this image of Best Actress competitors Judy Holliday and Gloria Swanson freaking out with joy at Jose Ferrer's Oscar win for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Gloria, naughty naughty, he just beat your amazing costar William Holden in Sunset Boulevard!
After the jump, a very random Beauty Break of glorious moments from past Oscar nights to whet your appetite for tonight...
