Carrie’s choice: Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number (1966) Airing 11:30AM EST Yeah. You’re right. It’s a great title. This is a recommendation mostly because it looks hilarious. It begins with a fairly popular plot of escape: an actress is trying to escape from Hollywood, because they do not take her seriously enough as…
One of the most subversive, entertaining films of the 1940s, To Be or Not to Be, directed by the wonderful Ernst Lubitsch, is a masterwork of satirical, comedic madness. To Be stars Jack Benny in what is arguably the best role of his career, as Josef Tura, the hammier part of a Polish husband-and-wife acting…
Happy birthday, Bugs! Today being the 70th birthday of one of the most iconic characters in entertainment history, it’s only appropriate to celebrate by watching some of the crazy rabbit’s best. For anyone interested, Bugs Bunny shorts run rampant on YouTube, including the best of them all–1957’s What’s Opera, Doc? I’m also partial to Duck…
I love introducing people to classic film, particularly younger people. Hook ’em young, I always say. Okay, so I don’t always say that. But I should. And so it’s now my new motto. Getting back to the point … Last night, I introduced Jamie, my friend Michelle’s seventeen-year-old son, to the uber-hilarious 1963 farce, It’s…
From Jezebel … Alfred Hitchcock and the first recorded instance of a “that’s what she said” joke: It’s only appropriate, right? I mean, you only have to watch one of Hitchcock’s films to see how truly and delightfully bawdy he really was.
Between mystery illnesses and miscellaneous bothers, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks, but hopefully we can get back into the swing of things this week. Another 31 Days of Oscar celebration has come and gone, and my resolution to post a recommendation a day kind of fell apart there in the middle, didn’t it?…
Adam’s Rib (1949) March 3rd, 11:30AM EST Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy starred in nine films together, some of them quite good (1942’s Woman of the Year, incidentally their first on-screen pairing), some quite forgettable (the same year’s Keeper of the Flame, anyone?), and still others slightly overrated (1967’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, incidentally…
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) Airing 6:00PM EST Some of the first classic films I ever saw were the old Shirley Temple flicks from the 1930s, when the curly-headed moppet conquered Hollywood and the hearts of millions to become one of the first true cinematic superstars. I loved the innocent, precocious youngsters Temple excelled…
True Classics 