You know how sometimes you read something, and then something tangentially related to what you’ve only recently finished reading pops up somewhere, and you think, “My, that’s an odd coincidence?” That was the feeling I had earlier when I caught sight of an LA Times article entitled, “Long-lost early Orson Welles film ‘Too Much Johnson’ recovered.” A…
Screenwriter Anthony Peckham has been hired to write the script for Yucatan, based on an original story by classic movie star Steve McQueen, who died in 1980 before being able to fully realize the project. McQueen left thousands of pages of notes and even storyboards outlining his ideas, which were discovered several years ago by…
In a mere three weeks, Gone With the Wind fans raised more than $30,000 to ensure the restoration and care of five costumes from the 1939 film. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which holds the costumes, intends to restore them in time to display them (and perhaps tour other…
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