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Adrienne Barbeau
Adrienne Barbeau began appearing in local theater productions as a teenager in San Jose. As a struggling young actress in New York, she earned the rent as a go-go dancer. Her big break came when she joined the cast of Broadway's original Fiddler on the Roof, which starred Zero Mostel as Tevye and Bea Arthur as Yente, the Matchmaker. Barbeau was later nominated for a Tony, playing Betty Rizzo in the original Broadway cast of Grease. From 1972-78, Arthur and Barbeau worked together on the hit Read more [...]
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Ray Harryhausen
Raymond Frederick Harryhausen was born on the 29th June 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA, to parents Fred and Martha. He had a passion, which has never abated, for dinosaurs and anything fantasy. His parents both encouraged him to pursue what he wanted to, even if the chosen career wasn’t what they would have probably considered usual. Ray commented, ‘My obsession with fantasy has been lifelong, growing during my formative years and being taken to new heights by novels, paintings Read more [...]
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The Thing
The scene is a distant Arctic missile base, where a UFO has crashed. The investigating scientists discover that the circular craft has melted its way into the ice, which has frozen up again. While attempting to recover the ship, Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) accidently explodes the vessel, but the pilot—at least, what seems to be the pilot—remains frozen in a block of ice. The body is taken to base headquarters, where it is inadvertently thawed out by an electric blanket. The alien Read more [...]
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
In this sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, we catch up with young Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson), now a bit older and getting into all kinds of mischief. Sean’s mom (Kristin Davis) and step-dad Hank (Dwayne Johnson) try to pry the reason for his bad behavior out of the recalcitrant teen, and Hank finally manages to get the answer: Sean is trying to piece together the mystery of his missing grandfather, Alexander Anderson (Michael Caine), who went searching for a mysterious island Read more [...]
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Producer Arthur Gardner
Arthur Gardner is grasping for a memory that seems to lie just out of reach. The longtime Hollywood producer looks at a photo on the wall, gazes at his desk then stares back up at the wall. But prompted by a reporter's question about Edward G. Robinson, the star of Gardner's 1953 police procedural “Vice Squad,” his eyes suddenly light up. “Eddie Robinson? Oh, he was a picnic,” Gardner said as he excitedly recalled the Golden Age actor known for playing gangster parts. “Of course, Read more [...]
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Adrienne Barbeau
Posted on 21 February 2012
Adrienne Barbeau began appearing in local theater productions as a teenager in San Jose. As a struggling young actress in New York, she earned the rent as a go-go dancer. Her big break came when she joined the cast of Broadway's original Fiddler on the Roof, which starred Zero Mostel as Tevye and Bea Arthur as Yente, the Matchmaker. Barbeau was later nominated for a Tony, playing Betty Rizzo in the original Broadway cast of Grease. From 1972-78, Arthur and Barbeau worked together on the hit Read more [...]
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Ray Harryhausen
Posted on 21 February 2012
Raymond Frederick Harryhausen was born on the 29th June 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA, to parents Fred and Martha.
He had a passion, which has never abated, for dinosaurs and anything fantasy.
His parents both encouraged him to pursue what he wanted to, even if the chosen career wasn’t what they would have probably considered usual. Ray commented, ‘My obsession with fantasy has been lifelong, growing during my formative years and being taken to new heights by novels, paintings Read more [...]
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The Thing
Posted on 21 February 2012
The scene is a distant Arctic missile base, where a UFO has crashed. The investigating scientists discover that the circular craft has melted its way into the ice, which has frozen up again. While attempting to recover the ship, Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) accidently explodes the vessel, but the pilot—at least, what seems to be the pilot—remains frozen in a block of ice. The body is taken to base headquarters, where it is inadvertently thawed out by an electric blanket. The alien Read more [...]
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Posted on 21 February 2012
In this sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, we catch up with young Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson), now a bit older and getting into all kinds of mischief. Sean’s mom (Kristin Davis) and step-dad Hank (Dwayne Johnson) try to pry the reason for his bad behavior out of the recalcitrant teen, and Hank finally manages to get the answer: Sean is trying to piece together the mystery of his missing grandfather, Alexander Anderson (Michael Caine), who went searching for a mysterious island Read more [...]
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Producer Arthur Gardner
Posted on 21 February 2012
Arthur Gardner is grasping for a memory that seems to lie just out of reach. The longtime Hollywood producer looks at a photo on the wall, gazes at his desk then stares back up at the wall. But prompted by a reporter's question about Edward G. Robinson, the star of Gardner's 1953 police procedural “Vice Squad,” his eyes suddenly light up.
“Eddie Robinson? Oh, he was a picnic,” Gardner said as he excitedly recalled the Golden Age actor known for playing gangster parts. “Of course, Read more [...]
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Movie Promotions At The Comic Con In India
Posted on 20 February 2012
So clearly, there's a lot of money to be made here. The comic conventions don't just need to involve publishers, they need to go beyond that," Jatin Verma, founder, Comic Con India.
Delhi's second Comic Convention once again saw a huddle of comic enthusiasts in Dilli Haat, with a Freddy Kruger on the prowl, an overweight Superman binging on kulfiand a sweatshirt-clad Darth Vader saying "cheese" along with his fans. What stood out even more than the latter three (who were obviously comic-fans Read more [...]
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Review: ‘The Tunnel’ At Little Rock Horror Picture Show
Posted on 20 February 2012
"The Curtain," the first opening short of Saturday night's Little Rock Horror Picture Show Theater B feature, debuted at Austin's annual Fantastic Fest film festival — known mostly for irreverent, indie horror, sci-fi, and other nerdy, niche-genre offerings. Upon discovering a mysterious locked shower curtain in their new apartment, a deadbeat boyfriend and his cruel control-freak girlfriend soon discover the curtain helps contain a demon in their bathtub, leftover from an exorcism that took Read more [...]
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