Gunsmoke is one of the most beloved shows in television history. The series ran on CBS from September 10, 1955 to March 31, 1975 for 635 episodes. Gunsmoke actually began as a radio show in 1952 and remained on the…
Twister is now one of my favorite pointless movies of all time. The plot is non-existent and the characters have absolutely no substance, but it doesn’t matter. The picture and sound on Warner Brothers’ recently released two-disc special edition will…
Tina Sinatra recently said of her father, “Dad had no interest in writing a memoir: “What good would that do?” he’d say. “My life and music are the whole of me.” Of course, he was right. Film was the only…
Genealogy is a fascinating thing. The more you learn, the more you realize we are all interconnected in ways that most of us never would have imagined. In 2006, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. a Harvard professor and writer served…
Rawhide premiered on January 9, 1959 on CBS and ran until January 4, 1966. The series was produced by Charles Marquis Warren, who also produced several early episodes of Gunsmoke. Warren used his 1958 film Cattle Empire as the basis…
I never watched The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles when it began airing on television back in 1992. Now, having watched the series, repackaged as a series of films for the DVD release, I regret I didn’t watch the show much…
Sometimes you come across the kind of movie that leaves you completely spent and emotionally drained but glad to have seen it–the film is the kind of movie you’d volunteer to go see over and over again, but you recommend…
Hilary Swank’s recent film career is sort of like a championship runner; they either win the gold medal or finish completely out of the top three. In 2000, at the age of 26, Swank won an Oscar for Best Actress…
I’m very little! You cheat very big! –Short Round After the colossal success of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Speilberg and George Lucas teamed up again in 1984, to create yet another Indiana Jones adventure. Maligned by fans and…
Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? –Indiana Jones On the beaches of Hawaii in the summer of 1977, George Lucas and “director for hire” Steven Spielberg decided to make an adventure movie that hearkened back to the old, cheaply…