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In the 50s and early 60s, who would have dreamed that Leslie Neilsen, the dashing young leading man best known to television audiences as Swamp Fox on...
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Find out more about Doug: Doug Krentzlin is a professional freelance writer, guest lecturer and actor living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his cats, Buffy and Angel. Doug covers the classics of television, including comedies, dramas, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation and literary adaptations. He has also had articles published in the New York Post and Movie Maker Magazine. Doug can be reached here. |
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With the collapse of the studio system, the death of the censorship code and the advent of color television, Hollywood went through a lot of odd...
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Political correctness is to comedy what Kryptonite is to Superman. Nothing buzzkills a laugh more than someone (usually a white liberal) insisting...
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It was with great sadness that it was learned that British actor Edward Woodward passed away yesterday at age 79. For cinemaphiles, Woodward will be...
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When Jeremy Brett made his debut as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal detective Sherlock Holmes in Granada Television’s The Adventures of...
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It’s a pity MTV’s computer animated Spider-Man series isn’t better known because, all in all, it was by far the best rendition of...
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Unlike other anthology shows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits almost never did comedies. The one exception...
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Howard Hawks’ classic western Rio Bravo (1959), starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, has been remade many times. Hawks redid it himself seven...
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After serving an apprenticeship with the Coen Brothers as their cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld went on to direct some very quirky and off-beat...
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For those unfamiliar with the term, a “shaggy dog story” is a joke with an elaborate set-up and a non-sequester punch line that, more...
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