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Only 83 films have won Best Picture to date and the general sentiment is that winning the big prize ensures that your film will have a place among the classics. Here are 10 films that won the grand prize that are not considered classics today: 10. The Broadway Melody, 1929 Since sound was introduced into [...]
Posted by Orrin Konheim on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Academy Award for Best Director, Actor, America, American cinema, American film directors, Around the World In 80 Days, arsenic, arsenic and old lace, assistant, Atlantic City, Cannes film festival, Carol Reed, Cecille B. DeMille, Cesar Romero, Charles Coburn, Charles Dickens, china, Dances with Wolves, Dennis Schwartz, director, eccentric free-spirited professor, Elizabeth Taylor, Entertainment_Culture, film historian, films, Forrest Gump, Frank Capra, Frank Sinatra, Funny Girl, George Kaufman, India, Irene Dunne, It's a Wonderful Life, John Ford, John Huston, King, Louis B. Mayer, Marlene Dietrich, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM head, Mike Todd, Moss Hart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mrs. Miniver, National Society of Film Critics, Oklahoma, On Golden Pond, Orrin Konheim, Oscar, Pakistan, producer, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds, restless newspaper editor, Richard Dix, Roger Ebert, Sound film, Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, studio head, Susan Stark, Thailand, the 1924 Olympics, The Broadway Melody, The English Patient, The Golden Globes, The Greatest Show on Earth, the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Oscars, the Pulitzer-prize, The Third Man, third Oscar, Tim Dirks, United Kingdom, United States, Washington, winston churchill, Wonderful Life, You Can't Take It With You
Without conflict there is no drama and without Christmas villains there wouldn’t be dozens of holiday themed television specials and motion pictures. Christmas villains come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Most of them start out as not get the meaning of it all, but through a set of circumstances they repent and end up [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, December 20, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Holidays, Movies, Television · Tagged a christmas carol, Advertising characters, Alan Richman, Alastair Sim, Albert Finney, author, Back to the Future, Bedford Falls, Bill Murray, Boris Badenov, Boris Karloff, Burgermeister Meisterburger, Charles Dickens, Christ Columbus, Christian folklore, Christmas, Christmas films, Christmas party, Christmas television specials, Daniel Stern, Dick Shawn, die hard, director, Dr. Seuss, drew barrymore, Ebenezer Scrooge, electric stair chair, Emmys, Entertainment_Culture, executive producer, famed horror actor, favorite director, film, George Bailey, George C. Scott, George Irving, gremlins, halloween, Hans Gruber, Harvey Fierstein, Heat & Snow Miser, Home Alone, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Hyde, It's a Wonderful Life, Jack Frost, Jack Frost II, Jekyll, Jim Carrey, Joe Pesci, John Hughes, John McClane, Kesley Grammer, Kris Kringle, L. Frank Baum, Lionel Barrymore, Magoo, Martin Short, Marty McFly, mayor, Michael McKean, Mr. Magoo, Oz, Patrick Stewart, Paul Frees, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Professor, Rankin/Bass, Reginald Owen, Rick Bitzelberger, Santa Claus, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Santa Clause Conquers the Martians, scrooge, Seuss, Snape, Stephen Spielberg, Takagi, The Grinch, The Grinch Grinches the Cat In The Hat, The Martians, Theodor Geisel, Tim Allen, USD, venerable cartoon voice artist, Whoville, writer
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Posted by Brian Douglas on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, History · Tagged Abie Maldowitz, Al Capone, Alcatraz Island, America, American folklore, Anna Philbrick, Bayshore Highway, Belle Fourche, Bill Hickock, body shoot, bullock hotel, Butcher, California, Charles Dickens, civil war, Deadwood, disruptive spirit name Butcher, eastern state penitentiary, Energy, Folklore, Ghost, Ghost hunting, ghostly encounter, ghosts, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Gorgas Library, handsome piano player, haunt, Haunted house, hauntings, Helena, intelligent haunting, intelligent hauntings, Iron Gag, Jason’s Shrine, John Contina, Kentucky, Kreischer Mansion, lady in blue, lemp brewery, lemp mansion, life magazine, lizzie borden, Louisville, Mad Chair, Marine View Hotel, Mary Ellen, Missouri, Montana, moss beach distillery, negative energy, New York, New York City, Old Lemp Brewery, paranormal, paranormal activitiy, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pseudoscience, residual haunting, resiudal hauntings, san francisco, San Jose, Sarah Winchester, seth bullock, Sheriff, Smith Hall, Sol Star, South Dakota, spirit, spirits, St. Louis, staten island, Tuberculosis hospital, U.S. military, United States, university of alabama, warehouse Bullock, waverly hills, waverly hills saniarium, winchester, winchester mystery house, winchester rifles
For every great work of art, literature, or architecture that gets completed, there are probably just as many that are abandoned and left unfinished because of wars, political strife, lack of funding, or the death of the artist. Most of these works are lost and forgotten, but some, by masters like Da Vinci and Mozart, [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Monday, September 28, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Art, History · Tagged Art, artists, artwork, Bruce Lee, Charles Dickens, coleridge, davinci, Dennis Hopper, First Rays of the New Rising Sun, Game of Death, George Washington, gran cavallo, History, jimi hendrix, kubla hhan, Kubla Khan, Literature, mozart, Music, orson welles, Palace of Soviets, poem, requiem, Sagrada Familia, The mystery of Edwin Drood, the other side of the wind, Unfinished works of art, works of art, writers
Ever since writing has been known to man, literature as become an extremely important part of everyday life, even for those who aren’t writers. Literature allows people to express their thoughts and feelings, and then have others read them, take it in, and draw their own conclusions and thoughts. As a writer myself, it’s definitely [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Literature · Tagged albert camus, answered prayers, authors, Books, Canterbury Tales, Charles Dickens, death, Geoffrey Chaucer, history of the Peloponnesian War, Jane Austen, Kubla Khan, Literature, Mark Twain, Samuel Coleridge, sanditon, The Aeneid, The first man, The Mysterious Stranger, The mystery of Edwin Drood, Thucydides, Top 10 Unfinished Works of Literature, truman, truman capote, Virgil