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ADVERTISEMENT While today it is generally more common for an actor to entertain soldiers rather than be one, there was a time when even fame and stardom was not enough to keep some people out of war. As a result, during the Second World War a number of actors served in the armed forces—most through [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Sunday, November 11, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, Military, People · Tagged Actors, Art Carney, Audie Murphy, Charles Durning, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., eddie albert, James Arness, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin, Mel Brooks, Russell Johnson, Second World War, U.S. military, United States military, WWII, WWII soldiers
Whether it was Marty McFly, Gordon Gekko, the Terminator, Jake La Motta, the working girl (Melanie Griffith), or sharp-shooter Jimmy Chitwood, the 1980’s was a memorable decade of iconic heroes, novel advances in technology, and the cementation of blockbuster culture at the movies. Hollywood has always been a fast-moving town with new sets of winners [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged American film directors, Back to the Future, Barry Levinson, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, brazil, Crimes and Misdemeanors, David Lynch, Dead Poets’ Society, Do the Right Thing, film, gandhi, Gordon Gekko, Jake La Motta, James Cameron, Jimmy Chitwood, Martin Scorsese, Marty McFly, Mel Brooks, Melanie Griffith, Monty Python, Oliver Stone, Peter Weir, Platoon, Richard Attenborough, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis, Roger Ebert, Romancing the Stone, Spike Lee, Stephen Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, Terry Gilliam, The Abyss, The color Purple, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Time Bandits, Twin Peaks, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, woody allen
