Articles tagged with: Shirley MacLaine
By Richard von Busack
So infectious the CDC ought to be notified, the Richard Linklater comedy Bernie—an easy pick for top ten of 2012—is loaded with Texas brio. (Bernie tickets and showtimes here.)
Bernie (Jack Black) is …
By Richard von Busack
Even if it turns out she has only had one life, Shirley MacLaine has made it count. Appearing Friday, Sep 23 at the Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa, MacLaine is hosting …
Originally branded “a dirty fairy tale,” Billy Wilder’s The Apartment combines irony, burlesque, soap opera, and truth into a morality play whose message is “be a mensch,” a Yiddish term for a human being. Filmed …
In 1933-1934, Lillian Hellman’s prizewinning play about slander and lesbianism, The Children’s Hour, was a sensational shocker. When Sam Goldwyn’s film adaptation of the drama, entitled These Three, was released in 1936, it was considerably …
The saddest movies of all time can be a difficult list to conjure since what some viewers find moving, others find sappy and sentimental. But every so often a film comes along that seems to …
