To link a pair of Hollywood actors not only through the roles they’ve played and the costars to whom they’re connected; and to do so through the fact that one of them was born and the other one died on this! very! day!; and to also connect the relatively small criteria that one of these [...]

Some day, perhaps, Hollywood will devise an awards ceremony to honor all of those noble filmmakers who toil, day in and day out, turning in respectable and honored work that just. doesn’t. cut it. And I’m not talking about the journeymen of film like Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman who have, over time, transcended their [...]

It’s hard for anyone in Hollywood to know or predict the whimsical winds of public fascination. Each year, hundreds of starry-eyed actors, writers, singers, skanks and Second Assistant Prop Masters flock to the streets of Studio City, Hollywood, Glendale, Century City and Burbank, all in the hopes of splashing down into the hearts and collective [...]

Yesterday Matt at the ever-delightful Culture kills… wait, I mean cutlery. blog featured a unique take on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon bit in which he linked about 16 celebrities together, mostly by virtue of them having the same birthday. Nicely done!
And because one good blog-turn deserves another – even though I have no [...]

Today the super-spectacular Film Experience Blog is hosting an Action Heroine blog-a-thon, which should be immediately visited and read and digested and commented upon and ejected throughout the bloguverse like so many bullet casings from Sarah Connor’s automatic rifle.
I thought I’d use the opportunity to bring back Womb to Tomb – and to point out [...]

Sentimentality Alert! Today’s post contains liberal doses of nostalgia with a sprinkling of schmaltz. Please feel free to skip it and move on to something a little snarkier if you’re not in the mood.
Still hanging around? Good for you.
On this day, November 6th, Ethan Hawke was born. The well-tousled actor made a big splash [...]

Sometimes the delicate strands of birth and death cross even closer than we’d like to contemplate – just consider today’s Womb to Tomb in which a pair of well-traveled movie actors are connected in the tiny karmic space of only three classic cinematic properties:
On this day, July 6th, William Schallert was born. This prolific character [...]