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Marilyn Monroe on Her 100th Birthday

May 30, 2026May 24, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 1 Comment American icons, Andrew Wilson, celebrity biography, celebrity culture, classic Hollywood, film history, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Golden Age Hollywood, hollywood history, I Wanna Be Loved By You, Joe DiMaggio, John F. Kennedy, Kim Kardashian, Marilyn Monroe, Norman Mailer, Playboy, Pop Culture, Robert Kennedy, Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch

Andrew Wilson discusses his new biography of the ultimate 20th century icon

Remembering Legendary Film Reviewer Rex Reed

May 12, 2026May 13, 2026 Ken Kurson 0 Comments American cultural criticism, Andrew Neel, Andrew Sarris, Ava Gardner, Broadway lunches, Broadway theater, critic obituaries, cultural criticism, Drew Grant, film criticism, film journalism, film reviewing, Goat movie, Hollywood gossip, hollywood history, Identity Thief, Jesse Oxfeld, Jill Krementz, journalism memoir, Larry King, Lost in America, magazine journalism, media criticism, Melissa McCarthy controversy, movie critics, New Journalism, New York film critics, New York media, New York Observer, Observer history, old Hollywood, Peter Kaplan, Peter Travers, Rex Reed, Richard Corliss, Toronto Film Festival

His work at the New York Observer was often salt and vinegar, but also often crisp

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Jeffrey Epstein, Meet Pierce Morehouse Patchett

March 5, 2026March 10, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments 1990s Cinema, Abuse Of Power, academy awards 1998, blackmail, brian helgeland, bud white, crime films, cultural criticism, Curtis Hanson, Danny DeVito, david strathairn, ed exley, elite corruption, ellis loew, epstein files, epstein scandal, film analysis, film noir, Guy Pearce, hollywood corruption, hollywood history, hollywood mythology, hollywood noir revival, hollywood scandals, james ellroy, Jeffrey Epstein, justice and corruption, kompromat, kompromat politics, la confidential, los angeles history, neo noir, noir cinema, noir literature, organized vice, pierce morehouse patchett, political corruption, power and impunity, ron rifkin, Russell Crowe, sex trafficking, sid hudgens

‘L.A. Confidential’ forecast some of the network of abuse and how we feel about it

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The Last Jackass Claims To Be Their Best

June 27, 2026July 1, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Johnny Knoxville and crew in a butt-stuffing swansong

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The Cruelty of Nice Minnesota Folks

June 26, 2026July 1, 2026 William Schwartz 0

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Run, Don’t Walk To See a One-Man, Three-Hour Biopic of French Poet Arthur Rimbaud, Really

June 25, 2026June 29, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 1

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Thrilling, Funny, and Sad Tales of Modern Manhood

June 25, 2026June 29, 2026 Jake Harris 0

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