Monday, Nov. 20, 2006 An elderly doctor hangs with pretty girls while reliving his past in Wild Strawberries (1957), Helena Bonham Carter schemes to obtain a dying woman's inheritance in The Wings of the Dove (1997), Paul Newman has a court battle with James Mason in The Verdict (1982).
Monday, Nov. 13, 2006 Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon transform the 1950s into technicolor in Pleasantville (1998), teasing Rita Hayworth drives Glenn Ford to distraction in Gilda (1946), and Moscow and New York are obliterated by H-bombs in Fail-Safe (1964). We love happy endings.
Monday, Nov. 6, 2006 Unless you favor endless carnage in Iraq, and unless you favor the torture and unlimited imprisonment without trial of foreign nationals, and unless you approve of Republican corruption and hypocrisy, and unless you want those making 40K a year paying a larger percentage of their salary in taxes than those making 120K a year, and unless you wish Republicans to gerrymander their way toward perpetual control of the House, I suggest you vote for Democrats today.
Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen are threatened by a trenchcoat-wearing she-man in Dressed to Kill (1980), Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth compete for the attention of daredevil pilot and big man on campus Cary Grant in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), and a man-beast holds hottie Josette Day captive in Beauty and the Beast (1946).