True Classics Limericks - Part Deux

These are yet more entries in theTrue Classics Limerick Contest. Click HERE and check out all of the fun and  fabulous entries!(I just can't help myself!)The ApartmentA man with a key had appealTo his boss - for his love nest - that heel!But he loved the operatorOf the corporate elevatorSo for her, he'd just shut up and deal.Blazing SaddlesWestern dinners are made over coalAnd cowboys eat beans in a bowl.Who...

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True Classics Movie Limerick Contest: My Inner Poet Says: Sunset Boulevard

This is my entry in True Classics Limerick Contest. Click HERE and check out all of the fun and  fabulous entries!Sunset BoulevardA Joe who couldn't pay for his carCrashed a Sunset crib quite bizarre.The mistress was spunky,But he mocked her monkey,So she plugged him for dissing a star.OOPS!(Sorry Norm...

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Taking the Long Way To...Gary Cooper

Yup, I've been a real chump about appreciating Gary Cooper. It took me long enough, but, finally, here I am - just loving the man.It's really not my fault. My first introduction to Gary was his work during the 1950s, the time when Hollywood starred its aging leading men with young female stars and didn't think the world would think it was icky. First up was 1957's "Love in the Afternoon." Now, I just adored Audrey Hepburn as the romantic young heroine,...

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Broadway Greats Via The Silver Screen

Broadway vs. Hollywood - it's always been a case of apple and oranges. Hollywood stars don't always shine as brightly on the stage and stage legends don't always make the grade on the screen and whichever you prefer,  it's always a matter of taste. However, there is one thing the movies have over the stage and that is permanence. After a great stage show, it all becomes just a memory. Once that performance is filmed it lasts, one hopes,...

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Mary Astor: The Prisoner of Moorcrest

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess whose mean father and evil mother worked her to the bone, lived off her earnings and kept her a prisoner in a castle called Moorcrest in a place called Hollywood. Sounds a little "Jane Eyre" and "Cinderella" with a dash of "Rapunzel." But, this is no fairly tale and the princess was Mary Astor.Beautiful Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke) was the daughter of teachers who didn't really want...

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