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Bill Newcott

It's Labor Day Weekend, the unofficial end of the summer movie season. Much of the season's grownup fare is still in theaters, plus there are four new films that are worthy of your attention this weekend, too.
Almost from the moment I Tweeted a photo from my chat with the Australian actor Eric Bana last week, I've been hearing from various women around the office who, for lack of a better analogy, are melting like butter on a hot stack of pancakes over the man's hunkiness (I guess I'm not actually…
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He's played memorable supporting roles in more than 160 movies-and was even nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar after costarring with a pig in Babe.
The Fourth of July usually brings TV reruns of Yankee Doodle Dandy, with James Cagney hoofing up a storm as uberpatriot-composer George M. Cohan. It's a great film directed by Michael Curtiz, but may I direct your attention to another red white and blue epic, directed by Curtiz the following year,…
Peter Fonda still remembers the day he discovered that his legendary dad Henry-an outspoken liberal who lived and breathed the populist themes of his classic film The Grapes of Wrath-had been a Republican.
My morning routine involves getting to my office around 7 a.m., sitting down with a cup of coffee and cranking up my record player. Today I slipped Frank Sinatra's post-retirement album, Ol' Blue Eyes is Back, out of its sleeve and gave 'er a spin.
For fans of daytime television, it was quite an afternoon at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History here in Washington, D.C., home to such cultural artifacts as the ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz.
For most of us, Bob Hope was that kinda creaky guy who did awkward old-timey standup comedy while people like Steve Martin and Richard Pryor were changing the world.
I'm counting down the days until May 15, the night I get to introduce four great Movies for Grownups with Robert Osborne on TCM. Here's today's trivia bit about one of the movies we're showing:
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