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Below is a list of my favorite costume movie and television productions about the Golden Age of Hollywood (in chronological order of release): ( Collapse )

Below is a list of my favorite movies about Hollywood (in chronological order): ( Collapse )

"THE CAT'S MEOW" (2001) Review

There have been many accounts of the infamous November 1924 cruise held aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht, in honor of Hollywood producer Thomas H. Ince's birthday. But the biggest . . . and probably the most fictionalized account was featured in "THE CAT'S MEOW", Peter Bogdanovich's adaptation of screenwriter Steven Peros' stage play. ( Collapse )

Below are images from "THE CAT'S MEOW", Peter Bogdanovitch's 2001 fictionalized account of a famous weekend yacht party in 1920's Hollywood. Kirsten Dunst, Edward Hermann, Eddie Izzard and Cary Elwes starred: ( Collapse )

In acknowledgment of the recent Presidential Election, below is a list of my favorite movie and television productions about U.S. Presidents - historical and fictional: ( Collapse )

"THE GREAT GATSBY" (1974) Review

Many years have passed since I last saw "THE GREAT GATSBY", the 1974 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel. Many years. I must have been in my twenties when I last viewed the movie on television. With the release of Baz Luhrmann's new adaptation, I found myself curious to see how this 40 year-old movie still held up. ( Collapse )

Below are images from "THE GREAT GATSBY", the 1974 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel. Directed by Jack Clayton, the movie starred Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and Sam Waterson: ( Collapse )

Below are images from the 1988 comedy, "BIG BUSINESS". Loosely based upon William Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" and directed by Jim Abrahams, the movie starred Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin: ( Collapse )

"BIG BUSINESS" (1988) Review

Between the mid 1980s and the early 1990s, Bette Midler was something of a box office power house for the Disney Studios. The latter released a good deal of her movies through one of its distribution labels, Touchstone Pictures. And one of those movie was the 1988 comedy that she co-starred with Lily Tomlin called "BIG BUSINESS". ( Collapse )

Below is my current list of favorite movies set in the 1920s: ( Collapse )