This is the grave of Donald Meek. Born in 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland, Meek spent the first part of his growing up there before the family came to Canada in the early 1890s. He was a tiny boy and got into performing, specifically as an...
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Here is the list of movies I watched this year. And I mean movies. I don't want TV. By and large, I find the modern TV revolution tremendously frustrating. Why.
This is the grave of Teresa Wright, as well as the remains of other good people who left their bodies to the Yale University School of Medicine for research purposes.
This is the grave of John Cassavetes. Born in 1929 in New York, Cassavetes grew up in a Greek family. In fact, they moved back to Greece shortly after his birth and didn't return to the U.S. until 1936, at which time John did not...
CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 95 I have to admit that I am not into what I call "that British shit," by which I mean TV.
This is the grave of Spencer Tracy. Born in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tracy grew up fairly well off there. His mom came from money and his dad had a.
Brahim Haggiag (center, with arm outstretched) as revolutionary leader Ali La Pointe in a scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1965). Photo courtesy of British Film Institute/Rialto Pictures. A commenter mentioned this the other. A while back The New Republic put together a...
This is the grave of James Wong Howe. Born in Taishan, Canton Province, China in 1899, Wong Tung Jim grew up mostly in the United States. Shortly after his birth,.
This is the grave of Dom DeLuise. Born in 1933 in New York City, Dominick DeLuise grew up in an Italian-American household, which you all already knew, I mean his.
This is the grave of Burt Reynolds. Born in 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, Reynolds grew up all over the place because his father was in the Army. Eventually, his father left the military and became a police chief in Florida, which where Reynolds went to...
This is the grave of Walter Matthau. Born in 1920, Walter Matthow (don't know why you'd change your name a bit from that), grew up in the Jewish immigrant community.
This is the grave of Bruno Frank. Born in 1887 in Stuttgart, Germany, Frank grew up there in a prominent family. Both his father and grandfather were bankers, but this.